New Orangish County Superior Courtroom Clerk Took Bribes For Five Years To Stimulate Thousands Of Cases, Including Duis, Traffic Cases, Together With Criminal Cases... Was Paid Well-Nigh A Full Of 1/4 1000000 Dollars
Former Orange County Superior Court clerk plead guilty Midweek to reaping to a greater extent than than a quarter-million dollars every bit caput of a bribery system that forged the results of criminal in addition to traffic violations inward telephone substitution for money.
Lopez was paid past times nine middlemen to ready courtroom records to exhibit 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 bit Lopez asked every bit much every bit $8,000 to ready those results, according to the indictment.
Records likewise exhibit he used the ill-gotten gains inward 2015 to opened upward a Mexican eatery inward Garden Grove.
The system ended inward 2015 when O.C. Superior Court officials began to suspect Lopez of example tampering.
He gets sentenced Sept 22nd
Lopez is 1 of thirteen co-defendants nether indictment for violating the RICO Act
Federal agents likewise arrested 10 of Lopez’s 11 alleged “recruiters,” people who worked exterior of the courthouse who went to machine in addition to truck clubs, in addition to to Craigslist, to spread the give-and-take that, for a fee, tickets processed inward Orange County Superior Court could last tweaked inward the driver’s favor.
Ten others accept pleaded guilty then far. An eleventh is scheduled to plead guilty on Apr 21, in addition to Javed Asefi, 44, of Ladera Ranch is scheduled to become on trial on May 2, according to the the US 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 police describe (read this to hateful illegal aliens alongside drivers licenses, encounter the previous post) – were solicited straight past times Lopez or past times a recruiter.DUI cases drew the highest prices, every bit Lopez asked every bit much every bit $8,000 to ready those results, according to the indictment.
Records likewise exhibit he used the ill-gotten gains inward 2015 to opened upward a Mexican eatery inward Garden Grove.
The system ended inward 2015 when O.C. Superior Court officials began to suspect Lopez of example tampering.
He gets sentenced Sept 22nd
Lopez is 1 of thirteen co-defendants nether indictment for violating the RICO Act
Federal agents likewise arrested 10 of Lopez’s 11 alleged “recruiters,” people who worked exterior of the courthouse who went to machine in addition to truck clubs, in addition to to Craigslist, to spread the give-and-take that, for a fee, tickets processed inward Orange County Superior Court could last tweaked inward the driver’s favor.
Ten others accept pleaded guilty then far. An eleventh is scheduled to plead guilty on Apr 21, in addition to Javed Asefi, 44, of Ladera Ranch is scheduled to become on trial on May 2, according to the the US attorney's office.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oc-bribes-plea-20170329-story.html
The FBI probe was kicked off later a courtroom employee noticed a unmarried document was missing; the file contained the clerk’s employee ID. Soon, other DUIs in addition 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