Orange County Superior Courtroom Clerk Took Bribes For 5 Years To Own Thousands Of Cases, Including Duis, Traffic Cases, Together Amongst Criminal Cases... Was Paid Well-Nigh A Sum Of 1/4 1 1000 1000 Dollars
Former Orange County Superior Court clerk plead guilty quarta-feira to reaping more than than a quarter-million dollars every combat top dog of a bribery scheme that forged the results of criminal inward improver to traffic violations inward band exchange for money.
Lopez was paid by times nine middlemen to ready courtroom records to demonstrate a favorable resultant for the persons charged, when inward fact, the cases were never ruled upon, prosecutors said.
DUI cases drew the highest prices, every combat Lopez asked every combat much every combat $8,000 to ready those results, according to the indictment.
Records too demonstrate he used the ill-gotten gains inward 2015 to opened upward a Mexican eating theater inward Garden Grove.
The scheme ended inward 2015 when O.C. Superior Court officials began to suspect Lopez of representative tampering.
He gets sentenced Sept 22nd
Lopez is 1 of 13 co-defendants under indictment for violating the RICO Act
Federal agents too arrested 10 of Lopez’s 11 alleged “recruiters,” people who worked outside of the courthouse who went to machine inward improver to truck clubs, inward improver to to Craigslist, to spread the discussion that, for a fee, tickets processed inward Orange County Superior Court could final tweaked inward the driver’s favor.
Ten others stimulate got pleaded guilty together with hence far. An eleventh is scheduled to plead guilty on April 21, inward improver to Javed Asefi, 44, of Ladera Ranch is scheduled to proceed trial on May 2, according to the the U.S. of A. attorney's office.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oc-bribes-plea-20170329-story.html
People who paid the bribes – many non-English speakers from countries where ticket fixing sometimes involves bureaucrats or law pull (read this to recall illegal aliens amongst drivers licenses, run across the previous post) – were solicited right away by times Lopez or by times a recruiter.DUI cases drew the highest prices, every combat Lopez asked every combat much every combat $8,000 to ready those results, according to the indictment.
Records too demonstrate he used the ill-gotten gains inward 2015 to opened upward a Mexican eating theater inward Garden Grove.
The scheme ended inward 2015 when O.C. Superior Court officials began to suspect Lopez of representative tampering.
He gets sentenced Sept 22nd
Lopez is 1 of 13 co-defendants under indictment for violating the RICO Act
Federal agents too arrested 10 of Lopez’s 11 alleged “recruiters,” people who worked outside of the courthouse who went to machine inward improver to truck clubs, inward improver to to Craigslist, to spread the discussion that, for a fee, tickets processed inward Orange County Superior Court could final tweaked inward the driver’s favor.
Ten others stimulate got pleaded guilty together with hence far. An eleventh is scheduled to plead guilty on April 21, inward improver to Javed Asefi, 44, of Ladera Ranch is scheduled to proceed trial on May 2, according to the the U.S. of A. attorney's office.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oc-bribes-plea-20170329-story.html
The FBI probe was kicked off afterward a courtroom employee noticed a single document was missing; the file contained the clerk’s employee ID. Soon, other DUIs inward improver to other traffic cases tied to Lopez were inspected.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lopez-728181-cases-prosecutors.html
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/court-667679-defendants-borris.html
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