WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) deputy was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for obstructing a federal investigation into a now-jailed, self-styled cryptocurrency businessman by lying that he never witnessed the wannabe crypto mogul threaten and extort $25,000 from a party planner at his Bel Air mansion.
Scott Allen Simpkins, 34, of Brea, was sentenced by United States District Judge Percy Anderson, who fined him $10,000.
Simpkins pleaded guilty on March 17 to one count of obstruction of justice. He resigned from LASD's Special Enforcement Bureau...