Kuehl held a press conference outside her Santa Monica home after sheriff’s deputies went inside to execute the search warrant, calling the probe a “bogus non-investigation.”
She revealed to the media that she had been told about the warrant the previous night by L.A. County Inspector General Max Huntsman as well as an unnamed county attorney.
Villanueva called for an investigation in a letter to Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), accusing the county officials who tipped off Kuehl of “illegally alerting them.”
“The illegal acts committed by Mr. Huntsman and County Counsel have potentially comprised the integrity of this criminal investigation including, but not limited to, the concealment or destruction of evidence,” Villanueva wrote in his letter.
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