{"id":12708,"date":"2014-09-23T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2014-09-23T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:26:48","slug":"banana-republicans-watch-september-23-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12708","title":{"rendered":"Banana republicans watch: September 23, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The six members of the LA County Sheriff&#8217;s Department who were convicted of obstructing a FBI investigation were sentenced today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-sentencing-la-county-sheriffs-officials-20140923-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Former Lt. Gregory Thompson was sentenced to 37 months; Lt. Stephen Leavins to 41 months; Sgt. Scott Craig to 33 months; Sgt. Maricela Long to 24 months; Deputy Gerard Smith to 21 months; and Deputy Mickey Manzo to 24 months.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12412\" target=\"_blank\">Previously.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/countygovernment\/la-me-deputy-corruption-trial-20140917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">And a seventh LACSO deputy was convicted last week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six members of the LA County Sheriff&#8217;s Department who were convicted of obstructing a FBI investigation were sentenced today. Former Lt. Gregory Thompson was sentenced to 37 months; Lt. Stephen Leavins to 41 months; Sgt. Scott Craig to 33 months; Sgt. Maricela Long to 24 months; Deputy Gerard Smith to 21 months; and Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,14,105,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-uber-alles","category-clippings","category-cops","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}