CBS; Joel Rubin, LA Times (June 28, 2016); Seth Auberon, Pat Machperson, Wisdom Quarterly
Mayor/Undersheriff Tanaka sentenced to 5 years in prison for least of his crimes (LAT)
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Former top L.A. County sheriff's official given 5-year prison sentence for obstructing FBI probe
For
years, allegations of inmate beatings by sheriff’s deputies in Los
Angeles County jails [were common knowledge]. When they did, one name surfaced over and
over: Paul Tanaka. Tanaka, a Sheriff’s Department veteran who rose to
become second in command of one of the county’s largest police agencies,
was dogged...
When
the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department scandal emerged more than
six years ago, the idea that former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, and his
old boss, Sheriff Lee Baca, would one day be wearing prison blues was
all but unthinkable. In 2011, the ACLU released a blockbuster report on
inmate abuse...
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Disgraced former Sheriff Baca going to jail
(WQ)
Allegedly former Sheriff Lee Baca has early-stage Alzheimer's. So he may get
out of prison time -- though he will be sentenced to at least 6 months
in jail and may be forced to serve some of it, at least symbolically. Baca has already been convicted and is awaiting sentencing
after pleading guilty when cutting a special deal to not prosecute his other crimes
and only give him at most half-a-year for a petty offense. LA's is a criminal, a convict now, and now he would have us believe he is an
invalid also, too frail for jail.
Undersheriff sentenced to 5 years in prison
(WQ)
But the man immediately under him -- a brutal bully who told jailers to
beat prisoners with impunity -- has been sentenced and must turn
himself in by August 2016. He is appealing. And everyone is angry that
his boss -- who was well aware of what was going on in the deprivation
of citizen's civil rights, as police committed felony assault under
color of uniform on a regular basis -- is getting away with his crimes
committed over 20 years. They got carried away when the FBI sent in a
spy, and 9 sheriff's officials have been sentenced. The second worst
criminal, former Undersheriff (now felon) Paul Tanaka, who was once the
most likely candidate to replace Baca as LA Sheriff (pre FBI scandal)
and was also mayor of the Los Angeles city of Gardena, is headed to
federal prison. And he is p-ssed off about it
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