Investigators accuse Orange County D.A. of cover-ups, interfering with investigations
LAT
May 27, 2017
Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas
and other officials interfered in multiple investigations and covered
up criminal conduct by police, according to claims filed Friday by two
investigators with the district attorney’s office.
In their filings, Tom Conklin and Abraham Santos cited three high-profile cases that they said officials had suppressed.
One involved a former Cypress Police Department
investigator accused of committing perjury during a capital murder
trial. Another case revolved around the alleged cover-up by Fullerton
police of a former city manager’s drunk driving. Conklin and Santos said
they were removed from the investigation into a third case, involving a
man who they believed was planning a “Sandy Hook”-level mass shooting.
The whistle-blower claims are precursors to a lawsuit...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Documents Show General Motors Kept Silent on Fatal Crashes
By REBECCA R. RUIZ and DANIELLE IVORY
New York Times
JULY 15, 2014
In a truly civil society, corporate executives would do hard prison time for contributing to or covering up death and destruction.
Mike Velemirovich, Nova Scotia
How can GM corporate individuals remain completely unpunished after making such terrible decisions?? It defies logic. They are brazen... The car crash that killed Gene Erickson caught the attention of federal regulators. Why did the Saturn Ion he was traveling in, along a rural Texas road, suddenly swerve into a tree? Why did the air bags fail? General Motors told federal authorities that it could not provide answers.
But only a month earlier, a G.M. engineer had concluded in an internal evaluation that the Ion had most likely lost power, disabling its air bags, according to a subsequent internal investigation commissioned by G.M.
Now, G.M.'s response, as well as its replies to queries in other crashes obtained by The New York Times from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, casts doubt on how forthright the automaker was with regulators over a defective ignition switch that G.M. has linked to at least 13 deaths over the last decade.
They provide details for the first time on the issue at the heart of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department: whether G.M., in its interaction with safety regulators, obscured a deadly defect that would also injure perhaps hundreds of people...
By REBECCA R. RUIZ and DANIELLE IVORY
New York Times
JULY 15, 2014
In a truly civil society, corporate executives would do hard prison time for contributing to or covering up death and destruction.
Mike Velemirovich, Nova Scotia
How can GM corporate individuals remain completely unpunished after making such terrible decisions?? It defies logic. They are brazen... The car crash that killed Gene Erickson caught the attention of federal regulators. Why did the Saturn Ion he was traveling in, along a rural Texas road, suddenly swerve into a tree? Why did the air bags fail? General Motors told federal authorities that it could not provide answers.
But only a month earlier, a G.M. engineer had concluded in an internal evaluation that the Ion had most likely lost power, disabling its air bags, according to a subsequent internal investigation commissioned by G.M.
Now, G.M.'s response, as well as its replies to queries in other crashes obtained by The New York Times from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, casts doubt on how forthright the automaker was with regulators over a defective ignition switch that G.M. has linked to at least 13 deaths over the last decade.
They provide details for the first time on the issue at the heart of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department: whether G.M., in its interaction with safety regulators, obscured a deadly defect that would also injure perhaps hundreds of people...
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