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Thu Feb 6, 2020, 12:11 AM Feb 2020

Ex-Los Angeles sheriff reports to prison for corruption

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has reported to prison to begin serving a three-year prison sentence for a corruption conviction, according to federal records.

Agents had been secretly looking into allegations of bribery and inmate beatings by jail guards in 2011, when Baca and his top lieutenants learned that an inmate was acting as an FBI informant.

Baca and top brass hatched an elaborate plot to hide the informant in the jail system by booking him under false names and moving him to different locations. They also tried to intimidate an FBI agent by threatening to arrest her.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ex-los-angeles-sheriff-reports-to-prison-for-corruption/ar-BBZGMFT?ocid=spartanntp

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Ex-Los Angeles sheriff reports to prison for corruption (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2020 OP
Three years isn't long enough. 2naSalit Feb 2020 #1
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