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<text id=90TT3431>
<title>
Dec. 24, 1990: American Notes:Los Angeles
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 23
American Notes
LOS ANGELES
Keeping The Loot
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<p> 1984 federal law allowed police agencies to keep assets
seized from drug traffickers and money launderers. But not, of
course, for personal use. Last week six members of an elite Los
Angeles County sheriff's narcotics squad were convicted of
conspiring to steal $48,000. They were acquitted of larceny on
a grander scale: spending $1.4 million in confiscated cash on
luxury cars, boats, jewelry and vacation homes.
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<p> The convicted officers may be only the first to fall in a
widening corruption investigation that has tarnished the once
squeaky-clean image of Los Angeles law-enforcement agencies.
Dozens of narcotics agents from both the sheriff's office and
the city police department are suspects. The probe began two
years ago, after a deputy's wife tipped off Sheriff Sherman
Block to the thefts. Block disbanded four of his narcotics
teams and suspended 26 deputies, including some of his most
decorated veterans.
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