LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is scheduled to testify, under oath, Friday about gang-like groups of deputies that operate in the Sheriff's Department, after the U.S. 2nd District Court of Appeal denied his latest challenge to a more than year-old watchdog subpoena.
"He's been ordered to do so," Villanueva's attorney Linda Savitt said Wednesday. "He will do so."
The development is a major blow to Villanueva, who has been challenging the inspector general's subpoena authority, both in court and by not showing up when he's summoned. He has called the subpoenas politically motivated and harassing.
