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| Top Advisor to LA DA Gascon Arrested, Allegedly Stole LA Sheriff Deputy Personnel Files |
| 2024-04-26 |
| [RedState] One of LA County District Attorney George Gascon's top employees, Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations Diana Teran, has been arrested on 11 felony charges related to the "unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily-protected peace officer files." According to a press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Teran "accessed computer data including numerous confidential peace officer files in 2018, while working as a Constitutional Policing Advisor at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and, after joining the LADA in January 2021, impermissibly used that data at the LADA." Sources familiar with the events described in the warrant and the investigation have given RedState additional details. The sources requested anonymity since they were not authorized to speak to the media. Starting in June 2018, when Alex Villanueva made a good showing in the primary election for LA County Sheriff against his former boss, then-incumbent Sheriff Jim McDonnell, Teran improperly accessed and downloaded the personnel files of Villanueva and other LASD employees who supported his campaign. Sources say this was done at the direction of county Inspector General Max Huntsman, who is also currently under investigation by AG Bonta. Teran's actions ramped up in November 2018 when underdog Villanueva unseated McDonnell, marking the first time an incumbent Sheriff lost re-election in 104 years. The weekend before Villanueva was sworn in, according to sources, Huntsman sent Teran into the Sheriff's office with an external hard drive and instructions to gather additional personnel files. About a month after Villanueva took office he got wind of what had happened and alerted the California AG's office and the FBI. The FBI told Villanueva's office they'd provide technical assistance but there was nothing they could really do, and the AG's office gave Villanueva's office the go-ahead to investigate themselves. Villanueva then tasked a deputy who was an IT expert with investigating the breach. Sources say that expert found that Teran had improperly accessed and copied thousands of personnel files, which accounts were used to access the system, and found emails instructing which files to obtain and when. That information was turned over to the AG's office "several years ago," according to the source, eventually leading to today's arrest. Sources speaking to RedState say they cannot share specific examples of how Teran impermissibly used the data once she was in Gascon's office at this time. After Villanueva took office, Teran went to work at the Office of the Inspector General with Huntsman. Related: George Gascon 11/15/2023 Loudoun County Voters Fire Soros Prosecutor Buta Biberaj, Elect Republican Bob AndersonGeorge Gascon 10/26/2023 Terrifying moment 'demon possessed' homeless man unzips pants and thrusts himself against his victim but woke 'LA DA says it's not attempted rape because attacker didn't say that's what he was going to do'George Gascon 06/11/2023 George Soros' Last Bet: Destroy Russia and Fool China |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #7 Villanueva is not the kind of guy who will play ball with crooks like Bonta and Gascon. He must have found a way to pressure them into arresting Teran because otherwise I don't think they would have. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-04-26 12:59 |
| #6 If a Democrat hack like AG Bonta had this woman arrested she must have screwed up really bad. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-04-26 12:42 |
| #5 "Assistant DA for Ethics and Integrity." I do wonder about anyone with "Ethics" in her title. Especially if it's "her" title. |
| Posted by: Tom 2024-04-26 11:18 |
| #4 G. Gordon Liddy Lest we forget. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-26 11:17 |
| #3 ^ may have been a bad thing but was it wrong? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-26 11:15 |
| #2 She went full G Gordon Liddy. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-04-26 10:22 |
| #1 Predicted punishment - 40 hours of community service mowing grass in a cemetery, $50 fine, a slap on the wrist by the CA Bar and a jail sentence of... time served! |
| Posted by: Raj 2024-04-26 09:15 |