Ex-members of L.A. County sheriff’s alleged ‘secret police’ testify to oversight commission
LA TimesFor nearly five hours Friday, the Civilian Oversight Commission grilled two former members of a secretive unit within the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department accused of targeting former Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s foes. This year, state prosecutors formally rejected the case, saying they’d completed a “thorough and independent investigation.” But on Friday, Fernandez alleged state investigators previously told him prosecutors had never actually let them examine the evidence. In a statement Friday, Villanueva called Fernandez’s testimony “a damning indictment of the integrity of Bonta’s position on the Peace Over Violence investigation.” “Fernandez confirmed what we knew, that Bonta assumed control of the public corruption investigation for the sole purpose of burying it, not to investigate it as he claimed,” he said. “I think that this hearing raises startling questions about how the Sheriff’s Department has targeted this commission and other oversight officials,” he said.
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