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May 21, 2013
Feds Photograph Guilty Diamond Jeweler and Accused KPMG Honcho Passing Bags of Cash
In exchange for confidential information worth of millions of dollars to him, well-to-do Encino diamond jeweler Bryan Shaw admits, he gave his tipster at KPMG a $12,000 Rolex Daytona Cosmograph watch. Shaw, of Shaw Diamond Co. located in a high-rise on Ventura Boulevard, pleaded guilty Monday to f ... More >>
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July 13, 2012
Lenny Dykstra Pleads Guilty to Bankruptcy Fraud, Money Laundering
Lenny Dykstra has more problems than Jay-Z, but it looks like maybe he's trying to put it all behind him. The baseball legend today pleaded guilty to federal allegations of bankruptcy fraud and money laundering, the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced. What did he do?
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June 28, 2012
Marijuana Dispensary Operator Bribed Former Santa Fe Springs Mayor Joseph Serrano
If, after the Bell salary scandal, you began to think of Southeast L.A. County as a hotbed of corruption, you were right. Only a week after allegations that three city officials from Cudahy, including Mayor David Silva, took bribes from someone who sought to open a marijuana dispensary in town com ... More >>
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June 22, 2012
Cudahy Mayor David Silva Among Three City Officials Who Took Bribe From Marijuana Dispensary, Says U.S. Attorney
Updated at the bottom with the juicy, 143-page criminal complaint against three allegedly "freewheeling" city scumbags. Government corruption in the small southeast city of Bell made national headlines all throughout 2010 -- even earned the Los Angeles Times a Pulitzer. And if you ask the locals, i ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Ecstasy, Marijuana, LSD Sold at Online 'Farmers Market:' Feds in L.A. Move In For The Bust
What if we were to tell you there was a place online where you could buy ecstasy, marijuana and LSD, no questions asked? You'd say, Right on! (We know our readers). Federal authorities, unfortunately, weren't as gung-ho about this particular operation, and today they announced that the so-called F ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
Medical Marijuana Ban in L.A.? City Officials Botched Regulation, Now Want Prohibition
Medical weed ban heads to City Council
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January 6, 2012
Elephant's Foot, Sea Turtle Boots, Leopard Pelt Found For Sale Online: Feds Make Busts
This is news that will surely send PETA members into kiniptions that will require the aid of first responders. The U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. today announced they've filed charges against a dozen people for selling endangered animals and related clothing, including boots made out of sea turtle ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Lee Baca, L.A. County Sheriff, Pissed That FBI Smuggled Cellphone Into His Jail: Shouldn't he be Worried About Inmate Beatings?
Baca has his eye on the bull.L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca is pissed off at the FBI for reportedly smuggling a cellphone into County Jail so that an inmate could spy on deputies' controversial treatment of men behind bars. You would think that Baca would be more concerned that his deputies' b ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Raoul Joseph Germain Gets 21 Months in Federal Lockup After Taking Cash For No-Look Building Inspections
One of the dirtiest scandals to hit City Hall in a while made headlines again today when a building inspector got 21 months behind bars for taking bribes to approve projects. Sixty-year-old L.A. building inspector Raoul Joseph Germain was sentenced to federal time today after he pleaded guil ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Ashton Kutcher Alert: LAPD to Screen Sex Trafficking Documentary
Ashton's cause.Paparazzi should be on alert. Because this is the kind of thing we think Ashton Kutcher -- adamant in his disgust over sex trafficking -- would really want to check out. The LAPD, strangely, is trumpeting a screening of a sex trafficking documentary called FLESH, Bought & Sold ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Azusa 13 Gang Terrorized Blacks, Monopolized Drug Sales, Sent 'Taxes' to Mexican Mafia, Feds Allege
The feds cracked down today on a San Gabriel Valley Latino gang they say has been on a war path against African Americans for 20 years. Sixteen people were arrested, 23 were already behind bars, seven were arrested on state drug allegations, and 12 others were on the loose as authorities act ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
L.A. Building Inspectors Arrested by FBI For Allegedly Approving Home Projects For Cash
Dirty money in the L.A. Dept. of Building and Safety?Two L.A. city building inspectors were arrested this morning for allegedly taking thousands of dollars worth of bribes to approve houses and improvements they had not properly checked out, the U.S. Attorney's Office here says. Forty-nine-y ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
California Inmate Sukhjinder Basra Sues State for Threatening Him to Trim His Beard
democraticunderground.comDo prisoners have a right to beard?We take personal freedoms very seriously in California -- as do we our right to sue the shit out of anyone who treads on our land of the free. To demonstrate, SoCal ACLU lawyers pounced on the religious-freedom case of Sukhjinder Ba ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
U.S. Prosecutors Want Bruce Beresford-Redman to go to Mexico to Face Court in Wife's Death
The Beresford-Redmans.U.S. prosecutors are officially backing up Mexico's request to bring onetime Survivor television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman back south of the border to face murder accusations related to the death of his wife. On Monday the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, Andre Birot ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Eric Holder: Feds Will Crack Down On Marijuana If Prop. 19 Passes
Eric HolderAttorney General Eric Holder has announced that the U.S. government will "vigorously enforce" federal law against marijuana if California voters elect to legalize the drug next month.In a letter to former administrators of the DEA, Holder stated that the Department of Justice "strongly ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
CVS Pharmacy Paying $75 Million After U.S. Attorney In L.A. Says The Chain Sold Precursor To Meth To Illegal Drug Makers
This is your face on meth: Thanks CVS.We usually think of our friendly neighborhood meth dealer as a stringy-haired guy with a few missing teeth and a stained wife beater who lives in a van down by the river. Who knew that one of the biggest players in the Meth biz in Southern California was ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
City Of Walnut Sued By United States For Blocking Construction Of Buddhist Temple
The San Gabriel Valley city of Walnut is being sued by the federal government for alleged religious discrimination after it blocked the construction of a Buddhist house of worship, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. The Chung Tai Zen Center was denied a conditional use permit i ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
FBI and LAPD Raid South L.A. Housing Project Arresting Several Suspected Gang Members
A task force of local and federal law enforcement raided a South L.A. housing project Wednesday, arresting dozens of suspected gang-members named in a federal indictment, with charges that include racketeering, drug dealing and murder, officials said at a press conference today. Law enforce ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Following Post-Rave Death Of Teen, U.S. Attorney's Office Cracks Down On Alleged Ecstasy Ring; $17 Million In Pills Seized
U.S. Attorney's OfficeTuan Vu, at-large.Fifteen suspects were indicted this week following a federal investigation in the Los Angeles area that led to the seizure of 1.1 million tablets of ecstasy -- $17 million worth, the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced Thursday. The U.S. Attorney i ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
U.S. Customs Attorney Found Guilty For Accepting Immigrants' Bribes
A senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorney was found guilty or corruption Tuesday for taking bribes from immigrants who wanted to stay in the country legally. Peter Kallas, an assistant chief counsel at the agency, was convicted of "conspiracy, six counts of bribery, tw ... More >>
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March 10, 2010
Breaking News: Restaurant's Owner, Sushi Chef Charged In Whale Meat Scandal
Federal charges were filed Wednesday against a Santa Monica restaurant and its sushi chef for allegedly serving sei whale, an endangered species projected under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act, the U.S. Attorney's office announced. The criminal complaint charges the The Hump's parent c ... More >>
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October 20, 2005
Jan Perry�s LAPD Blues
The councilwoman can�t nail her foe
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July 1, 2004
Mr. Miller�s Tea Party
The ceremony of another L.A. police beating
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June 19, 2003
Neat and Messy
Two guys who will police the police

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