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4 former officers accused of staging sham raid to extort nearly $37 million from California man (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave to c/news

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The former law enforcement and military officers are accused of going through with the fake raid in June 2019, federal prosecutors say.

Four former law enforcement and military officers are accused of conducting a sham raid on a California businessman’s home in 2019 and forcing him to sign away rights to his business worth tens of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors said.

The defendants, at the behest of the victim’s business partner who financed the “bogus raid,” entered the businessman’s home in Irvine and physically assaulted him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a statement Monday.

The four phony officers — acting as if it were a legitimate law enforcement operation — forced the man to sign over paperwork relinquishing his multimillion-dollar interest in Jiangsu Sinorgchem, a Chinese rubber chemical manufacturer, which the victim and his business partner had been in a dispute about for years, prosecutors said.

The man’s wife and two children were home during the raid. The victim was not identified by name, and neither was his business partner, a woman who was identified only as unindicted co-conspirator 1, a “wealthy Chinese national,” the U.S. attorney's office said.

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[–] Etterra 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Normally I'd be in favor of squeezing millions of dollars out of some rich person, but it's the cops doing it and I hate the cops. Can we eat both sides?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Mmmm, cow AND pig