Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca indicted in jail corruption scandal

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was indicted Friday on federal charges alleging that he conspired to obstruct justice and lied to the federal govement in coection with inmate civil rights abuses and corruption inside the county’s jails.

Baca, 74, was indicted by a grand jury on three charges just days after he told a federal judge Monday he would plead not guilty and stand trial in coection with the scandal that has already taken down almost a dozen of his former deputies and his second in command.

If convicted on all counts, the total maximum time Baca faces is 20 years in federal prison, according to prosecutors.

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