Soros-backed LA DA George Gascon's top adviser charged with 11 felonies: report

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AMERICAN NEWS Apr 28, 2024
Soros-backed LA DA George Gascon's top adviser charged with 11 felonies: report
Teran has been accused of improperly downloading confidential records of police officers while she was working for the LA County Sheriff's Department.
 
Katie Daviscourt
Seattle WA
Apr 28, 2024
 

On Wednesday, the California Attorney General's Office filed 11 felony charges against a top adviser to George Soros-backed Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon.


Assistant District Attorney Diana Teran, who faces the felony counts, oversees high-profile sensitive cases including police misconduct, public corruption, and fraud.

She has been charged with 11 felony counts of illegal use of confidential police records, the Los Angeles Times reports.


Teran has been accused by Democrat AG Rob Bonta of improperly downloading confidential records of police officers while she was working for the LA County Sheriff's Department in 2018.

Bonta said that Teran "impermissibly used that data" after being hired to work for Gascon's office three years later, according to the AG's press release.

https://thepostmillennial.com/soros-backed-la-da-george-gascons-top-adviser-charged-will-11-felonies-report?utm_campaign=64487#google_vignette

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That's SOP for democrats so what is the big deal here?   

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This gives some details:

A Massive Scandal Is Brewing in Los Angeles After DA George Gascon's Number 3 Is Charged With 11 Felonies

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/04/29/how-arrest-of-gascons-top-assistant-blow-lid-off-rampant-corruption-la-county-n2173393

That sounds rather vanilla, but additional details on what Teran is alleged to have done demonstrate that there's nothing vanilla about it at all. It's more convoluted than any script Hollywood could come up with. At this time it's not clear specifically which peace officer files Teran has been charged with using improperly since the detailed criminal complaint was filed under seal, but the following information on her activities relating to personnel files has been provided to RedState by numerous sources in law enforcement, county government, and in Gascón's office:

Between 2014-18, as Constitutional Policing Advisor for LASD, Teran withheld exculpatory evidence from Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) investigations and findings, leading to the discipline and termination of deputies who should have been exonerated.

NOTE: Those deputies' personnel files would then contain inaccurate information about their actions, and could improperly taint cases they were involved in.

Starting in June 2018 Teran improperly accessed and downloaded the personnel files of then-candidate Villanueva and other LASD employees who supported his campaign, allegedly at Huntsman's direction.

The weekend before Villanueva was sworn in, according to sources, Huntsman sent Teran into the Sheriff's office with an external hard drive and instructions to gather additional personnel files.

After leaving LASD when Villanueva took office in late 2018, Teran went to work with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and eventually the LA County Public Defender's office, and sources close to the current investigation have told RedState that Teran added information from the personnel files to the Public Defender's database. (She is not charged with doing so currently, and we do not have independent verification of that.)

When Villanueva learned in early 2019 that personnel files had been improperly removed, he initiated an investigation into Teran and Huntsman; Huntsman aligned with anti-cop members of the LA County Board of Supervisors to shut it down.

Teran allegedly used information within one deputy's personnel file to charge him with domestic violence once she was working at the DA's office, just a few days before the statute of limitations would have run.

According to sources within Gascón's office, Teran uploaded the personnel file information into a database (likely the ORWITS database) at Gascón's office.

Teran used the information in these files when she headed up Gascón's re-investigation of officer-involved shootings and use-of-force incidents that had already been cleared under former DA Jackie Lacey, according to sources within Gascón's office, and Gascón was in the room with her when she did so. At least a few of those deputies were criminally charged.

While this quote is long, it is a small percentage of the fairly long article. Ifa Mod feels I quoted too much, please PM me and I will gladly trim it.