LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is facing yet another whistleblower lawsuit accusing him and the department of corruption and retaliation.
Sgt. Vanessa Chow, a 21-year veteran of the department, says her role as a liaison between the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors put her in the crosshairs of Villanueva's "war against the BOS."
In her newly filed lawsuit, Chow says she also became a target in part because her husband, Detective Jefferson Chow, was the lead investigator in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's investigation into the September 2018 Banditos deputy gang attack at Kennedy Hall in East Los Angeles.
The victims in that attack -- who were younger, non-Bandito deputies -- say they were beaten and strangled by the older Bandito deputies to the point they believed they might die. Three of the alleged Bandito deputies were later fired and one retired.
But the District Attorney's Office declined to file criminal charges in the case, citing "insufficient evidence."
Detective Jefferson Chow testified two weeks ago at a special hearing into deputy gangs that he was specifically ordered to not ask questions about the Banditos in his investigation of the Banditos attack.
Chow's investigative log shows an entry from Nov. 27, 2018, that reads, "cancelled interviews due to Captain/Chief Burson. He wanted to make sure I did not have to ask questions about subcultures groups at ELA station."
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