Retired captain disputes ex-Sheriff Lee Baca over charges of hiding FBI...
A federal jury of eight men and four women heard former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca say he was not aware that his deputies had hid an inmate-turned informant or that they threatened an FBI...
View ArticleFBI agent tells jury she was threatened with arrest by ex-Sheriff Lee Baca’s...
In the weeks after a cellphone planted by the FBI was discovered inside Men’s Central Jail, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, Undersheriff Paul Tanaka and other top department brass kept in...
View ArticleFBI agent in Baca corruption trial: ‘I was doing the right thing’
An FBI agent told a federal jury Tuesday that she knew she was right to investigate the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on allegations of inmate abuse inside Men’s Central Jail, because of the...
View ArticleHow a jury heard a ‘fundamentally different case’ in the re-trial of...
The deacon’s voice broke as he described a beating he witnessed through a narrow slit of Plexiglas in 2009. An inmate, handcuffed and pushed against a wall, was punched and kicked as he begged the...
View ArticleFormer Sheriff Lee Baca’s second corruption trial now in hands of jury
A federal jury began deliberating Monday in the retrial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty of obstructing justice and giving false...
View ArticleHere’s the fallout from the LA County Sheriff’s Department jail abuse scandal
In 2011, the FBI started an investigation into inmate abuse within the Men’s Central Jail, which is run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. That probe set off a scandal and attempted...
View ArticleEx-Sheriff Lee Baca’s conviction sends a message but there’s still ‘need for...
Each trial, conviction and sentence handed down to members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department since 2014 exposed deep flaws within the nation’s largest law enforcement agency of its kind,...
View ArticleEx-LA County Sheriff Lee Baca to be sentenced on jail corruption charges
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court Friday, two months after a jury found him guilty of obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from an...
View ArticleFormer LA County Sheriff Lee Baca sentenced to 3 years in jail abuse scandal
In what some called the end of a chapter in local civil rights abuse and jailhouse corruption, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who once led the largest department of its kind in the nation,...
View ArticleEx-LA undersheriff Paul Tanaka’s obstruction conviction upheld by appeal’s court
LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court panel today upheld the obstruction of justice conviction of former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who began serving a five-year prison term in...
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