ICYMI •County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl was escorted from her home at 7 a.m. •Her home was searched, her phone confiscated •'I don't think there is any question that this is political retaliation,” Kuehl said, blaming Sheriff Alex Villanueva. MORE ⤵️
to the state Attorney General’s Office calling for an investigation into whether county counsel or the Office of the Inspector General tipped Kuehl and Giggans off about the search warrants ahead of time.In an interview, Kuehl said she received a late-night text message from county counsel about a rumor that her home was going to be searched the next morning. The next day, deputies pounded on her door about 7 a.m. and escorted her outside.
Loew received nearly half a million dollars in exchange for her resignation from Metro and signed a nondisclosure agreement that bars her from speaking about many of the same individuals named in the sheriff’s investigation, according to her husband, Adam Loew. The affidavit states that the unnamed whistleblower alleged former Metro CEO Phil Washington at one point ordered her to pay a $75,000 bill from Peace Over Violence “so he could later use that to his advantage when he needed a political favor from Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.”
“There is nothing supporting this warrant,” she said. “The judge who signed it is a friend of the sheriff, so there were multiple searches today for virtually no reason.” Sotero on Wednesday said Metro is fully cooperating with the Sheriff’s Department to comply with the warrants.
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