Los Angeles: CAIR Sheriff Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

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One of the least principled law enforcement officers in the country has finally come to the end of his career, with a modicum of justice being done. Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has been sentenced to 3 years in prison.

Baca was a relentless supporter of Hamas-CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations. However, it was Baca’s obstruction of an FBI investigation into abuses in the county’s jails that was his undoing. Apparently, this was a situation that couldn’t be made to go away with offers of deputization, introductions to celebrities, or political access.

If only Lee Baca had chosen to represent the citizens of Los Angeles, instead of the denizens of Hollywood and groups with deep pockets such as the Scientologists and Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups, things might have ended very differently for him.

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“Ex-L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca sentenced to three years in prison in jail corruption scandal,” by Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2017 (thanks to Larry):

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, once a towering, respected figure in policing, was sentenced Friday to three years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to obstruct an FBI investigation of abuses in county jails, marking an end to a corruption scandal that has roiled the Sheriff’s Department for several years.

U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson announced Baca’s fate in a downtown courtroom filled with loyal supporters on one side and the FBI agents and prosecutors who ensnared him on the other. Baca, 74 and suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, showed no emotion as the decision was read.

Before issuing the sentence, Anderson, who has dealt unsparingly with the former sheriff throughout his legal battle and last year threw out a plea deal that would have sent Baca to prison for no more than six months, unleashed a scathing rebuke of the man who ran one of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies for 15 years.

Excoriating Baca’s refusal to accept responsibility for having overseen and condoned the obstruction ploy carried out by subordinates, the judge portrayed him as a man driven by his desire to protect his own reputation and maintain control over the Sheriff’s Department.

“Your actions embarrass the thousands of men and women [in the department] who put their lives on the line every day,” Anderson said to Baca. “They were a gross abuse of the trust the public placed in you.”

The prison term, Anderson added, should serve as a deterrent to other public servants. “Blind obedience to a corrupt culture has serious consequences,” he said. “No person, no matter how powerful, no matter his or her title, is above the law.”

Baca was ordered to surrender to federal prison officials by July 25. Although he is expected to ask to remain free on bail while he pursues an appeal, it is an open question whether he will be allowed to do so. Anderson denied the same request from Baca’s second in command, former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who was forced to begin his five-year sentence.

No decision has been made on where Baca will serve his sentence. His defense attorney requested that he be assigned to a camp in Taft, Calif., or barring that, a camp in Oregon. After serving his time behind bars, Baca must also spend a year under supervised release. He was also fined $7,500….

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Goldminer
Goldminer
6 years ago

A Sheriff in prison, That will go well. 😉

old003
old003
6 years ago
Reply to  Goldminer

He will be protected by the mooslims bros.

Halftrack2
Halftrack2
6 years ago
Reply to  Goldminer

Karma

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Goldminer

wait till he meets his new lover…..
Here is a message for him

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

bye bye liberalcomment image

lato_sensu
lato_sensu
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

when did the “government” ever uphold or abide “laws” they pass.

Nan Martin
Nan Martin
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

One day it may be you in the slammer maybe on trumped up charges watch what You wish for..

SunflowerSurfer
SunflowerSurfer
6 years ago
Reply to  Nan Martin

Trumped up charges?

izzyabby
izzyabby
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

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IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  izzyabby

LOL.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

Guess he will have many

RedDog
RedDog
6 years ago
Reply to  Goldminer

Bubba is happy for a new girlfriend!!!

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago
Reply to  Goldminer

Should put him with those he put in prisson

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

3 years and he gets to keep the loot ? How about seizing his unaccounted assets he got from CAIR and others.

Politicians, bureaucrats and police are on payroll of Muslim Lobbyists to further their agenda.

Like Dems selling out American interests for thousands thrown their way by iranian Lobbyists to support nuke deal http://tinyurl.com/mcake4d

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Carmelapthomas
6 years ago
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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Good, every crooked traitor who accepts and give bribes, deserves jail, along with the publicity of conviction.

John Doe
John Doe
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

All of his celebrity buddies and Scientologist friends will probably keep from harms way, and re-elect him and his cronies.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Doesn’t Baca mean fool?

lostlegends
lostlegends
6 years ago

I’ll drink to this! A Jim Beam with Coke and thank you!

karl59
karl59
6 years ago

Once Baca turned Muslim, that was the beginning of the end.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  karl59

doubt he is muslim. Just a thieving parasite supporting the nazis

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
6 years ago

I liked him because he let the deputies and jail staff beat the crap out of the gangbangers. It was in the course of defending himself against liberal obama DOJ busybodies that he obstructed “justice.”

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

proof he was not all bad

David F. Wiegand
David F. Wiegand
6 years ago

As a parishioner of the Church of Scientology, I found your comments about my church interesting, however mentioning my church alongside the Muslim Brotherhood went a bit too far I think. Additionally, the Church of Scientology has always been concerned with the well being of ALL of the citizens of Los Angeles, especially considering the many social betterment activities that the Church performs for the betterment of Los Angeles citizens. If you have specific information that indicates that Baca was aligned against the citizens of Los Angeles, please publish it.

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
6 years ago

Scientology! You idiot

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

put him in an “institution.. Now we have to pay for himcomment image

Steve
Steve
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

Terrorism Chic versus Terrorism Bleak

2muchcafe
2muchcafe
6 years ago

He should have been charged with SEDITION and TREASON for supporting the enemies of our COUNTRY.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

I’ll bet Baca will still get to keep his generous pension (which includes lifetime medical benefits and 80% of his working salary).

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

He will either be sent someplace where he will be kept in “ad seg”, or administrative segregation, where he will be confined to his cell alone for 23 hours a day to prevent a jailhouse version of street justice against a former cop or to a camp housing non-violent offenders like embezzlers or jury tamperers.

Dave Falanga
Dave Falanga
6 years ago

Baca, another potential convert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHblGP6iKXs

Tonya Parnell
Tonya Parnell
6 years ago
Reply to  Dave Falanga

State & Federal prisons are the best breeding grounds for jihad recruiting and gangs

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago
Reply to  Dave Falanga

Deportation needed to Sahara desert

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

I used to know an LA Sheriff’s deputy who worked under Bloch (RIP) and Baca. He made no bones about Baca being a corrupt bastage even back then.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
6 years ago

Great ending to a pristine scumbag.

Dennie Melton
Dennie Melton
6 years ago

This is very sad Day for Law Enforcement nationwide. A once felt Greatness fell to corruptions Greed for his and the Under Sheriff’s personal Gains. This hurts the Professionalism many achieve to be the Best in their Careers. That for Public and Communities they serve the thin Blue Lines Daily. I,pray that Dementia, Almerzer’s take him quickly before he serves out his sentence for his own Health. God have mercy on his Sole. One or two bad behavior is not all the others that achieve to do their Best for their communities daily to their Life in Thin Blue line of Duty sometimes. I still have great respect for the many others in LAPD/LASO That I formally worked around as a Retired Peace Officer. That worked in the area in the 1980’s to currently. This from visit to the area. I still Salute those that work daily in their Communities that are served by all Hard working Officers, Support Staffing other EMS folks needed to make it work 24/7. Peace my fellow officers do your Best your Greatness shall over come daily with God’s Help Faith to make it home safe to EOW.

Zeze Smith
Zeze Smith
6 years ago
Reply to  Dennie Melton

Thank You

dodger4754
dodger4754
6 years ago

Tell Bubba I said hi!

Tom Pokorny
Tom Pokorny
6 years ago

Camp? He should not get special treatment. When you break the law,(Don`t care WHO you are),you go to jail with all of the REST of the criminals!

Lisa Askwit ✓ᵀᴿᵁᴹᴾ
Lisa Askwit ✓ᵀᴿᵁᴹᴾ
6 years ago

ONLY 3 YEARS????!!!

SunflowerSurfer
SunflowerSurfer
6 years ago

Since he loves CAIR so much, let him serve his term in GITMO!

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

Dungeons of the Inquisitions

Clay Autery
Clay Autery
6 years ago

Should have been put up against a wall and shot…. Mmm…. where are the civil asset forfeitures?

RuFus92
RuFus92
6 years ago

Nor near long enough for a crooked lawman.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

If you got one bit of trash as a Sheriff, good chance their are others to remove. High Crime rates has to come from the top.

So many for Trump to weed out.

ted towny
ted towny
6 years ago

Watch your behind Sheriff, you hung out with the wrong crowd.

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