Posted on 08/05/2016 4:23:35 PM PDT by MeganC
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A federal grand jury indicted former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca for conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstructing justice and lying to the FBI over corruption inside county jails.
In 2010, the FBI launched an investigation into civil rights abuses and corruption inside the jails. In February, Baca had agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of lying to the FBI about his knowledge that sheriff's officials approached and threatened to arrest an FBI agent in 2013.
Baca ended up withdrawing his guilty plea when a judge rejected a plea deal with a maximum six-month sentence. The judge called it "too lenient" and said that it did "not fairly measure this defendant's culpability."
The 74-year-old was charged Friday in a three-count indictment. If convicted on all counts, Baca could face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison.
He is expected to be arraigned at a later date, which has not been set yet.
As a result of the FBI's investigation, 20 current or former member of the sheriff's department have been convicted on federal charges for helping to cover up corruption in the jails.
Thats a politician wearing a badge....Chiefs are politicians masquerading as managers
Too bad his name isn’t Clinton, huh?
Awaiting a jackboot kisser to swoop in and declare you a cop hater in 3... 2... 1...
“A federal grand jury indicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstructing justice and lying to the FBI over corruption....”
Since when is the DOJ indicting Hispanic democrats? I don’t get it.
Lee Baca has been wearing a badge since twenty-five years before I was born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Baca
5.56mm
This is the post-moral, post-Christian America the liberals wanted.
Well, never say never, but l’m sure he had no intention to & this should be dropped...... Unless he must be a repub?
But...but...cops NEVER lie, right???
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And cop haters never exaggerate.
Laws were not made for Hillary.
Sadly, we didn’t have to wait too long, did we? Sure enough they showed up to make excuses for Baca just because he used to wear a shiny metal thing on his shirt.
Should have caught LA Lynch on the Tarmac of the LA airport ... talk about their grand children and personal stuff and Comey would have recommended the charges be dropped.
The corrupt, left wing, politicized FBI charging a sheriff with corruption? I’ll hold my judgement until I read more.
I was in LA and they were talking of this case. Baca had cut a deal to plead guilty and serve 6 months (or less). Judge thought it was not enough and now Baca could be facing 15 years. Sounds like he should have cut a different deal and taken longer then the original deal. Pretty clear he is guilty of obstruction.
I’d suggest that with Comey and The Lyncher in charge, the FBI is incapable of determining The Truth.
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