The Indictment and Corrupt History of Gardena’s Shady Mayor Paul Tanaka

Paul Tanaka, Mayor of Gardena and former undersheriff of LA County, has been indicted for conspiracy and obstruction of justice, years after an FBI investigation into the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department began uncovering tiers of corruption, brutality, and a apparently unchecked power. How Tanaka played a shady role in the administration of Lee Baca, and how secret associations with gangs and goons played itself out for years leading up to the charges are explored with author and journalist, Frank Girardot. We also learn about the corruption that has plagued Southern California’s City of Industry, where politics and city contracts are cashed in on by the elected officials, in this uncensored Crime Time, hosted by Allison Hope Weiner.

Guest Bio

Frank C. Girardot Jr. has traversed the gritty streets of Los Angeles, California, rubbed elbows with police officers who were of the same ilk as the criminals they apprehended and moved among the cadavers at the Los Angeles County Office of Coroner as if he were the spirit of some poor soul who wound up there.
He knows the scene; the crime scene, that is.

Few modern newspaper reporters or editors have accumulated his vast experience – from covering the O.J. Simpson murder trial to uncovering curious links between one Christopher Chichester and the disappearance of a young San Marino couple in 1985.