Re: Prosecutor: L.A.'s Communist D.A. Dropped Election Data Case Because It Might Help Trump

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/17/prosecutor-california-da-dropped-bombshell-election-data-case-because-it-might-help-trump/

For political reasons, Los Angeles D.A. George Gascon dismissed the criminal
charges against Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, says the lead prosecutor on the case.

L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon improperly-- and for political
reasons-- dismissed the criminal charges against the CEO of election software
services company Konnech, a governmental tort complaint filed Wednesday by the
lead prosecutor on the case claims. That eight-page complaint against Gascon
with the county Board of Supervisors further alleges the D.A. retaliated
against his lead prosecutor for opposing the dismissal of the charges-- and
reveals many more previously unknown and troubling details about the entire
case.

On Oct. 4, 2022, the L.A. County district attorney's office announced Eugene
Yu, the CEO of the Michigan-based Konnech, had been arrested in conjunction
with criminal charges pending in California. In announcing Yu's arrest, the
D.A.'s office stated that "under its $2.9 million, five-year contract with the
county, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and that only
United States citizens and permanent residents have access to it." However, in
violation of the contract, "information was stored on servers in the People's
Republic of China," according to the press release.

Oh for fuck's sake

Yu was later arrested and extradited to California, where the far-left Gascon
eventually dismissed the criminal charges against Yu. L.A. County later also
approved a $5 million payout to Yu to settle a civil lawsuit the Konnech CEO
had filed against the government.

Waitaminit

The prosecutor dropped charges and then became a witness for the plaintiff?
Isn't this a breach of ethical conduct?

From a legal perspective, the dismissal of the criminal charges was
baffling, as the criminal complaint filed against Yu stated that during
the execution of a search warrant at Konnech, the government recovered
evidence that employees had "sent personal identifying information of Los
Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who
assisted with the creating and fixing [of] Konnech's internal 'PollChief'
software." The criminal complaint further stated that a project manager
for Konnech's contract with L.A. County "confirmed via the messaging app
DingTalk that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief
software had 'super-administrative' privileges for all PollChief clients."

This guy is so incredibly guilty.

Politics, however, seemed to explain Gascon's decision, as soon after news of
Yu's arrest broke, the right-leaning group True the Vote issued a press
release, stating:

    True the Vote is honored to have played a small role in
    what must have been a wide-ranging and complex
    investigation. The organization is profoundly grateful
    to the Los Angeles District Attorney's office for their
    thorough work and rapid action in this matter.

Gregg Phillips, a former board member of True the Vote, claimed he had
testified "in the grand jury in Los Angeles County that eventually indicted
Mr. Yu."

Is this true? Surely there are records.

As I reported at the time, Gascon's office initially claimed Phillips played
no role in the investigation but later acknowledged Phillips' report to the
Public Integrity Division was "the first step in a thorough independent and
still ongoing investigation which ultimately led to the arrest and charging of
Mr. Yu."

The reasonable inference from these facts-- that the decision to drop the
charges against Konnech was a political one-- now has further support by the
complaint filed by lead prosecutor Eric Neff.

Neff's complaint to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, filed by Neff's
attorney as notice of a "governmental tort claim"-- a prerequisite to suing
civilly-- provides a behind-the-scenes summary of the investigation, the
resulting charges, and the eventual dismissal.

According to Neff, Yu, through Konnech, provided services to Los Angeles under
a nearly $3 million contract: "As part of this contract, Konnech was entrusted
with sensitive and confidential information regarding county election
workers..." Following an investigation and the eventual execution of a search
warrant at Konnech, Yu's "computer servers were confiscated," Neff explained.

District attorney investigators, according to Neff's complaint,
"recovered several explosive pieces of evidence in the form of electronic
communications as well as one cooperating witness-- an employee
with knowledge of the company's facially inadequate practices and
procedures." That evidence showed, according to Neff, that "Konnech was
sending sensitive [Personal Identifying Information] data to Chinese-owned
and operated third-party contractors through Chinese-owned and operated
messaging applications."

Tik Tok?

I can't comment on the rest but it certainly appears that they've gotten
the goods on Gascon. I look forward to his disbarment.

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