When a Bond isn’t a Bond

There was a virtual media blackout when Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lieutenant Reggie Wright Sr. and former Compton Police Officer Reggie Wright Jr. aka "The Boogieman” was arrested for drug trafficking and money laundering. The case stemmed out of Memphis so there would be almost no influence from the Los Angeles power structure. Almost!!!

Is it even legal for an Assistant US Attorney to interlineate on a Federal Document? Is it ethical? What would be the purpose? Especially a bond document that nullifies the bond?

This is scandalous!!! Why would a US Attorney put his career on the line for this scum? Wright Jr. has long maintained that he was protected by the CIA. Perhaps it is true. He is at least protected by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, who have been coming after former Mayor Omar Bradley for the past 17 years. Junior posted on Facebook that he is really the force behind the District Attorney’s pursuit because Bradley disbanded the Compton Police Department. Is it true? Junior’s former patrol partner left the Compton Police Department to become an Assistant District Attorney so he may have sufficient sway to actually be the force behind Bradley’s prosecution (trial starts today).

Bradley was convicted of corruption, served three years in prison and had the conviction overturned on appeal. The D.A.’s office ignored the "Double Jeopardy” provision in the United States Constitution and continued to pursue him timing all of their pursuit with the election cycle. That seems to match Reggie Wright Junior’s claim that this "witch hunt” is politically motivated.

Hard to argue with Reggie Wright Jr. when his own bail is $50k. Wright Sr., the former Lieutenant in the Sheriff’s Department has an interlineated provision in his 50k bond that nullifies the entire purpose of the bond. "Waived that any violation of any condition of release could result in bond forfeiture,” is initialed by Andrew Brown who is an Assistant US Attorney. Why do notorious corrupt police get special treatment? In similar type cases bail isn’t granted or would be significant enough to ensure that nobody fled or violated the terms of their bond release. In this case there is a clause that ensures that Giles Wright, the brother of Reggie Wright Sr., according to this document, will not lose his money even if Reggie Wright Sr. violates the terms of his release. So is this really a bond? They needed a piece of paper for the file so this document was drafted with a clause that invalidates the entire purpose for a bond. But we are all watching...

Typically, the accused is barred from possessing weapons, consorting with felons, and leaving their house arrest. The purpose of this is to stop any of the accused from obstructing justice by intimidating witnesses or destroying evidence or cleaning up their mess by killing people. But no such restrictions exist on Wright Sr.’s bond as interlineated by US Attorney Andrew Brown. This is truly scandalous!!!

This is an outrage!!! We should all demand that these criminals that have been getting away with so many crimes for so many years be held without bail so we can all be safer.

These guys have been involved in corruption for years. The Compton Police Corruption Report mentions them both by name. In fact, that report was commissioned when a gun that was supposed to be sitting in the evidence locker was used to shoot Long Beach Police Officer, Brian Watt. Both Reggie Wright Jr. and Reggie Wright Sr. were deposed in that case and gave their sworn testimony. The gun flowed from the evidence locker to Death Row Records to the shooter. They were both suspected of supplying the weapon that nearly killed a sworn law officer.

But their influence didn’t end there. Senior was accused of wanting to know the addresses of raids the night before they occurred just like during the gang sweep in the immediate aftermath of the Tupac Shakur murder. Junior had his telephone number in the pay/owe book of drug dealer Keefe-D. The investigation yielded almost 200 kilos of cocaine missing from the Police Evidence Locker inside of the Compton Police Department. When the information was sent up to the D.A.’s Office for prosecution they elected to look the other way because the loophole that caused the missing cocaine stemmed from D.A. rejects of cases.

Instead, the D.A.’s office did pursue former Mayor Omar Bradley on corruption charges. Bradley was convicted and spent 3 years in prison. He appealed and his conviction was overturned. That didn’t stop the D.A.’s office from continuing their pursuit of Bradley. After 17 years they are still coming. Is it because an important revenue source was cut off in the investigation of the Compton Police Corruption? It begs an investigation into the D.A.’s office.

I bumped into Tom Mesereau in Century City recently and he told me first-hand about viewing tapes in a case he was handling where Bradley was entrapped but failed to take the money. On numerous occasions Bradley sat in a room where suitcases of money were pushed over to him and he always pushed the money back and said, "no thank you.” The Federal Agents in the case were repeatedly heard to say, "why is he pushing it back? He is black.” As if all black people are corrupt. Tom Mesereau found it offensive, I find it offensive and you should too.

When are we going to judge based upon content of character? Let’s start with this case – no reason to wait.