Former Los Angeles County sheriff Lee Baca has been implicated in a $500 million fraud scheme, court documents allege.
He stepped down in 2014 amid increasing controversy and later was indicted on charges stemming from a plot to thwart an FBI investigation into abuses by deputies working in the county’s jail.behind bars after a jury found he oversaw a plan to interfere with the FBI investigation and later lied to prosecutors about his role. He remains free while waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether to take up his appeal.
“The polygamist liar who is a source for that fairy tale about Baca also made up demonstrably false stuff on his own family members and is a felon facing life,” Geragos said. At Dermen’s request in 2013, Kingston began to file false claims for renewable fuel tax credits in larger and larger amounts, believing he’d be protected, according to court documents. Starting in 2014, Kingston tried to bribe a high-level Department of Justice official code-named “Commissioner Gordon,” along with prosecutors and judges, by giving cash bribes to an intermediary, court documents show.
According to court documents prosecutors filed in Balian’s case, Balian and the immigration agent, Felix Cisneros, were close friends and had both worked security for Dermen’s relative.Kingston said Cisneros was present when Baca accepted the payment, court records show. Mark Werksman, an attorney for Cisneros, said the allegation sounded “preposterous.”
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