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Thursday, September 03, 2015

FBI raids Palm Springs City Hall, employees sent home

(Reuters) - FBI agents and a local public corruption task force raided Palm Springs City Hall armed with search warrants on Tuesday, sending home employees and closing the offices for the day, an FBI spokeswoman said.

Laura Eimiller of the FBI's Los Angeles office said she could not disclose the nature of the searches, which were conducted with members of the so-called Inland Empire Public Corruption Task Force, because the case was under seal.

Eimiller said no suspects had been taken into custody in the desert resort community about 110 miles (177 km) east of Los Angeles and that no arrests were planned on Tuesday.

"We arrived at about 9 a.m. and expect to be out here for several hours, if not all day," she said.

Law enforcement agents could be seen coming and going from the shuttered Palm Springs City Hall offices and removing at least one box of material.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hummm. May the community told the Obama's they weren't welcome to have their retirement home there.

Anonymous said...

Guess they forgot to give O a free pass to the local golf course.