revived long-standing concerns that inked deputy groups [...] Spartans, Regulators, Grim Reapers and Banditos [...] operate out of several Sheriff’s Department stations and represent what many in the community see as criminal gangs within law enforcement.
Decorated former Marine Art Gonzalez became an L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy.
When another deputy was badly beaten by other members, he reported it to Internal Affairs.
Afterward, he was texted a photo of a note written on the station’s keypad: “Art is a rat.”
For six hours, [Gonzales] testified under oath
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In his testimony for an excessive-force lawsuit, he alleged that deputy Miguel Vega killed 18-year-old Andres Guardado, to impress the Executioners gang in hopes of being initiated.
The existence of such fraternities has sparked multiple internal investigations and recently a federal probe by the FBI, but the groups have remained entrenched, with many civil liberties advocates accusing the Sheriff’s Department of turning a blind eye.
“There is a long history of white supremacist gang infiltration in the ranks of LASD, dating from 1971. In the 1980s, these gangs proliferated throughout the LASD “at overwhelmingly white sheriff’s stations that were islands
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in Black and Latino immigrant communities.” They have been characterized as “powerful forces with the sheriff’s department who beat and harass local residents and, at times, actively work to intimidate other nonaffiliated officers.”
Los Angeles County has paid out “roughly $55 million in settlements” in nearly 60 cases related to these gang-affiliated deputies and their violations of civil rights. Nearly 30 years later, these gangs continue to attract younger deputies entering the LASD.
.@greggnunziata apparently doesn’t want anyone to notice the corrupting influence that Citizens United and dark money-funded astroturfing have had - from the Tea Party to Clarence Thomas.
And those who recognize it are “liberals” trying to “recklessly delegitimize” the Court.
@greggnunziata Originalism and textualism were an attempt to create a “denomination” in the legal field that transformed the constitution into a religious text - one that “liberals” (i.e. everyone else) simply aren’t qualified to interpret.
NEW: Ten women who escaped the Kingston Clan have filed a lawsuit detailing a sex trafficking cult, forced incestuous marriages, child labor, schemes to defraud governments.
Left: Today’s article:
Right: July, 2020 - Don Jr with a prominent member:
Lev Dermen and multiple members of the Kingston family were sentenced to years in federal prison for conducting a nearly decade-long tax fraud scheme described as “one of the largest ever.”
A former FBI agent was also sentenced to prison for helping them evade the law.
Big story - maybe moreso in the context of Ronna’s ouster from RNC.
Superfeed, originally a news/media platform created by 7 Mountains follower Floyd Brown, passed to Jeff Dewit, connected to TPUSA, is now being used by swing state GOP orgs - almost zero records of payments.
Superfeed is used by Lindell for people to snitch about “voter fraud;” used by Scott Presler for GOTV; now being used by multiple state GOP Party orgs…
But it’s also the company Dewit paid Kari Lake through, until she recorded him.
Provided for free???
Remember, NBC recently reported that Charlie Kirk influenced Trump’s decision to oust Ronna.
And one of the biggest complaints from insiders was that Kirk was redirecting RNC money for his own ends.
And when GOP orgs move to Superfeed, 👉the RNC no longer owns the data.👈
Not only openly undermining US policy, but also openly allying with right wingers who corruptly tried to stay in power after losing the election in Guatemala.
In 2010, Mike Johnson was appointed dean of a new “Christian law school” named after Paul Pressler - a ‘training ground’ for religious right lawyers. It never opened.
Prior to that, he was a senior legal counsel and spokesman for ADF (Dobbs, 303, etc.).