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Javier Francisco Ovando is famous today, but back in 1996 no one much cared when cops stormed his apartment near downtown Los Angeles and shot him in the chest and head. Ovando belonged to the 18th Street Gang, a group of powerful Mexican drug lords. At trial, the judge lectured the skinny 19-year-old--who lay paralyzed on a gurney--for threatening the lives of two brave cops, and sent him away for 23 years...
...like the police beating of Rodney King. But L.A. is embroiled in its biggest police scandal ever, one that makes Joseph Wambaugh read like tepid tea. Authorities have identified 40 people who were wrongly convicted, and public defenders are reviewing 4,000 more cases. The cops "are just a gang with the law on their side," says Gerardo ("Clever") Lopez, a former gang member. "People are finally seeing the truth...
...heart of the scandal is the Rampart division's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, or CRASH. Perez is reportedly claiming that 70 to 80 members of this antigang unit were "in the loop," that is, acting a lot like gang members. Among their rituals: decorating their bodies with tattoos of grinning skulls and awarding themselves gruesome plaques for shooting perps...
Taking possession of employer shares can cut your tax bill. When you eventually sell, the profit is taxed as a capital gain at 20% for most people. An IRA distribution, on the other hand, is taxed as income--at up to 39.6%. Basic math, gang. Here are questions from my mail and answers, with an assist from Ed Slott, editor of Ed Slott's IRA Advisor. Ed has more on his website at irahelp.com To read my earlier column, see time.com/personal...
...tenured Harvard professor is afraid to speak on the record, might I be in for more than I bargained? Has the Ivory Tower Mafia put the kibosh on chit-chat for secret, sordid reasons best left unexplored? More important, can tweed coats carry switchblades? Do corduroy patches cover gang signs? Are the cops going to find my mangled remains in a cement factory down the road from the next Modern Language Association convention...