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Monday, MAY 18, 2015 - May 24, 2015 - Volume 4, No. 20
Former No. 2 Of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Charged With Obstructing Federal Investigation Into Misconduct At County Jails
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The British are ComingJune 6 to Sierra Madre by terry miller
I’ll ‘borrow’ the great line from Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ BBC Televison Show…’And now , for something completely different…’ because it describes, in one absolutely glorious albeit confusing senetnce, what the British Home’s June Faire is all about, something very different indeed.
It’s atypical indeed, to every faire you might attend in these, the former British Leroy Baca left his post in January 2014 amid the federal investigation and the findings of a special commission on jail violence that cited a “failure of leadership” over the jails. While Baca colonies. The British Home has not been charged with any crime, he did personally “hand pick” Paul Tanaka for the number 2 position-which leads critics of Baca to believe there is more to the story will be holding its 2015 – Baca Photo by Terry Miller June Faire on Saturday, June – Tanaka, courtesy LASD 6, from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. Don’t miss it, or else. Paul Tanaka, who was A federal grand jury that last year resulted in the count of obstruction of jus- vestigations Bureau. This family-friendly the second in command of yesterday returned a five- conviction of seven other tice. Carey is charged with Tanaka and Carey surthe Los Angeles Sheriff’s count indictment against former LASD deputies. two counts of making false rendered themselves to the event celebrating “All Things Department, and William Tanaka and Carey, who alThe obstruction of jus- declarations for perjuring FBI early this morning, and British “ is held annually on Thomas Carey, who oversaw legedly participated in a tice case was announced himself last year during the the two men are expected the first Saturday in June at internal criminal investiga- broad conspiracy to ob- at a news conference this trials of co-conspirators. to be arraigned on the in- Sierra Madre’s non-profit tions at the LASD, have been struct the investigation, a morning by Acting United Tanaka was the under- dictment this afternoon in independent and assisted indicted on obstruction of scheme that started when States Attorney Stephanie sheriff – the number 2 in United States District Court. living facility for seniors. In 1920 The British justice charges for allegedly the Sheriff’s Department Yonekura and FBI Assistant the LASD – until 2013, and According to the indictdirecting efforts to quash a learned that an inmate at Director in Charge David he ran an unsuccessful cam- ment that was unsealed this Home was founded by the federal investigation into the Men’s Central Jail (MCJ) Bowdich. paign for sheriff last year. morning, the two defend- Daughters of the British corruption and civil rights was an FBI informant. TanTanaka and Carey, both Carey left the LASD after ants were well aware of Empire and other philanviolations by sheriff’s depu- aka and Carey allegedly 56, are charged with con- reaching the rank of cap- “problem deputies” at the thropic organizations as a retirement home for elderly ties at two downtown jail directed, oversaw and par- spiracy to obstruct justice, tain and heading the complexes. ticipated in a conspiracy and each is named in one Internal Criminal InSEE PG. 2 SEE PG. 7
Rep. Schiff Calls for Immediate Assemblymember Holden’s Implementation of Positive Train “Franchise Bill of Rights” Scores Big Control across the Country Win in California Assembly Vote (AB 525) Authored Legislation Requiring PTC Systems by End of 2015
Today, in the wake of the tragic Amtrak crash in Philadelphia that so far has cost the lives of eight people, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for urgent implementation of Positive Train
Control (PTC), a predictive collision-avoidance technology which can override an operator to prevent train collisions and save lives. The technology consists of GPS signals and wayside devices
that can detect unapproved train movement or trains going too fast with the ability to stop the train remotely. “Even after the SEE PG. 5
Sacramento - Franchisees in California are one step closer to being treated as the small business owners that they are, and not employees, now that Assemblymember Chris Holden's bill, AB 525, has passed off the Assembly Floor with a bipartisan vote of 54 to 10. The measure, jointly
authored with Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, Assemblymembers Bill Dodd (D-Napa) and Scott Wilk (RSanta Clarita), now goes to the Senate.
AB 525 would provide franchisee small business owners a greater level of protection from having
their franchise contract arbitrarily terminated by adopting a "substantial compliance" standard for termination. This standard says franchise owners are making an honest effort to comply with the contract
SEE PG. 5