This week, the news about Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva keeps on coming.
So, before we get to the main topic of this story, a few updates:
On Monday of this week, April 4, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey ruled that the head of the nation’s largest sheriff’s department must comply with a subpoena to answer questions under oath about the ongoing problem of deputy gangs.
“He should testify under oath, and I’m ordering him to do so,” said Judge Mackey, whose ruling denied a motion to quash the subpoena by Villanueva’s attorney, Linda C. Miller Savitt, to quash the subpoena.
The sheriff will answer the OIG’S questions, said Savitt to the judge. “He just doesn’t want to testify under oath.”
“He’s going to be forced to testify under oath. Period.” snapped Mackey, a former U.S. Marine who has been on the bench since 1978.
Predictably, by Monday afternoon, Villanueva had churned out an email announcing his intention to appeal Judge Mackey’s ruling regarding the subpoena, which he designated a “political weapon.”
By Wednesday, the sheriff redirected his ire, and devoted much of his live address on Facebook and Instagram, to a weird and counterfactual character assassination of Robert Greene, the widely respected member of LA Times editorial board, who won the Pulitzer Prize last year for editorial writing.
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