COUNCIL OKS $2.8 MILLION IN RAMPART SETTLEMENTS.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday approved $2.8 million in
settlements in Rampart Division-related cases involving the former
anti-gang CRASH unit.
Council members voted 13-0 to settle the seven cases, which alleged that former Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . anti-gang officers assaulted
suspects, framed them or lied in testimony to win convictions.
Assistant City Attorney Paul Paquette said 70 Rampart-related suits have now been settled, but about 100 remain. ``We think we're doing well by the city in limiting the amounts being paid out,'' Paquette said. Most of the cases involved arrests by former officers Rafael Perez and Nino Durden Gino Floyd Durden (born May 5 1963), known as Nino Durden, was an officer in the elite Los Angeles Police Department Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums unit implicated in the Rampart Scandal. and involved the planting of evidence or false testimony in court. Cases settled included ones involving Samuel Bailey Samuel Bailey (1791-1870), British philosopher and author, was born at Sheffield in 1791. He was among the first of those Sheffield merchants who went to the United States to establish trade connections. , who accepted $475,000 after serving nearly three years in state prison on charges of selling a firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. , and Edgar Escobar, who accepted $425,000, who was falsely convicted for possessing a handgun, served 42 months in state prison and was deported to Mexico. Also, Joseph Jones, $425,000, who served 17 months on drug charges; Raul and Teresa Munoz, $425,000, who served 18 months on charges of attempting to run down two officers; Oscar Ochoa, $350,000, who served 28 months on drug charges; William Zepeda, $465,000, for him, his wife and daughter for imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. on drug charges; and James Mejia, $215,000, who served 13 months on drug charges. |
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