It’s never good when your co-defendant pleads guilty, but that’s exactly what happened to Mark Ridley-Thomas on Tuesday.
Jury selection begins Wednesday, September 21 in the Laurie Smith public corruption trial.
“Despite numerous attempts by the County to secure a reliable timeline as to when UCSB will build the required housing, there is no timeline or commitment by UCSB for when the requirement will be addressed,” said County Supervisor Gregg Hart. “Litigation was the only path remaining to compel UCSB to act upon their obligation.”
The State Controller’s Office sued the county in May over the actions of its former auditor-controller Karen Paz Dominguez.
County jail deputies took hours to respond to her cries and then stopped at a Starbucks on the way to the hospital, the lawsuit said.
County officials “view Asian Americans as a monolithic group of which every single person is part of a violent drug cartel and blame the County’s widespread cannabis cultivation on Asian Americans in explicitly racialized terms, notwithstanding that cannabis has been grown in the County for decades,” according to the complaint.
The U.S. is just eight days away from defaulting on its debt, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday.
Los Angeles County has 60 days to transfer some 280 youths out of the Barry J. Nidorf and Central juvenile halls following a decision by state regulators on Tuesday.
Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a $306.5 billion revised budget proposal Friday amid a shortfal