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State AG declines criminal charges against ex-LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl
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2 LA women charged with roles in 2021 attack on US Capitol By City News Service
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Kennedy Lindsey identified by yellow rectangle and Danielle Lacy identified by red rectangle. | Photo courtesy of FBI Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl speaks at the 2019 Stormwater Capture Workshop put on by the Southern California Water Coalition. | Photo by SCWC / CC BY 2.0
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fter a nearly two-year investigation, the state Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday it has declined to pursue any criminal charges against former Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl stemming from allegations of political corruption. Prosecutors also declined to file any charges against Patti Giggans, director of the nonprofit Peace Over Violence. The investigation was centered on allegations
that Kuehl, a longtime close friend of Giggans, helped steer a series of no-bid Metro contracts to Peace Over Violence while she served on the Metro Board of Directors. According to the state Attorney General’s Office, the investigation also found insufficient evidence to file any charges over allegations that Kuehl and Giggans were both tipped off about planned sheriff’s department raids of their homes and offices on Sept. 14, 2022.
Sheriff’s investigators also served search warrants that day at the offices of Metro and the Metro Office of Inspector General. The Attorney General’s Office took over the investigation in September 2022 from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Public Corruption Unit. Some critics at the time had assailed the unit as targeting political opponents of then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who strongly denied
the allegation. Kuehl was a vocal critic of Villanueva during his time as sheriff. Kuehl denied any involvement in the awarding of Metro contracts for Peace Over Violence to operate a sex-harassment hotline for transit riders and employees, saying she was unaware of them and did not vote on them as a member of the Metro Board of Directors. The contracts totaled more than $800,000.
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wo California women who allegedly flew from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are facing federal charges, according to court papers obtained Wednesday. Kennedy Lindsey and Danielle Lacy -- whose ages and hometown were not immediately available -- both illegally entered the Capitol during the riot, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in the District of Columbia. Lindsey entered the building by jumping through a broken window, while Lacy entered through one of the Capitol’s principal entrances, federal prosecutors allege. Lindsey allegedly was found carrying a cache of weapons, including a sword, a steel whip, pepper spray, a taser and a knife, into the Capitol building, the document states. In the 43 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 1,488 people have been charged in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including nearly 550 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The investigation remains ongoing.
Woman attacked at Pasadena Metro station; suspect arrested By City News Service
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woman is recovering after she was attacked at a Metro train station in the median of the Foothill (210) Freeway in Pasadena before sunrise Wednesday, and
a suspect is facing attempted murder charges Thursday. Deputies responded around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday to the Metro A Line’s Allen Station where a man suspected of
punching a woman multiple times in an unprovoked attack was arrested, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. The woman fell to the ground and endured several
more blows before the suspect pushed her onto the tracks, “dragged her across the cement freeway divider,” and onto a traffic lane on the freeway, authorities said.
The suspect was later located and taken into custody at the intersection of Allen Avenue and Villa Street by Sheriff’s Transit Bureau personnel without incident.
He was booked on suspicion of attempted murder, according to sheriff’s officials. The woman was taken to a hospital and listed in stable condition.