Bill Essayli and the new ‘Untouchables’ – Latest News
We are watching a remake of the “Untouchables” in Los Angeles, with Bill Essayli as Eliot Ness.
Every week, it appears, the main federal prosector scores one other main bust — fraudsters stealing tens of millions from state and native coffers; Iranian regime sympathizers allegedly making arms offers from their properties; and, now, harmful Mexican gangsters, dwelling overtly in Southern California.
As The California Post reported, the FBI carried out a beautiful pre-dawn raid Thursday, dubbed “Operation Gangsta’s Paradise,” nabbing the alleged leaders of a “gang of gangs, who had apparently lived overtly and comfortably in the suburban climes of Orange County.
LA’s high federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, described the Mexican Mafia as “the most powerful, prolific gang that operates out of state prisons.” REUTERS
It’s unbelievable what a distinction good management could make in the US Attorney’s workplace. And he has the energetic backing of FBI Director Kash Patel.
The assault on overseas gangs has been a multipronged affair.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids have swept up gangsters who had no proper to be in the United States. Many had defied deportation orders for years — till President Donald Trump let border czar Tom Homan lead the long-overdue crackdown.
Essayli and the prosecutors have used each legal device and intelligence functionality at their disposal to disrupt prison networks and catch overseas brokers who had been let into the US below earlier administrations.
What is especially encouraging is that law enforcement has been aggressive and profitable regardless of the political turmoil in Washington.
The daring arrests focused alleged murders, drug sellers and racketeers taken by brokers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation from a sequence of residences in and round the metropolis of Santa Ana. Carlin Stiehl for CA Post
There has been a sport of musical chairs happening, as Kristi Noem was changed by Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security, and Pam Bondi was booted from the Department of Justice.
Essayli, Patel, Homan, and their workers have stayed centered on the job. They know that for all the Cabinet-level chaos, the man in the Oval Office has confidence in them and has given them free rein to hold out their duties.
It could also be onerous to consider now, however as of late 2024, Essayli was a junior backbencher in the state legislature. He led the opposition on a number of essential points, however was consistently shouted down by Democrats, who denied him the proper to talk and kicked him off committees.
Trump’s victory opened a new path for Essayli — a return to law enforcement, the place he started his profession as a prosecutor.
And the people of Southern California have been the primary beneficiaries, as crime has fallen and prison gangsters have been arrested or despatched packing.
Before, the criminals had been untouchable. No longer.
