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'60s still alive on a corner in Echo Park
POINTS WESTA spirited Art Goldberg was up in his shabby Echo Park office Monday afternoon, above the Vietnamese bakery with the moon cakes he loves, counting votes for the antiwar resolution he's been touting since August. "I think we've got 10," said the lanky,...Tags: Social Issues, Echo Park, National Government, Law Enforcement, Government
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Mukasey's black magic on torture
Maybe it was in honor of the Halloween season. The Bush administration's Justice Department has been a horror show for years now, complete with gruesome exhibits like the infamous 2002 "torture memo." And in his recent Senate confirmation hearings, the...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Lawyers, Pol Pot, National Government, Wars and Interventions
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Torture's blame game
Who done it? Sometime late in 2005, the CIA destroyed videotapes showing hundreds of hours of interrogations of two top Al Qaeda suspects -- while continuing to imply to the 9/11 commission and the courts that no such interrogation tapes had ever...Tags: Republican Party, Abusive Behavior, Prosecution, September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Government
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Who'll stop the gangs?
Gang violence is to Los Angeles politics as the weather is to conversation: Everybody talks about it, and nobody ever does anything about it. Policing occasionally provides a temporary surcease, as it did last week when a drive-by murder next to a...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Law Enforcement, Tony Cardenas, Assault, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Tribune Co. chief Sam Zell interviewed by federal prosecutors in criminal probe of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Tribune reportersTribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Zell hired well-known defense lawyer Anton Valukas and was interviewed in January by federal prosecutors as a "potential witness" in the criminal investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the company...Tags: Lawyers, Police Investigations, Sports, John F. Harris, Executive Branch
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Sheriff takes aim at celebrity leaks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSACRAMENTO -- Amid concern over the frenzy of entertainment blogs and tabloids competing for inside information on Paris Hilton's days in jail and Mel Gibson's tirade during a drunk-driving arrest, state lawmakers have taken steps to clamp down on some...Tags: Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Entertainment, Newspapers, Drunk Driving, Police Investigations
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Tape Tells Tale of Pellicano
Times Staff WriterLos Angeles police did not need any fancy computer program the time they turned the tables on private investigator Anthony Pellicano and secretly taped him in one of their own station houses. Pellicano had requested a meeting with the police detectives...Tags: Breast, Bars and Clubs, Entertainment, Prosecution, Police Investigations
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L.A. County Sheriff Hires Recruits with Criminal Records
LOS ANGELES -- Amid an aggressive push to bolster its ranks with thousands of new deputies, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department loosened its hiring practices and gave jobs to recruits who in the past would have been rejected, according to a...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Drugs and Medicines, Police Investigations, California
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Officer involved in 'Violent' Arrest Sells Gang-Style Attire
KTLA NewsEL MONTE -- One of the El Monte police officers involved in the violent arrest of a surrendering gang member owns a clothing business that features gang and prison-themed attire. Court records show Officer George Fierro as the owner of Torcido Clothing,...Tags: Transportation Accidents, American Civil Liberties Union, El Monte, Police Investigations, California
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Update: 'Pacman' pays casino debt
O, by the WayWhen are people going to figure out that the expression, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas' is just a marketing slogan. It really doesn't work that way.Adam 'Pacman' Jones paid a $20,000 debt he owed Caesars Palace and escaped further legal problems....Tags: Lawyers, Sports, Football, Dallas Cowboys, Crime, Law and Justice
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Lauderdale turmoil: Is wrong man leaving?
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsDoes Fort Lauderdale police chief Bruce Roberts really want to quit, or is there a subtext to his abrupt resignation letter given Wednesday? The subtext: Someone???s got to go, and it???s either city manager George Gretsas or me. Notice that......Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Crime, Law and Justice
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Memo: Paterson's secret same-sex ruling
Spin CycleThe big state political news today is that Gov. Paterson, through a memorandum issued by his counsel David Nocenti, has ordered all state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in jurisdictions (Canada, Massachusetts, soon California) where...Tags: Health Insurance, California, Private Health Care, Law Enforcement, Same-Sex Marriage
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