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Former assistant Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who performed the post of Deputy Mayor of Public Security, agreed to acknowledge the guilt of threatening to bombard the City Hall last year, the Ministry of Justice said on Thursday.
Brian Williams, 61, of Pasadena, agreed to acknowledge the guilt for the one -off number of “Information with Threats regarding fire and explosives”, which bears a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
“In a time of fierce political rhetoric that sometimes escalated into violence, we cannot allow public officers to convey bomb threats,” said US lawyer Bill Essayli. “My office will continue the efforts to keep the public, including those who violate their duty to support the law.”
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A look at the Los Angeles City Hall. (Getty Images)
The threat was carried out on October 3, 2024. During the virtual meeting with Williams and others related to his duties, federal prosecutors said. During the call of Williams used Google Voice The application on your personal cell phone to call for your mobile phone issued by the City.
He then left the meeting and called the head of the Los Angeles Police Directorate, in which he falsely stated that he had just received an invitation to his cellphone that had issued a city from an unknown man who threatened to bombard the Los Angeles City Hall.
Ten minutes after the call, Williams sent a bass and several senior city officials in the mayor’s office and falsely reported: “A bomb threat: I received a phone call to my city cell this morning at 10:48. The male caller said he was” tired of the city support for Israel, and he decided to put a bomb in city councilors. I immediately contacted the LAPD staff chief, they will send numerous officers to search the building and determine if someone else has received a threat. ”
Investigators found that Williams had never received a call and that he had threatened the bomb itself. Federal prosecutors noticed that Williams never intended to perform threat.
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La’s mayor Karen Bass has weighed the employee’s resignation, claiming on Friday: “I’m glad that the responsible employee resigned.” (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Lapd responded to the City Hall to look for any suspicious devices. No one was found, prosecutors said.
Williams described a threatening call he claimed to have received the police and showed them a recording of an incoming call that appeared as a blocked number on his cellphone issued by the City.
That arrival record of the call was the call that Williams set himself from the Google Voice app on his personal cell phone, investigators determined.
Williams then sent bass and other city officials.
“At this point, there is no need to evacuate the building, I meet with threat management officers in the next 10 minutes,” he reportedly wrote. “In the light of Jewish holidays, we take this topic a little more serious. I’ll let you know.”
Mayor Los Angeles Karen Bass, left, then Mayor of Public Security Brian K. Williams and LAPD chief Michel Moore at the LAPD Police Academy on December 7, 2023 in Los Angeles. Williams will be guilty of the threat that he will bombard the City Hall building last year, the Ministry of Justice said. (Getty Images)
“Mr. Williams, a former deputy mayor of public security for Los Angeles, not only issued the inhabitants of Los Angeles, but also the officers who were responsible for the integrity of the office itself, making a bomb threat,” said Akil Davis, Assistant Director in Los Angeles. “Government officials are held according to an enhanced standard as we rely on them to protect the city.
Williams will be expected to appear in court In the coming weeks, prosecutors said.
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