SAN MATEO, Calif. (KGO) -- San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus is not going anywhere. That's the message from her exclusive interview with I-Team reporter Dan Noyes, just days after the Board of Supervisors voted, urging her to resign.
Dan Noyes: "Will you step down?" Sheriff Christina Corpus: "I will not. I am resolved - I have worked very hard to get here. I know what I've done.
I can hang my head up high." An independent audit found that Corpus had an intimate relationship with her civilian chief of staff, and that she allowed him to run the department. But now, the sheriff is coming out in the strongest way possible to say, that's not true.
Sheriff Corpus took office in January 2023 as the agent of change. But, she says resistance from what she calls "the old boys club" has been even tougher than she expected. TIMELINE: San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus investigation "I have done nothing wrong," Christina Corpus told the I-Team.
"This is an attack. It's a coup that has been in place for a while by the county executives and the Board of Supervisors." The scathing audit contends that Sheriff Corpus is having an intimate personal affair with her civilian Chief of Staff, Victor Aenlle, and that she gave control of the sheriff's department to him.
"Garbage. I say it's false," answered Corpus. "I am not having an affair with him.
I've known Victor for 17 years - 17 years. And we our colleagues, I consider him a trusted confidant, a friend. Is it because I'm a woma.