The State Bar can conduct depositions of the two former employees as part of its internal investigation into whether insiders helped Girardi sidestep discipline and keep an unblemished law license while he misappropriated money from his clients.
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has been problematic pretty much ever since its inception. Its prior iteration headed up by Sheriff Lee Baca was an abhorrent mess. The LASD was (and still is!) home to gangs formed by deputies cliques that encouraged members to violate rights and abuse those incarcerated in the…