OPSEC and gangs

[AdamG]

AUGUST 16--In a shocking security breach, a federal court clerk in Los Angeles has been charged with selling information from sealed court documents detailing upcoming arrests and law enforcement raids targeting affiliates of an organized crime syndicate.

Investigators discovered the alleged scheme earlier this year after a leader of the Armenian Power gang began cooperating with federal agents and prosecutors, according to an affidavit sworn by FBI Agent Corrie Lyle.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documen...rrested-578451

LOS ANGELES—As a result of two federal indictments and state cases that charge a total of 99 defendants with a wide range of crimes—including kidnapping, extortion, bank fraud, and narcotics trafficking—law enforcement authorities this morning arrested 74 members and associates of the Armenian Power organized crime group.

http://www.fbi.gov/losangeles/press-...1/la021611.htm
And from 1983, see also
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=5262,1382308

[davidbfpo]

AdamG,

This has been a perennial issue and twenty plus years ago whilst in Arizona, with state LE, I was told drugs would corrupt every single institution. South Florida was portrayed as a "lost cause". The IT age of course has had an impact since then.