LA County Settles With an FBI Informant For $1 Million
An FBI informant whose reports of abuse inside Los Angeles County jails helped set off a federal investigation that led to the convictions of nearly two dozen sheriff’s officials will get a $1-million payout from the county.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to approve the settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed by Anthony Brown, a convicted bank robber who worked as an informant for FBI agents investigating conditions in county jails. In 2011, when they discovered he was helping the FBI, sheriff’s officials attempted to hide him from agents to stop him from reporting brutality in the lockups.
Sheriff’s officials shuffled him from jail to jail under fake names, like “Robin Banks.” He filed a lawsuit alleging, among other things, cruel and unusual punishment and retaliation.
