{"id":29864,"date":"2017-03-15T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29864"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:14:59","slug":"former-l-county-sheriff-lee-baca-found-guilty-obstruction-justice-chargesformer-l-county-sheriff-lee-baca-found-guilty-obstruction-justice-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29864","title":{"rendered":"Former L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca found guilty on obstruction of justice and other charges (Videos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"trb_ar_by\">\n<article class=\"trb_ar\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_main\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_la\">\n<aside class=\"trb_embed\" data-content-id=\"92784684\" data-content-size=\"leadart\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-content-slug=\"la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\" data-content-subtype=\"photo\" data-role=\"sc_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer\" data-state=\"\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_media\">\n<figure class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_figure\" data-role=\"imgsize_item\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_img\" title=\"Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1260px) 750px, (min-width: 1060px) calc(100vw - 559px), (min-width: 840px) calc(100vw - 419px), (min-width: 800px) 800px, 100.1vw\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/350\/350x197 350w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/400\/400x225 400w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/450\/450x253 450w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/500\/500x281 500w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/550\/550x309 550w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/600\/600x338 600w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/650\/650x366 650w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/700\/700x394 700w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/750\/750x422 750w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/800\/800x450 800w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/850\/850x478 850w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/900\/900x506 900w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/950\/950x534 950w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1000\/1000x563 1000w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1050\/1050x591 1050w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1100\/1100x619 1100w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1150\/1150x647 1150w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1200\/1200x675 1200w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1400\/1400x788 1400w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1600\/1600x900 1600w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/1800\/1800x1013 1800w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/2000\/2000x1125 2000w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\/2048\/2048x1152 2048w\" alt=\"Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58c6bfbf\/turbine\/la-1489420304-lav9uilmqv-snap-photo\" data-c-nd=\"2048x1152\" data-role=\"imgsize_srcsetdisplayitem\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related\" data-role=\"lightbox_metadata\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related_credit_and_caption\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, right, and his wife, Carol Chiang, go through security at federal court earlier this month. (Irfan Khan \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_by\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_by\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_pm\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au\" data-byline-withoutby=\"\">By\u00a0<a class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-joel-rubin-staff.html#nt=byline\">Joel Rubin<\/a> and <a class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-victoria-kim-staff.html#nt=byline\">Victoria Kim<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_by\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_pm\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_pm\"><a class=\"trb_ar_by_cl\" href=\"mailto:joel.rubin@latimes.com,victoria.kim@latimes.com?subject=Regarding:%20%22Former%20L.A.%20County%20Sheriff%20Lee%20Baca%20found%20guilty%20on%20obstruction%20of%20justice%20and%20other%20charges%22\" data-role=\"sc_sEmail\">Contact Reporters<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_dateline\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<a id=\"PEPLT007559\" title=\"Lee Baca\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/law-enforcement\/lee-baca-PEPLT007559-topic.html\">Lee Baca<\/a>, the once powerful and popular sheriff of Los Angeles County, was found guilty Wednesday of obstructing a federal investigation into abuses in county jails and lying to cover up the interference.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20216 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/los_angeles_times_logo-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/los_angeles_times_logo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/los_angeles_times_logo.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The verdict, which jurors reached on their second full day of deliberations, marked a devastating fall for a man who in his 15 years as sheriff built himself into a national law enforcement figure known for progressive ideas on criminal justice issues. Baca, who is 74 and suffers from the early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, now faces the likelihood of time in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tout-sdk tout-mid-article\">\n<div class=\"Xy1DKC7MGx9LIk0CXq8ws\">\n<div class=\"_2VRfKbZJ_Um-WSZswyy492\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The conviction is a significant victory for a team of public corruption prosecutors from the U.S. attorney\u2019s office who opted to retry Baca following a mistrial late last year. In that trial, the jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of acquitting the former sheriff.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To get to Baca, prosecutors methodically worked their way up the ranks of a group of sheriff\u2019s officials who were accused of conceiving and carrying out a scheme to impede the <a id=\"ORGOV000008\" title=\"FBI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/fbi-ORGOV000008-topic.html\">FBI<\/a> jail inquiry. In all, 10 people \u2014 from low-level deputies to Baca and his former second in command \u2014 have been convicted or pleaded guilty. Several other deputies have been found guilty of civil rights violations for beating inmates and visitors in the jails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Prosecutors argued that Baca was part of a conspiracy, hatched in the summer of 2011, to obstruct attempts by the FBI to investigate allegations of corruption and abuse by deputies in his jails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Although Baca delegated day-to-day handling of the obstruction plot to his trusted undersheriff, <a id=\"PEGPF00112\" title=\"Paul Tanaka\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/law-enforcement\/paul-tanaka-PEGPF00112-topic.html\">Paul Tanaka<\/a>, he helped direct it and was kept apprised of developments from his place at the top of the command chain, prosecutors led by Assistant U.S. Atty. Brandon Fox told jurors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The scheme, prosecutors argued, included efforts to keep FBI agents away from an inmate who had been working for them as an informant, manipulating potential witnesses in the federal inquiry and intimidating an FBI agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_embed\" data-content-id=\"65131900\" data-content-size=\"small\" data-content-type=\"story\" data-content-slug=\"la-me-jails-sg\" data-content-subtype=\"storygallery\" data-role=\"sc_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer \" data-state=\"\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_media\">\n<figure class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_figure\" data-role=\"imgsize_item\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_img\" title=\"L.A. County jail system under scrutiny\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5421e584\/turbine\/la-me-jails-sg-thumbnail\/400\/400x225\" alt=\"L.A. County jail system under scrutiny\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5421e584\/turbine\/la-me-jails-sg-thumbnail\" data-c-nd=\"1600x900\" data-ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"400\" data-height=\"250\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related\" data-role=\"lightbox_metadata\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a class=\"trb_embed_media_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-jails-sg-storygallery.html\"><span class=\"trb_embed_related_title\">L.A. County jail system under scrutiny<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In his closing words to the <\/span>jury<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> before they began deliberating, Fox excoriated Baca, comparing him to a cowardly chess king who remained safely back while dispatching pawns and other underlings to do his \u201cdirty work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Baca\u2019s defense attorney, Nathan Hochman, had tried to convince jurors that while Baca was upset over the FBI\u2019s decision to secretly infiltrate his jails, he never attempted to get in the way of the federal investigation. It was Tanaka alone who directed the effort to foil the federal inquiry, Hochman contended, saying the undersheriff took advantage of the trust Baca put in him to pursue his own agenda. Baca, his lawyer argued, did not know what was going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_ar_sponsoredmod\" data-adloader-networktype=\"yieldmo\" data-v-ymid=\"ym_1606464552242100545\" data-role=\"delayload_item\" data-withinviewport-options=\"bottomOffset=100\" data-load-method=\"trb.vendor.yieldmo.init\" data-load-type=\"method\">\n<div id=\"ym_1606464552242100545\" class=\"ym ym_scroll\" data-id=\"ym_1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12027 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Los-Angeles-County-Sheriffs-Mens-Central-Jail-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Los-Angeles-County-Sheriffs-Mens-Central-Jail-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Los-Angeles-County-Sheriffs-Mens-Central-Jail-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Los-Angeles-County-Sheriffs-Mens-Central-Jail-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Los-Angeles-County-Sheriffs-Mens-Central-Jail-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Los-Angeles-County-Sheriffs-Mens-Central-Jail.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jurors convicted Baca of three felonies: obstruction of justice, conspiracy and making false statements to federal investigators.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tanaka, who was convicted last year of obstruction of justice and conspiracy, received a 5-year sentence from U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson, who also presided over Baca\u2019s trials and those of the others caught up in the obstruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The case focused on six weeks in August and September 2011 following the discovery by sheriff\u2019s officials that FBI agents had bribed a deputy to smuggle a cellphone to their inmate informant, a convicted violent felon. The sting operation was part of a larger investigation into allegations of widespread corruption by deputies working in the jails, including claims that inmates were routinely beaten without justification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Baca, whose public persona was <\/span>of <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">a gentle and thoughtful, if eccentric, leader, seethed over what he saw as an incursion into his territory, prosecutors said. His anger fueled a deliberate effort to subvert the FBI and the grand jury impaneled to hear the evidence gathered by the agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Others who participated in the conspiracy testified at the retrial that the sheriff called a meeting early on where he gave the assembled group directions, including to keep the inmate, Anthony Brown, safe and investigate how the phone was smuggled to the inmate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">While Hochman argued at trial that these were reasonable and necessary steps that were quickly perverted by Tanaka, the government said the orders were <\/span>thin<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> cover for Baca\u2019s more malevolent intentions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the ensuing weeks, Brown\u2019s name was erased from jail computer systems and he was re-booked in various facilities under fabricated aliases \u2014 a deception <\/span>done<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> with Baca\u2019s knowledge that was meant to keep the FBI from finding their informant, former sheriff\u2019s officials testified at trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Baca, prosecutors alleged, was also part of a decision to send deputies to the house of the lead FBI agent in the case in an attempt to intimidate her. And he <\/span>was kept<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> abreast of attempts by members of the group to pressure and cajole deputies and Brown to dissuade them from cooperating with the federal investigation, according to prosecution testimony at trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A cache of emails, along with phone records and testimony, led to convictions against Tanaka and the others in the group. But without nearly as much evidence pointing to his knowledge and involvement in the obstruction plan, building a case against Baca proved to be difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Seeing the weakness in their case, prosecutors tried to avoid a trial and struck a deal with Baca last year that called for him to plead guilty to a single count of making false statements to federal investigators and spend no more than six months in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The agreement fell apart when Anderson, who has handed down stiff sentences in the previous obstruction cases, deemed it too lenient and indicated he would put Baca behind bars for longer than six months. Baca opted to withdraw his plea and go to trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After nearly losing in the first trial, prosecutors made changes. They jettisoned several witnesses who had previously testified about the obstruction plan but not about Baca\u2019s alleged involvement, replacing them with, among others, former Capt. William \u201cTom\u201d Carey and former Lt. Greg Thompson. Both men have been convicted in the obstruction case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thompson, who received a 37-month sentence, told jurors that he had been prepared to send Brown to state prison, but that Baca ordered him to keep the FBI informant in the county jails run by the Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And Thompson added a previously unknown detail to a conversation he had with the sheriff. After FBI agents were allowed into the jail to speak with Brown despite orders that he be kept from visitors, Thompson went to the sheriff\u2019s office to apologize.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"2\" data-state=\"pagination_viewed\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Baca, he said, was calm and told Thompson the slip-up was part of a \u201cchess game\u201d \u2014 a statement prosecutors said pointed to Baca\u2019s attempt to outmaneuver federal officials. Fox exploited the chess reference in <\/span>opening<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> and closing statements, referring to Baca as the king of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Carey, who agreed to testify for the government as part of a plea deal and has yet to be sentenced, told jurors Baca was present for a meeting in September where it was decided that two sergeants should go to the home of the lead FBI agent, who had been under surveillance for days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The purported purpose was to question the agent as part of the investigation into the smuggled phone. But in reality, confronting her at her home was meant to send a message of defiance to the FBI and intimidate the agent by threatening her with arrest, Carey said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHe was OK with it,\u201d Carey testified of Baca. \u201cHe didn\u2019t tell us not to do it. His advice to us was just not to put handcuffs on her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the retrial, Baca faced a charge of making several false statements to investigators during an interview he gave Fox and others in 2013, in which he denied knowing about the plan to obstruct the FBI. In the first trial, the judge set the lying charge aside for a later <\/span>trial,<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> but added it back at Fox\u2019s request for the second go-around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Adding the false-statement charge back opened the door for Fox to play excerpts of the interview \u2014 something he could not do in the first trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the face of the government\u2019s adjustments, Baca\u2019s attorney, Nathan Hochman, stuck largely to the script that almost won Baca his freedom in the first trial. He tried to poke holes in the government\u2019s case by emphasizing its circumstantial nature and the lack of a clear smoking gun. He also pounced on Carey as an admitted liar, urging jurors to question his credibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Hochman was hindered by several rulings Anderson made before the retrial. A psychiatrist, for example, was barred from testifying about Baca\u2019s diagnosis with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Hochman had wanted the psychiatrist to share his belief that the illness could explain why Baca might have made inaccurate statements to prosecutors during the recorded interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stymied by Anderson on the types of defenses he could mount, Hochman called only a single witness on Baca\u2019s behalf. Baca did not testify in his own defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<aside class=\"trb_embed\" data-content-size=\"large\" data-content-type=\"blurb\">\n<div id=\"trb_em_b_90893636\" class=\"trb_embed_blurb\" data-load-type=\"commentFrame\" data-frame-width=\"100%\" data-frame-height=\"100%\" data-frame-class=\"trb_em_b_if\" data-frame-scroll=\"no\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"trb_embed trb_filmstrip trb_filmstrip_list_item\" data-content-embedlocation=\"Embed + (3)\" data-content-id=\"87974872\" data-content-size=\"large\" data-content-type=\"gallery\" data-content-slug=\"la-news-video-playlist\" data-content-subtype=\"premiumvideoplaylist\" data-role=\"sc_item gallery carousel gallery_container imgsize_ratiosizecontainer lightbox_container\" data-state=\"gallery_captionClosed\" data-carousel-options=\"moveby=1&amp;filmstripcarousel=true\" data-embed-id=\"87974872\">\n<div class=\"trb_filmstrip_related_panel\" data-role=\"carousel_videopanel multimedia_videoloaded mediamanager_playlistvideo\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0( News Reports)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_filmstrip_holder\" data-role=\"carousel_view\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_modalBox\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0eFlJA4Zsxc?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(Sheriff Lee Baca Resigns January 2014)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Es3SN_AFdsg?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(CNN Report December 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_by\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_by\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, right, and his wife, Carol Chiang, go through security at federal court earlier this month. 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