Two former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies and former members of the British and Australian militaries are facing decades in prison after they allegedly extorted an Irvine man out of tens of millions of dollars.
The four allegedly “acted as a sham law enforcement team” when they entered the home of the man, who has not been publicly identified, and threatened him and his family with violence and deportation in 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.
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Despite the threats of deportation if he reported the incident, the victim immediately contacted the Irvine Police Department.
“Lankford thereafter spoke with an IPD officer and falsely claimed that he had been at Victim 1’s home for a legitimate law enforcement purpose, that Victim 1 consented to all parties being in his home, and that no force was used,” the release said.
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The defendants were hired by an “unindicted co-conspirator” to coerce the man into signing away almost $37 million in cash and shares of a Chinese business the unindicted co-conspirator and the man owned together that were worth an additional “tens of millions of dollars,” the release said.
are what get me. All it took to get away with it for 5 years was a cop involved in the raid calling another cop. No investigation, no more questions, nothing after that. Was it incompetence? Corruption? Whatever it was, it’s a load of horsecrap. And the unindicted co-conspirator, why isn’t she getting charged, too? I just don’t get it.
