LAPD detectives continue to investigate what is being called the “undetermined death” of an FBI informant who had been subpoenaed as a witness by the House Intelligence Committee investigating Deutsche Bank and its ties to former President Donald Trump.
Valentin Broeksmit, 45, was found dead in a courtyard of the Woodrow Wilson High School in El Sereno on the morning of April 25 when school employees showed up for Monday morning classes at 7:05 a.m. PST. There was no sign of trauma and “no foul play is suspected at this time, LAPD officials said.
What remains unclear is how Broeksmit, who called himself a “comically terrible spy” on his Twitter profile, got into the locked facility before his death. Sources told Los Angeles magazine, “He has no connection to that area, that school and no one knows how he got in.”
“We have a guy found dead in a secure high school on a Monday morning who was working with the feds and whose father suicided himself,” said one investigator with direct knowledge of the case. “The circumstances alone merit a second look.”
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s report on Broeksmit’s body did not determine a cause or manner of death, writing that the case is pending, and awaiting “additional information.” The LAPD believes that Broeksmit “was alone on the grounds of the school must of the weekend preceding his death.” The case has been assigned to a homicide unit detective.
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