High-profile scandals are keeping Costa Mesa-based media consultant Michelle Jordan busy. The British-born Jordan is the spokeswoman for Karin Stanford, the former Rainbow/Push Coalition official who is taking the Rev. Jesse Jackson to court over child support and visitation issues. Jordan arranged Stanford’s headline-grabbing Aug. 17 interview with Connie Chung on ABC’s “20/20.” Jordan has also appeared as a media strategist on Fox News Channel, opining on the Gary Condit-Chandra Levy imbroglio Hot lines: The state says crime dropped 3% in Orange County last year, but it was up 9% in Newport Beach. What’s going on along the Gold Coast? A surge in cell-phone thefts, the Daily Pilot reported UCI athletic director Dan Guerrero got together with San Diego Padres’ prez Larry Lucchino recently to compare notes on their respective ballpark projects. Guerrero said it was a terrific session. Both parks stress intimacy, greenbelts and quirks. The big difference? UCI’s park, scheduled to debut along with a new baseball team in January, is costing about $3.5 million. That’s a rounding error for the Padres’ stalled stadium, whose total price tag is projected at close to a half billion. The meeting was initiated by UCI chancellor Ralph Cicerone, a Padres’ fan and friend of team owner (and UC Regent) John Moores
…Kicking back at Fleming’s in Fashion Island: The Mighty Ducks’ Paul Kariya, former teammate Teemu Selanne and the Rangers’ David Karpa. Word is Kariya bought Sign of the times: Rajiv Viyas counted fewer than 40 persons at the Personal Finance Conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Irvine last month, half the crowd that attended the same event last year in Tampa. In Florida the bulletin board was filled with job postings; this time there was no board, and reporters were chasing down editors to ask about job openings. Similarly, attendance at the SABEW Technology Conference in Raleigh-Durham in June drew about 40, compared with 100 at last year’s event in Irvine. “I guess we track the NASDAQ,” said SABEW official and OC Register biz columnist Jon Lansner Checking in at close to nine pounds, Will Kruper, to Lacee and Richard Kruper of CenSource The OC Weekly was first to get its hands on ambassador-to-Spain nominee George Argyros’ federal financial disclosure report, which puts his net worth in a range of $600 million to more than $1.6 billion. If the Weekly were as generous with attribution as we are, it would have acknowledged that three weeks earlier, without benefit of the yet-to-be-released disclosure report, the OCBJ’s first-ever “rich list” effectively nailed it, estimating Argyros’ wealth at $1 billion.
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