Making crime pay while paying for a crime?

OK, so I'm kind of scared to write this post. (Is it totally chicken to say Garrett Therolf is the one working on the story?) Among the bank accounts maintained by the L.A. County Jail so inmates can buy snacks, phone cards and other extras, the ones belonging to a Mafia hit man and two bank robbers are among those that grew by $5,000 or more during incarceration. Garrett reports:

Some inmates are engaging in large transactions, and it's possible that the in-house bank may be helping to facilitate further crime, the Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury reported Monday. No effort was made to determine whether the deposits came from legitimate sources.

Here's the key section of the report:

"Although we appreciate that those inmates who have large quantities of money in their accounts, in some cases hundreds or thousands of dollars, represent a very small percentage of the jail population, we also recognize that those at the top of the inmate pecking order, the most powerful and dangerously well-connected, are likewise a very small percentage of the jail population.

The thought of these “shot-callers” having large sums of money at their disposal is disturbing. Certain possibilities come to mind, including bribery, money-laundering, and violence for hire."

Garrett's full story is here.

--Veronique de Turenne

Comments

[dharc]

We will all be pushing hamburgers with hundreds of millions of illegals and no one will speak English.

[dharc]

We will all be flippin burritos with hundreds of millions of illegal aliens. And no one will speak English.