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2000 Stories by Charles Rappleye

• On the Take

  published December 21, 2000

  Jesse Jerry Gardona, a special agent assigned to the anti-smuggling squad of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, will be sentenced next... More >>

• Beyond the Verdict

  published November 30, 2000

  The guilty verdicts against Rampart officers last week were immediately hailed as confirmation that there was indeed a scandal at the... More >>

• Trying for Justice

  published November 16, 2000

  Last Friday marked a milestone in the year-plus history of the citywide temblor known as the Rampart scandal. Sergeant Edward Ortiz, named by... More >>

• Gimme Some Truth

  published November 9, 2000

  The evening of April 26, 1996, was just another lousy night in the dead-end world of L.A.‘s most notorious street gang. An 18th Street regula... More >>

• Another Fine Mess

  published November 2, 2000

  One moment last week in the ninth-floor hallway of the Superior Court building downtown brought all the crosscurrents and strange alliances of... More >>

• Rampart Runneth Over

  published October 19, 2000

  Late in the afternoon of February 6, 1996, a gangbanger and midlevel hustler named Miguel Malfavon stepped onto the patio of a McDonald‘... More >>

• The Great Bicycle Race

  published August 31, 2000

  LAPD Deputy Chief Maurice Moore gave a new, official version of the bicycle demonstration that netted 71 arrests last Wednesday, more than any... More >>

• Power to the Cops

  published August 31, 2000

  The watchdog commission that oversees the LAPD conducted a formal review Tuesday of the security operations surrounding the Democratic National... More >>

• Trouble With the Truth

  published July 20, 2000

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• License To Shoot

  published July 6, 2000

  It may be true that cops are taking a beating these days in the court of public opinion, but juries still seem inclined to favor officers when... More >>

• A $500,000 Lesson

  published May 25, 2000

  Police critics say the Rampart scandal is bigger than just one division of the LAPD. But a Superior Court jury held early this month that the... More >>

• Dream Denied

  published May 18, 2000

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• Belated Indictments

  published April 20, 2000

  It was backslapping all around when the region’s top law-enforcement officials convened a news conference last week to announce the firs... More >>

• Joey Garcia Tells All

  published April 20, 2000

  On the morning of Friday, April 7, in a hushed downtown courtroom and with a bespectacled judge looking on intently, state-prison lifer Joey... More >>

• Rampart Secrets

  published April 13, 2000

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• Homies, 1; LAPD, 0

  published March 30, 2000

  With welling tears and a faltering voice, Estela Rodriguez took the podium at Immanuel Presbyterian Church Thursday night and gave thanks.... More >>

• And the Beat Goes On

  published March 16, 2000

  Photo by Ted SoquiOn February 10, just three weeks before Chief Bernard Parks presented his long-awaited Board of Inquiry report to the Police... More >>

• Tarnished Brass

  published March 2, 2000

  Photo by Tina Burch/Daily NewsAn LAPD disciplinary board ruled Monday that the captain formerly in charge of the Rampart CRASH unit should... More >>

• Burning Judge Judy

  published March 2, 2000

  To the list of jurists, prosecutors, defense attorneys and cops who ignored early warning signals of corruption at the LAPD’s Rampart station... More >>

• Harassing Homies

  published February 17, 2000

  For more than a year, the street cops of the Rampart CRASH anti-gang unit have waged a quiet but determined campaign against a gang-peace... More >>

• Disputed Confessions

  published February 10, 2000

  District Attorney Gil Garcetti is scrambling to clear dozens of defendants wrongly accused by the LAPD‘s Rampart Division, but his offic... More >>

• Good Cop, Bad Cop

  published January 20, 2000

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