our investigative unit first exposed the district attorney jeff rosen of santa clara county directedaltered giving extra time off to employees to make up for a pay cut. >>> tonight a major development and a new investigation. jena has the latest development. >> reporter: for weeks, the a.g.'s office has been reviewing the case. tonight, a phone call from her office confirm the attorney general is conducting a civil investigation into district attorney jeff rosen. they wouldn't say what that includes. we then asked if the a.g. is pursuing a criminal investigation. her office would not comment. plus, more fallout. as of tonight. nine unions have sent letters to the county including identifying grievances. they say the county vial aid contracts based on what our investigation revealed. some are citing part of the contracts called the me too clause. it means if one union doesn't take the cuts it promised, others don't have to either. it could have a devastating impact on the budget. they have requested an informal grievance meeting and the engineers and scientists filed a formal grievanc

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. >> reporter: it was very embarrassing for district attorney jeff rosen and it got him into hot water when it came to light that his department was giving certain supervising attorneys who make up to $200,000 a year some free time off. the question tonight is, did the d.a. take it out on one of his employees who didn't agree with that policy and spoke out about it? >> we're talking about a retaliatory demotion. >> reporter: the santa clara county prosecutor says his bosses are punishing him for speaking out against a pay policy enacted by district attorney jeff rosen that may have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars they shouldn't have had to pay. >> the whole scheme stunk. i can't tell you it's illegal. >> reporter: but the state attorney general's office is investigating whether rosen violated the government code by giving a few top deputies including mr. sibley extra time off to make up for a 5% pay bonus they would have lost due to county budget cuts. the policy granted the attorneys weeks of administrative leave and allowed them to later cash out their unused vacation

. >> reporter: the district attorney, jeff rosen directed his d.a. to give out free time off. if an employee asked for vacati vacation time and it's changed to administrative leave, that's okay? >> yes. >> if everybody in the county did that, our budget would be totally out of control. >> reporter: a budget meant to be cut. >> welcome to the board of supervisor's meeting september 13, 2011. >> reporter: they approved sweeping cuts for employees. >> passes 4-0. >> reporter: including from child support services and the d.a.s off sfis. one cut, 5% bonus for all attorneys. >> it was unfair and unprecedented that their 5% was taken away. after long and careful thought and deliberation, i instituted a policy. >> reporter: his policy, taking time sheets and changing vacation to administrative leave, allowing employees to get paid time off and bank their vacation. that's not what these documents show. take a look. in 2011, the lead d.a.s took less than 600 hours of add min time. compare it to 2012. after the cuts it quadrupled. they are working harder in 2012 thand 2011. >> i agree w

more controversy surrounding jeff rosen, representing lead attorney, jim sibley, voting to file a grievance with the county claiming the d.a. retaliated against sibley for speaking out against altered time sheets. this 46-page grievance comes a month after our investigative unit exposed d.a. rose zen to order time sheets to be altered to give free time off. after two decades at the d.a.'s office and 2 1/2 years at lead attorney, sibley has been demoted. come monday, he will be transferred to palo alto. sibley, who lives in santa cruz, has a 14-year-old son with autism. he says, moving to palo alto means he will spend 3 hours commuting to and from work thand will take time away from his family. he claims the move is to, quote, make him pay the price for telling the truth. >> the atmosphere within the d.a.'s office over the last two years has been essentially a culture of fear. you go with what the administration is planning or you are going to pay the price for it. >> labor relations will conduct an investigation into why exactly sibley was demoted and transferred. the district attorney says

jeff rosen directed time sheets be altered giving extra time off no employees to make up for a bonus cut. tonight a major development and a new investigation. jenna broke this story and she joins us now with those developments. >> reporter: for weeks the ag's office has been reviewing the case but tonight a phone call from her office confirmed the attorney general is conducting a civil investigation into district attorney jeff rosen. now, they wouldn't say what that includes. we then asked if the ag is pursuing a criminal investigation, but her office would not comment. plus, more fallout. as of tonight nine unions have sent letters to the county, including filing grievances. they say the county violated contracts based on what our investigation revealed. some are citing a part of their contracts called the me, too clause. if one union doesn't take the cuts promised, others don't have to either, and it could have a devastating impact on the county budget. the biggest union in the county has requested an informal grievance meeting. and the union representing engineers and scientists f

more controversy this morning surrounding santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen. the union representing lead attorney jim sibley voted to file a grievance with the county late last night claiming the d.a. retaliated against sibley for speaking out about altered time sheets. the 46-page grievance comes a month after our investigative unit exposed d.a. rosen, ordered time sheets be altered to be given free time off. sibley says he sent letters to rosen asking not to receive the time off but he got it anyway. now after two decades at the d.a.'s office and 2 1/2 years as a lead attorney, sibley has been demoted and come monday will be transferred to palo alto. sibley who lives in santa cruz has a 14-year-old son with autism. he says moving to palo alto means he will spend three hours commuting to and from work and that will take time away from his family. he claims the move is to, quote, make him pay the price for telling the truth. >> the atmosphere within the d.a.'s office over the last two years has been essentially a culture of fear. you either go with what the ad

proud of the three da's and they covered it and we worked over the years with the heart power that jeff rosen referred to. when moving into the soft power i recognize we're not experts so i look to people like anne campbell, our superintendent and to cheryl there to educate us and i said this morning "i am interested what we can do as a district attorney's office to help , what we can do to help" because we recognize we're not experts. we have an expertise in certain areas dealing with consequences and accountability and we're good with that. when it comes to soft power with great collaboration we can have a support role and provide to our educators and experts what exactly can we do to assist you getting to the end that everybody talked about today and that's the only different take we would have. >> great thank you. [applause] i would like to say we need to wrap up. we have a late start and need to keep moving. i would like to say what struck me today that even though teachers and principals are in school all day addressing those things in the hallways and they're not here. we have school p

we will start with jeff rosen. [applause] he's the district attorney of santa clara county and the recognized leader in criminal justice reform. he oversees the largest prosecutor's office north of los angeles and prosecute about 40,000 cases each year, so he is on the ground. he sees it all. he is however a green bay packer fan but we will forgive him because they lost. >> you should be very happy. you won. >> next to him is richard carranza and the superintendent of san francisco unified, just started in the summer of july. prior to that he was the deputy superintendent of innovation and social justice. [applause] next to richard is nancy o'malley, district attorney for alameda county. she was appointed in 2009 and elected in 2010 and has an amazing background dealing dealing with violence against women and domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse and threat management. she's a wonderful addition to our panel so thank you nancy. [applause] next to nancy is tony smith who i loved his biobest of all and started

. >>> jeff rosen ordered some employees time sheets to be altered to give free time off and let employees bank their vacation days. they said it was to make up for bonuses some lost. the new documents showed the d.a.'s office kept their own record of how much time was given to each employee. the papers notes but no one at the county could tell us whose writing it is or who created the paperwork. we showed it to county executive, jeff smith. he says, county payroll, had no idea any of this existing. >> i would just expect a lot more from an elected d.a. who is the senior law enforcement official in the county. >>> the d.a.'s office provided us with a statement that reads, there was no second selt of books or second payroll system. the attorney general's office is civilly reviewing the administrative leave issue. out of respect for the integ grist of that process, with he will defer further process at this time. smith says he is considering assigning payroll staff from other parts of the county to oversee payroll in the office >>> world champion boxer, robert guerrero in court facing gun ch

this comes on the heels of our investigation last month, exposing the d.a., jeff rosen who ordered certain time sheets be altered giving free time off to select employees. glena? >> these documents came from the da's office, but nobody knows who's handwriting is on there. we showed the paper work to santa clara county executive jeff smith said and he says that county payrolling didn't know any of this existed. >> it means i have a whole other department that i have to baby sit. >> that's because of these documents. >> i really can't trust the da with this type of payroll system. >> you're looking at what jeff smith calls, a separate set of books, a system that measures how much time is given off to top attorneys in the d.a.'s office. >> it's an in your face, i'm going to do whatever i want, without the realization that what he's dealing with is push lick money. >> crossing out vacation and sick time requests and changing them to administrative leave allowing attorneys to bank days off to use or cash out later. in april rosen told us it was to make up for a 5% bonus. >> if you look on my wa

james romeli from keene and jeff rosen at the nymex talking energy and other things as well. day. what kind of order flow -- what did you see here today? >> when things started in asia and carried through to europe, it looked like it was going to be kind of ugly, but it already tempered itself a bit as we got to the opening. and even though we were ugly on the opening and dead red most of the way, it quickly settled down, bill. and you had a sense pretty quickly that they were going to stabilize here and we were going to get back to that buy on the dip mentality. look, the data was conflicted between manufacturing, between unemployment, between housing. >> home sales were good. >> right. >> manufacturing was not. >> right. >> speculation around the fed? >> right. so there's nothing to suggest, really, that they're going to derail what's been happening. so it seemed like, what if this is going to be one of those opportunities. >> so what about that? james romelli, we knew that china was slowing down. the manufacturing report seemed to take many by surprise, causing that huge m

nbc news national investigative correspondent jeff rosen spoke to two of the neighbors with their own disturbing stories. >> reporter: this man lives just a few doors down. he told us in 2011 his sister saw a woman holding a child in the house. and banging on the window for help. >> i called the cops. 20, 30 minutes around the cops pulled up. they pounded a good 20 times. they was there five, eight minutes. no answer. they shine the light inside the driveway. see the windows are boarded up. got back inside the squad car and left. >> reporter: that was it? >> that was it. >> reporter: last july another neighbor noticed another disturbing sight there. >> my granddaughter told me about the naked lady crawling on her hands and knees back there in the backyard. >> reporter: she says she called the police but they never came. tuesday police were adamant, they've never been called to the house for those reasons. >> well, nbc's savannah guthrie asked cleveland police chief michael mcgrath about those calls, if they did occur. let's listen to his response. >> we have no record of those calls c

counsel for that as well, knowing eric holder was involved in seeking a warrant against fox reporter jeff rosenf. i think it's a total conflict of interest in there we have to be determined to stop these crimes. >> reporter: mr. obama is dealing with a sexual assault scandal in the military, given giving republicans a new line of attack in there i think the constellation of these scandals ongoing takes away from the president's authority to lead the nation. >> reporter: immigration reform, a top priority for the president, is headed to the senate floor after winning committee approval, but it's not clear there are 60 votes to stop a republican filibuster and his new push to close the kwaut mo fa guantonomo fa accept it is raising questions. >> i want to lift the transfers from gitmo. >> dan lothian is at the white house this morning. so how does the president plan to change the conversation? >> reporter: well, i think, you know, you have seen that happening several weeks where if president goes out on the road and juz does job events, where he is focusing lifting up the middle class. that will

rosen whose records were monitored if you will. >> that's right. i have to disagree with my friend jefftorney general to be asked to do this meeting. this meeting, itself, is a bit of a spin. i think it is designed to give cover for the president. this is not a difficult question and they shouldn't have done these investigations in this way. they shouldn't have gone on a fishing expedition against the associated press. they shouldn't have called rosen a possible coconspirator to a crime. those are bright lines that existed and they were blown away by this administration. you have an attorney general accused in the very least of being misleading and possibly lying before the committee. i'm not ready to say that he did lie. but he's also an attorney general who said that he doesn't recall he had any role in the rosen matter. that appears to be untrue. he's also an attorney general whose role in monitoring and supervising this department on this critical issue is under attack for good reason. i mean, what happened in this case, it's not that there's never been such investigations but this,