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mob boss sheriff lying to cover up his mob's crimes? No way.
They investigated themselves:
The grand jury indictment of Tanaka offered a portrait of a department adrift, with senior officials who were responsible for investigating abuses working instead to undermine internal safeguards and ignoring repeated warnings of widespread problems in the nation's largest jail system.
In sketching out the case against Tanaka and another former high-ranking official, prosecutors accused them of directing a group of deputies who were convicted of carrying out the plot to impede the FBI investigation into jail misconduct.
Criminal organization? No way.
So far, more than a dozen former sheriff's officials have been convicted as a result of the wide-ranging investigation, which began more than five years ago.
Unfortunately:
Zweibeck said that the sentencing guidelines for making a false statement is up to six months in prison but that Baca could also be sentenced to probation and not serve any time behind bars.
