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| Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Hit By New Corruption Charges |
| By huffingtonpost.com - John Rudolf |
| Published: 08/09/2012 |
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, already stung by reports of widespread brutality in its jails, faced troubling new allegations this week, with a senior jail officer under investigation for allegedly sabotaging an internal probe of a deputy accused of working with a heroin-dealing white supremacist gang. The allegations against Lt. Greg Thompson, head of the county's jailhouse intelligence unit, were first detailed this week by the Los Angeles Times. According to a confidential memo obtained by the Times, an informant told two county investigators that a jail deputy was acting as a messenger and courier for the leader of a violent skinhead gang at the Men's Central Jail. In February 2012, the investigators detailed the informant's charges in a report to Thompson, who then allegedly discussed the matter directly with the implicated deputy. The deputy was told the identity of the informant and the names of the two officers responsible for the investigative report, sources told the Times. Read More. |
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