The Potential FBI Case Against Karen Velie

Aaron Ochs
13 min readApr 22, 2020

EDITOR’S NOTE: Since CalCoastNews reported on March 25 that District 3 Supervisor Adam Hill’s home was searched by the FBI, several anonymous accounts and key evidence linked to CCN co-founder Karen Velie were removed. Concerned that she was potentially spoliating evidence during a criminal investigation, I decided to release my unredacted report on Velie for public consumption.

CalCoastNews co-founder and publisher Karen Velie engaged in abuse of process and coercion in sweeping and extensive faction, oftentimes weaponizing her website CalCoastNews.com to…

Aaron Ochs

Author, artist, advocate and entrepreneur from Morro Bay, California.