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U.S. Attorney on Terror and Corruption
Debra Yang, U.S. Attorney, outlined new Federal strategy saying, "In this Administration our goal is to disrupt and dismantle; our goal is not to have the crime actually occur."
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 25, 2004 -- According to Debra Yang, U. S. Attorney for the Central California District "the war on terror" has changed Federal law enforcement priorities from prosecution to prevention. In this part 2 of her interview with Emmy Award winning FULL DISCLOSURE host Leslie Dutton, Yang outlined new Federal strategy saying, "In this Administration our goal is to disrupt and dismantle; our goal is not to have the crime actually occur." Yang also described the 80 recent arrests at L. A. International Airport where individuals who had obtained security badges while using false IDs and employment applications, and who also had criminal records and were in the country illegally.
Public corruption is also high priority in the U. S. Attorney's office. Yang said that corruption in the contract bidding process cannot be tolerated "because the minute you let a little bit of that happen then everybody else thinks it is OK." She said, "You have to have absolute open air policy with the bidding."
This Part 2 of the FULL DISCLOSURE interview with Debra Yang is set to air worldwide on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week starting Thursday, July 23nd on the STREAMING page at http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Program_Details/400_Debra_Yang.htm
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Asked if the U. S. Attorney's office ever considered the risk of loosing big prosecution cases before they a public corruption case, Yang said, "Absolutely not. I think that one of the things that our office is sort of famous for is not assessing that risk." "The only goal is to find our what exactly happened and if there was criminal conduct involved."
FULL DISCLOSURE host Leslie Dutton has been conducting a series of interviews with local prosecutors and investigators involved in the Belmont Learning Center investigations. The series is entitled http://www.fulldisclosure.net/belmont_learning_center_and_LAUSD.htm ["BELMONT: The World's Most Expensive High School"]. Costs to date for the development are $175 million, which was financed in 1997 with non-voter approved, tax-exempt bonds known as Certificates of Participation (COP's). The Los Angeles Unified School Board has already approved an additional $110 million for remediation of environmental hazards on the Belmont campus, which was built on top of 1,000 closed oil wells and is plagued with methane gas and hydrogen sulfide. On Tuesday, June 22, 2004 the LAUSD board approved the project's environmental impact report, paving the way for completion of the stymied project.
This program and other Belmont programs can be viewed at http://www.fulldisclosure.net/ via video streaming on demand. A cable channel guide with airtimes is available on the website.
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