{"id":27212,"date":"2016-10-11T20:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=27212"},"modified":"2016-10-11T20:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T03:11:55","slug":"former-port-of-l-a-chief-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-making-false-statement-and-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=27212","title":{"rendered":"Former Port of L.A. Chief Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Making False Statement and Tax Evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0A federal judge sentenced former Port of Los Angeles Chief of Police Ronald Boyd to two years in federal prison. Boyd pled guilty on Feb. 3 to federal charges of tax evasion and making a false statement to FBI Agents, officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"JUSTICEThe FBI was investigating his acceptance of a bribe in connection with the development of an official smart phone app to be marketed to other law enforcement agencies, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner also ordered Ronald Jerome Boyd, 58, of Torrance,to pay $305,054 in restitution, officials said.<\/p>\n

Boyd pleaded guilty on the day he was scheduled to go to trial on a 16-count indictment that was returned by a grand jury last year.<\/p>\n

“It’s of paramount importance that public officials, particularly those in law enforcement, maintain the standards of honesty and trust they owe to the public,” said Lawrence Middleton, the Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, “The sentence imposed by the court in this case demonstrates that those who betray such trust shall be met with serious consequences.”<\/p>\n

Boyd admitted to lying to federal investigators about a scheme related to a smartphone app called Portwatch<\/strong>, which was developed to provide information to the public and to allow citizens to report criminal activity at the port, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

The indictment accused Boyd of corruption, lying to FBI agents, failing to file federal corporate tax returns for a private security company he created, and tax evasion.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Boyd and two business partners formed BDB Digital Communications, a company that entered into a revenue-sharing agreement with the unnamed company developing Portwatch.<\/p>\n

The parties involved with BDB intended to generate revenues by marketing and selling a similar app \u2013 called Metrowatch<\/strong> \u2013 to other government agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the terms of this agreement, defendant Boyd would receive approximately 13.33 percent of all gross revenues generated by the sale of the Metrowatch application throughout the United States,\u201d according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

The revenue-sharing agreement was contingent upon Boyd\u2019s assistance in securing the Portwatch contract for the unnamed company, the indictment stated.<\/p>\n

Over the course of a year beginning in October 2011, Boyd took steps to benefit the unnamed company with respect to the Portwatch contract.<\/p>\n

The indictment alleges that his actions included the following things:<\/strong><\/p>\n