Herrera Saga Not Over

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The LA City Council Ron Herrera scandal isn't going away any time soon. People want to know who would be the beneficiary of planting that bug and who had the opportunity. Could be interesting.

[Faust]

My understanding is that Michele McPhee is doing an investigative story on it.

[Debo]

[Nickjamesups]

Sounds like you know something about it , please let us know .

[percap2high]

Do tell, do tell

Are you saying that this could turn out to be a big "Hollywood" production .... hmmm

[Faust]

Do tell, do tell

Are you saying that this could turn out to be a big "Hollywood" production .... hmmm

Like a Whitey Bulger movie?

[Dudeman44]

This is exactly why, if you ever have damning information about important people, you don't leak it yourself. You contact the press. Whoever got this information out to the public didn't do that - they leaked it to Reddit themselves, and now they have no legal whistleblower protection. Journalists, lawyers, and depending on California's laws on planting bugs and recording consent, possibly law enforcement, are going to dig and dig until the source is identified. Whoever leaked this appears to be a dumbass.

[Faust]

This is exactly why, if you ever have damning information about important people, you don't leak it yourself. You contact the press. Whoever got this information out to the public didn't do that - they leaked it to Reddit themselves, and now they have no legal whistleblower protection. Journalists, lawyers, and depending on California's laws on planting bugs and recording consent, possibly law enforcement, are going to dig and dig until the source is identified. Whoever leaked this appears to be a dumbass.

The investigative journalist apparently has good stuff.

[Dudeman44]

I always assumed it was a disgruntled employee of Herrera's local, but we'll know soon enough.

The LAPD has wielded a wiretapping statute to try to force Reddit into giving them information on the account of the user that posted it. Reddit generally complies when this happens. Especially since California is apparently not a 1-party consent state when it comes to recordings. All parties must know they're being recorded or it's illegal. So whoever leaked the recordings was really sloppy and careless.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/09/...-reddit-users/

[Debo]

[Faust]

They say it's pay back for Ron Herrera referring to O'Brien as his "little brother from Boston."

[percap2high]

Key words from Debo. This won't end with just the obvious suspects in the spotlight.

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https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/...l-leaker-lapd/

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Former International Vice President and former candidate for General Secretary General Ron Herrera at the center of the biggest scandal to hit Los Angeles Gov in many years.

Did I get this right? His now former Executive Assistant, Karla Vasquez's husband, Santos Leon, could be the person who recorded and leaked the racist comments that caused leadership change both in the Teamsters and LA City Government.

Why would he do such a thing?

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[Jazzman]

Holy crap. Herrera had two mistresses? How did he fit it in with all his full time union positions? Now that sex is involved this is almost as good as the stories about the IBT Organizing department.

So an underhanded and probably illegal scheme to get Ron Herrera took down the leadership of one of the most important cities in the world as collateral damage. Quite an achievement, can't wait to hear more.