FBI targets LA’s City Hall, DWP in scathing investigation

[PeteS in CA]

FBI targets LA’s City Hall, DWP in scathing investigation

FBI agents descended on Los Angeles’s City Hall and a public utilities agency Monday amid a wide-ranging federal probe into the local government, according to a new report.

Federal agents targeted City Hall, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times, with an FBI van spotted outside the section that houses City Attorney Mike Feuer and several other government departments.

A rep for Feuer refused to say whether agents had come into the city attorney’s office, the Times said.

But the FBI publicly acknowledged that its investigators, armed with a search warrant, were at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Monday.

“There is a search taking place at the DWP building. The affidavit in support of the search warrant is under seal by the court,” said FBI spokesman Rukelt Dalberis to the Times.

I'm not a SoCal resident, but one thing for which LA's DWP is "famous" is a local TV station filming DWP crews spending work hours in restaurants and such. Last I heard the DWP did nothing. Maybe someone from or near the Land of LA could fill in details and updates.

[Sanguine]

What would it be to get the feds involved?