all of them have rhoid rage and an authority complex and most of them are washed out military types who couldn't handle it in the service.

I'm a Los Angeles County Process Server, a crazy job, and I had the pleasure of serving the Federal summons in this case on Lee Baca at his home in San Marino.
I'll admit to being a little nervous pulling up at the house that evening, this guy was very powerful in L.A., and for all I knew he had deputies hiding all over the property ready to shoot me.
But the man who came to the door seemed much thinner, older and much more frail than the man I had seen on TV so many times. We did our business very politely, and went our separate ways.
Me, probably to a Chinese restaurant.
Him, to Federal Prison.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/former-la-county-sheriff-lee-baca-found-guilty-orchestrating-scheme-obstruct-federal

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The obstruction plot began in August 2011 after LASD officials discovered a cell phone in an inmate’s cell at the Men’s Central Jail, linked the phone to the FBI’s Civil Rights Squad and learned that the inmate was an FBI informant. The cell phone had been smuggled into the jail by a corrupt deputy who took bribes. The FBI developed the informant as part of an investigation into the county jail system, which for years had been the subject of allegations of inmate abuse and subsequent cover-ups. The evidence presented at trial showed that the Sheriff wanted to avoid federal scrutiny of his troubled jails.

As part of the obstruction scheme, Baca ordered a criminal investigation of the FBI agents conducting an undercover investigation, and he directed that the informant be concealed from federal investigators. Members of the conspiracy then hid the informant from federal authorities, engaged in witness tampering in an effort to prevent information from being shared with federal authorities, and threatened to arrest the lead FBI agent on the case.

While Baca put his right-hand man, then-Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, in charge of the scheme, Baca participated in dozens of meetings and phone calls with members of the conspiracy and admitted directing his deputies to approach the FBI agent. Baca participated in the scheme after being warned by a top deputy that the actions would amount to obstruction of justice.
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