联邦调查局的秘密文件指控前洛杉矶市检察官向联邦调查局撒谎，很可能妨碍了司法公正。然而，他对此予以否认。
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Secret FBI files allege former L.A. city attorney lied to feds, likely obstructed justice. He denies it
联邦调查局的秘密文件指控前洛杉矶市检察官向联邦调查局撒谎，很可能妨碍了司法公正。然而，他对此予以否认。
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer prepares for a news conference in front of LAPD headquarters in August 2021.
当天洛杉矶市律师迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）正在为2021年8月在洛杉矶警察总部举行的新闻发布会做准备.
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer lied to government investigators and probably obstructed justice during a massive federal inquiry into a fraudulent lawsuit orchestrated by his office, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent that was made public on Tuesday.
根据本周二公开的联邦调查局（FBI）特工的一份书面证词，当时任洛杉矶市检察官的迈克-费尔（Mike Feuer）在联邦对其办公室策划的一起欺诈性诉讼案进行大规模调查期间，向政府调查人员撒谎，并可能妨碍了司法公正。
Feuer, who has not been charged with any crimes, maintained his innocence this week.
费尔没有受到任何犯罪指控，本周他坚称自己是无辜的。
He has long denied knowing about the fraud behind the lawsuit involving exorbitant Department of Water and Power bills and has similarly denied knowledge of a hush money payment to a Beverly Hills legal assistant who threatened to expose the scheme.
他一直否认知道涉及过高的水电费诉讼案背后的欺诈行为，同样也否认知道向威胁要揭露该计划的比佛利山法律助理支付封口费一事。
Not only did Feuer know about the legal assistant’s threats, but he “impliedly directed” one of his top deputies to handle her demands, FBI Special Agent Andrew Civetti wrote in the Jan. 31, 2020, affidavit in support of a warrant to search Feuer’s Apple iCloud account.
FBI特工安德鲁·西韦蒂（Andrew Civetti）在2020年1月31日支持对迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）的苹果iCloud账户进行搜查的宣誓书中写道，费尔不仅知道法律助理的威胁，而且“暗示”他的一名高级副手处理她的要求。
As federal agents investigated the city attorney’s office and its role in the fraudulent lawsuit, Feuer misled the FBI about the timeline of events and the extent of his office’s role in the scheme, Civetti said in the affidavit.
Civetti在宣誓书中说，在联邦探员调查市检察官办公室及其在欺诈性诉讼中所扮演的角色时，费尔在事件发生的时间线和他的办公室在该计划中的作用程度方面误导了联邦调查局
“Multiple sources of evidence provide probable cause to believe that Feuer obstructed justice [and] made materially misleading statements to the FBI” about his knowledge of key events in the scandal, Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道：“多个证据来源提供了可能的理由，让我们相信 Feuer 妨碍了司法公正，并就他对丑闻中关键事件的了解向联邦调查局做出了重大误导性陈述”。
The affidavit and several others by Civetti were part of a sprawling federal criminal investigation that led to charges against three former top city officials and a New York attorney.
Civetti 的这份宣誓书和其他几份宣誓书都是联邦刑事调查的一部分，该调查导致了对三名前市政高官和一名纽约律师的指控。
Making false statements to the FBI and obstructing justice are federal crimes that can carry up to several years in prison, but prosecutors have not filed charges against Feuer.
向联邦调查局提供虚假陈述和妨碍司法公正属于联邦犯罪，最高可判处数年监禁，但检察官并未对费尔提出指控。
During a July 2019 interview, which occurred while federal agents were raiding City Hall and DWP headquarters, Feuer’s answers about the origins of the fraudulent lawsuit and his knowledge of it were “material and misleading,” Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在书面证词中写道，在 2019 年 7 月的一次面谈中（当时联邦特工正在突袭市政厅和水电总部），Feuer 关于欺诈性诉讼的起源和他对此事的了解的回答是 “重大误导性的”。
Feuer continued to speak by phone or in person to prosecutors, either directly or through his chief of staff, Leela Kapur, according to Civetti’s affidavit.
根据 Civetti 的宣誓书，Feuer 继续直接或通过他的幕僚长 Leela Kapur 与检察官通过电话或面谈。
Some of the Civetti affidavits rely on information provided to the FBI by one of Feuer’s former top deputies, Thom Peters, who oversaw civil litigation in the city attorney’s office. Civetti cited calendar entries, text messages and an audio recording that he said appeared to support Peters’ account.
Civetti的部分书面证词依赖于Feuer的一名前高级副手Thom Peters向FBI提供的信息，Thom Peters在市检察官办公室负责民事诉讼。Civetti 列举了日历记录、短信和录音，他说这些似乎都支持彼得斯的说法
On Tuesday, a trove of documents in the criminal case, including the Civetti affidavits, was released after The Times and Consumer Watchdog moved to unseal them.
周二，在《泰晤士报》和消费者监督组织提出解封申请后，包括 Civetti 宣誓书在内的大量刑事案件文件得以公布。
Feuer’s “narrative of apparent obfuscation, false and misleading statements, and omissions” were part of an effort to protect his political reputation, Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在宣誓书中写道，Feuer 明显’’混淆视听、虚假和误导性陈述以及遗漏 ”是为了保护自己的政治声誉。
“On multiple occasions,” Feuer told investigators that he wanted to run for mayor in 2022 and “believed he would be among the favorites,” Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道： Feuer 在多个场合告诉调查人员，他要在 2022 年竞选市长，并且 “相信自己会是热门人选之一”。
Feuer did run for mayor but dropped out before the primary. Last year, he launched an unsuccessful bid for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank).
Feuer曾竞选过市长，但在初选前退出。去年，他开始竞选众议员亚当-希夫（Adam B. Schiff）（民主党-伯班克）空出的国会席位，但未获得成功。
Feuer this week said in a statement that the affidavits relied on “lies” from Peters, who later pleaded guilty in his role in the scheme.
“Any claim that I knew about collusion and tried to conceal it is absurd,” Feuer said in a statement.
“I cooperated fully with the U.S. Attorney’s staff and am glad they ultimately obtained all the actual facts,” he said. “After they did, and assessed each witness’s credibility, they prosecuted the wrongdoers and stated there was no ongoing investigation into me.”
Feuer本周在一份声明中说，宣誓证词依赖于Peters的 “谎言”，彼得斯后来承认了自己在该计划中的角色。
“任何关于我知道串通并试图隐瞒的说法都是荒谬的.”
“我与联邦检察官的工作人员通力合作，很高兴他们最终了解了所有事实.”他说：“在他们了解所有事实并评估了每位证人的可信度之后，他们起诉了不法分子，并表示不会继续对我进行调查.”
In 2022, Feuer requested and received a letter from the U.S. attorney’s office stating that he was not a target of their investigation. Late last year, prosecutors told The Times that the investigation was closed.
2022 年，Feuer 收到了来自美国检察官办公室的一封信，信中声明他不是他们的调查目标。去年年底，检察官告诉《泰晤士报》，调查已经结束。
Reached this week, Peters told The Times: “I am pleased, but not at all surprised, to see that my statements to the FBI about Feuer were corroborated by multiple, independent sources.”
本周，Peters告诉《泰晤士报》： “我很高兴，但一点也不惊讶，因为我向联邦调查局提供的关于Feuer的证词,得到了多个独立消息来源的证实”。
A longtime politician, Feuer served on the state Assembly and City Council before voters elected him to be the city’s top lawyer in 2013. He grew up in San Bernardino as the son of an educator and survivor of a Nazi prisoner of war camp. Fastidious and ambitious, he earned the nickname “Saint Michael” from City Council members for his focus on ethics. His term as city attorney ended in December 2022.
Feuer一直从政，曾在州众议院和市议会任职，2013 年被选民推举为该市的最高律师。他在圣贝纳迪诺长大，是一名教育家的儿子，也是纳粹战俘营的幸存者。他勤奋好学、雄心勃勃，因注重道德而被市议员们昵称为 “圣迈克尔”（Saint Michael）。他的市检察官任期于 2022 年 12 月结束。
The Times and Consumer Watchdog had sought the roughly 1,400 pages of documents, which include more than 30 search warrants filed during the government’s investigation, to better understand what investigators learned about Feuer.
泰晤士报和 “消费者监督组织 ” 曾获得了约 1400 页的文件，其中包括在政府调查期间提交的 30 多份搜查令。以更好地让调查人员了解到的关于 Feuer 的情况。
In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. said the documents could be unsealed, with personal data and references to grand jury proceedings redacted.
美国地区法官Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. 在上个月的一项裁决中表示，这些文件可以解封，但其中的个人数据和大陪审团程序的内容将被删节。
The documents show prosecutors’ desire to pore over Feuer’s phone records and emails, and raise questions about why they never charged Feuer with obstruction of justice or lying to federal authorities.
文件显示，检察官希望获得Feuer的电话记录和电子邮件，并质疑他们为何从未指控Feuer妨碍司法公正或向联邦当局撒谎。
Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, declined to comment on the lack of charges against Feuer. McEvoy said the office has a “strong history” of convicting public officials.
洛杉矶联邦检察官办公室发言人 Ciaran McEvoy 拒绝对费尔未被起诉一事发表评论。麦克沃伊说，该办公室在给公职人员定罪方面有着 “辉煌的历史”。
“As we have stated before, where the evidence did not establish every element of a federal crime beyond a reasonable doubt, we have not pursued charges,” McEvoy said.
McEvoy 说：”正如我们之前所说的，如果证据没有在排除合理怀疑的情况下确定联邦犯罪的每一个要素，我们就不会继续起诉
Three people went to prison following the government’s criminal probe, including David F. Alexander, a former DWP cybersecurity chief who was charged with lying to the FBI about his role in a bribery scheme and sentenced to four years. Peters was sentenced to nine months of home confinement.
在政府的刑事调查之后，有三人被判入狱. 其中包括前水利部网络安全主管大卫-亚历山大（David F. Alexander），他被控向联邦调查局谎报自己贿赂 ，并被判处四年监禁。彼得斯Peters被判处 9 个月的家庭监禁。
The corruption scheme originated after the launch of a new billing system by the DWP in 2013, which resulted in thousands of customers receiving erroneous utility bills.
腐败计划源于 DWP 于 2013 年推出的新账单系统, 这导致成千上万的客户收到错误的水电费账单。
联邦调查局的秘密文件指控前洛杉矶市检察官向联邦调查局撒谎，很可能妨碍了司法公正。然而，他对此予以否认。
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer prepares for a news conference in front of LAPD headquarters in August 2021.
当天洛杉矶市律师迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）正在为2021年8月在洛杉矶警察总部举行的新闻发布会做准备.
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer lied to government investigators and probably obstructed justice during a massive federal inquiry into a fraudulent lawsuit orchestrated by his office, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent that was made public on Tuesday.
根据本周二公开的联邦调查局（FBI）特工的一份书面证词，当时任洛杉矶市检察官的迈克-费尔（Mike Feuer）在联邦对其办公室策划的一起欺诈性诉讼案进行大规模调查期间，向政府调查人员撒谎，并可能妨碍了司法公正。
Feuer, who has not been charged with any crimes, maintained his innocence this week.
费尔没有受到任何犯罪指控，本周他坚称自己是无辜的。
He has long denied knowing about the fraud behind the lawsuit involving exorbitant Department of Water and Power bills and has similarly denied knowledge of a hush money payment to a Beverly Hills legal assistant who threatened to expose the scheme.
他一直否认知道涉及过高的水电费诉讼案背后的欺诈行为，同样也否认知道向威胁要揭露该计划的比佛利山法律助理支付封口费一事。
Not only did Feuer know about the legal assistant’s threats, but he “impliedly directed” one of his top deputies to handle her demands, FBI Special Agent Andrew Civetti wrote in the Jan. 31, 2020, affidavit in support of a warrant to search Feuer’s Apple iCloud account.
FBI特工安德鲁·西韦蒂（Andrew Civetti）在2020年1月31日支持对迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）的苹果iCloud账户进行搜查的宣誓书中写道，费尔不仅知道法律助理的威胁，而且“暗示”他的一名高级副手处理她的要求。
As federal agents investigated the city attorney’s office and its role in the fraudulent lawsuit, Feuer misled the FBI about the timeline of events and the extent of his office’s role in the scheme, Civetti said in the affidavit.
Civetti在宣誓书中说，在联邦探员调查市检察官办公室及其在欺诈性诉讼中所扮演的角色时，费尔在事件发生的时间线和他的办公室在该计划中的作用程度方面误导了联邦调查局
“Multiple sources of evidence provide probable cause to believe that Feuer obstructed justice [and] made materially misleading statements to the FBI” about his knowledge of key events in the scandal, Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道：“多个证据来源提供了可能的理由，让我们相信 Feuer 妨碍了司法公正，并就他对丑闻中关键事件的了解向联邦调查局做出了重大误导性陈述”。
The affidavit and several others by Civetti were part of a sprawling federal criminal investigation that led to charges against three former top city officials and a New York attorney.
Civetti 的这份宣誓书和其他几份宣誓书都是联邦刑事调查的一部分，该调查导致了对三名前市政高官和一名纽约律师的指控。
Making false statements to the FBI and obstructing justice are federal crimes that can carry up to several years in prison, but prosecutors have not filed charges against Feuer.
向联邦调查局提供虚假陈述和妨碍司法公正属于联邦犯罪，最高可判处数年监禁，但检察官并未对费尔提出指控。
During a July 2019 interview, which occurred while federal agents were raiding City Hall and DWP headquarters, Feuer’s answers about the origins of the fraudulent lawsuit and his knowledge of it were “material and misleading,” Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在书面证词中写道，在 2019 年 7 月的一次面谈中（当时联邦特工正在突袭市政厅和水电总部），Feuer 关于欺诈性诉讼的起源和他对此事的了解的回答是 “重大误导性的”。
Feuer continued to speak by phone or in person to prosecutors, either directly or through his chief of staff, Leela Kapur, according to Civetti’s affidavit.
根据 Civetti 的宣誓书，Feuer 继续直接或通过他的幕僚长 Leela Kapur 与检察官通过电话或面谈。
Some of the Civetti affidavits rely on information provided to the FBI by one of Feuer’s former top deputies, Thom Peters, who oversaw civil litigation in the city attorney’s office. Civetti cited calendar entries, text messages and an audio recording that he said appeared to support Peters’ account.
Civetti的部分书面证词依赖于Feuer的一名前高级副手Thom Peters向FBI提供的信息，Thom Peters在市检察官办公室负责民事诉讼。Civetti 列举了日历记录、短信和录音，他说这些似乎都支持彼得斯的说法
On Tuesday, a trove of documents in the criminal case, including the Civetti affidavits, was released after The Times and Consumer Watchdog moved to unseal them.
周二，在《泰晤士报》和消费者监督组织提出解封申请后，包括 Civetti 宣誓书在内的大量刑事案件文件得以公布。
Feuer’s “narrative of apparent obfuscation, false and misleading statements, and omissions” were part of an effort to protect his political reputation, Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在宣誓书中写道，Feuer 明显’’混淆视听、虚假和误导性陈述以及遗漏 ”是为了保护自己的政治声誉。
“On multiple occasions,” Feuer told investigators that he wanted to run for mayor in 2022 and “believed he would be among the favorites,” Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道： Feuer 在多个场合告诉调查人员，他要在 2022 年竞选市长，并且 “相信自己会是热门人选之一”。
Feuer did run for mayor but dropped out before the primary. Last year, he launched an unsuccessful bid for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank).
Feuer曾竞选过市长，但在初选前退出。去年，他开始竞选众议员亚当-希夫（Adam B. Schiff）（民主党-伯班克）空出的国会席位，但未获得成功。
Feuer this week said in a statement that the affidavits relied on “lies” from Peters, who later pleaded guilty in his role in the scheme.
“Any claim that I knew about collusion and tried to conceal it is absurd,” Feuer said in a statement.
“I cooperated fully with the U.S. Attorney’s staff and am glad they ultimately obtained all the actual facts,” he said. “After they did, and assessed each witness’s credibility, they prosecuted the wrongdoers and stated there was no ongoing investigation into me.”
Feuer本周在一份声明中说，宣誓证词依赖于Peters的 “谎言”，彼得斯后来承认了自己在该计划中的角色。
“任何关于我知道串通并试图隐瞒的说法都是荒谬的.”
“我与联邦检察官的工作人员通力合作，很高兴他们最终了解了所有事实.”他说：“在他们了解所有事实并评估了每位证人的可信度之后，他们起诉了不法分子，并表示不会继续对我进行调查.”
In 2022, Feuer requested and received a letter from the U.S. attorney’s office stating that he was not a target of their investigation. Late last year, prosecutors told The Times that the investigation was closed.
2022 年，Feuer 收到了来自美国检察官办公室的一封信，信中声明他不是他们的调查目标。去年年底，检察官告诉《泰晤士报》，调查已经结束。
Reached this week, Peters told The Times: “I am pleased, but not at all surprised, to see that my statements to the FBI about Feuer were corroborated by multiple, independent sources.”
本周，Peters告诉《泰晤士报》： “我很高兴，但一点也不惊讶，因为我向联邦调查局提供的关于Feuer的证词,得到了多个独立消息来源的证实”。
A longtime politician, Feuer served on the state Assembly and City Council before voters elected him to be the city’s top lawyer in 2013. He grew up in San Bernardino as the son of an educator and survivor of a Nazi prisoner of war camp. Fastidious and ambitious, he earned the nickname “Saint Michael” from City Council members for his focus on ethics. His term as city attorney ended in December 2022.
Feuer一直从政，曾在州众议院和市议会任职，2013 年被选民推举为该市的最高律师。他在圣贝纳迪诺长大，是一名教育家的儿子，也是纳粹战俘营的幸存者。他勤奋好学、雄心勃勃，因注重道德而被市议员们昵称为 “圣迈克尔”（Saint Michael）。他的市检察官任期于 2022 年 12 月结束。
The Times and Consumer Watchdog had sought the roughly 1,400 pages of documents, which include more than 30 search warrants filed during the government’s investigation, to better understand what investigators learned about Feuer.
泰晤士报和 “消费者监督组织 ” 曾获得了约 1400 页的文件，其中包括在政府调查期间提交的 30 多份搜查令。以更好地让调查人员了解到的关于 Feuer 的情况。
In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. said the documents could be unsealed, with personal data and references to grand jury proceedings redacted.
美国地区法官Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. 在上个月的一项裁决中表示，这些文件可以解封，但其中的个人数据和大陪审团程序的内容将被删节。
The documents show prosecutors’ desire to pore over Feuer’s phone records and emails, and raise questions about why they never charged Feuer with obstruction of justice or lying to federal authorities.
文件显示，检察官希望获得Feuer的电话记录和电子邮件，并质疑他们为何从未指控Feuer妨碍司法公正或向联邦当局撒谎。
Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, declined to comment on the lack of charges against Feuer. McEvoy said the office has a “strong history” of convicting public officials.
洛杉矶联邦检察官办公室发言人 Ciaran McEvoy 拒绝对费尔未被起诉一事发表评论。麦克沃伊说，该办公室在给公职人员定罪方面有着 “辉煌的历史”。
“As we have stated before, where the evidence did not establish every element of a federal crime beyond a reasonable doubt, we have not pursued charges,” McEvoy said.
McEvoy 说：”正如我们之前所说的，如果证据没有在排除合理怀疑的情况下确定联邦犯罪的每一个要素，我们就不会继续起诉
Three people went to prison following the government’s criminal probe, including David F. Alexander, a former DWP cybersecurity chief who was charged with lying to the FBI about his role in a bribery scheme and sentenced to four years. Peters was sentenced to nine months of home confinement.
在政府的刑事调查之后，有三人被判入狱. 其中包括前水利部网络安全主管大卫-亚历山大（David F. Alexander），他被控向联邦调查局谎报自己贿赂 ，并被判处四年监禁。彼得斯Peters被判处 9 个月的家庭监禁。
The corruption scheme originated after the launch of a new billing system by the DWP in 2013, which resulted in thousands of customers receiving erroneous utility bills.
腐败计划源于 DWP 于 2013 年推出的新账单系统, 这导致成千上万的客户收到错误的水电费账单。
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Secret FBI files allege former L.A. city attorney lied to feds, likely obstructed justice. He denies it
联邦调查局的秘密文件指控前洛杉矶市检察官向联邦调查局撒谎，很可能妨碍了司法公正。然而，他对此予以否认。
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer prepares for a news conference in front of LAPD headquarters in August 2021.
当天洛杉矶市律师迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）正在为2021年8月在洛杉矶警察总部举行的新闻发布会做准备.
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer lied to government investigators and probably obstructed justice during a massive federal inquiry into a fraudulent lawsuit orchestrated by his office, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent that was made public on Tuesday.
根据本周二公开的联邦调查局（FBI）特工的一份书面证词，当时任洛杉矶市检察官的迈克-费尔（Mike Feuer）在联邦对其办公室策划的一起欺诈性诉讼案进行大规模调查期间，向政府调查人员撒谎，并可能妨碍了司法公正。
Feuer, who has not been charged with any crimes, maintained his innocence this week.
费尔没有受到任何犯罪指控，本周他坚称自己是无辜的。
He has long denied knowing about the fraud behind the lawsuit involving exorbitant Department of Water and Power bills and has similarly denied knowledge of a hush money payment to a Beverly Hills legal assistant who threatened to expose the scheme.
他一直否认知道涉及过高的水电费诉讼案背后的欺诈行为，同样也否认知道向威胁要揭露该计划的比佛利山法律助理支付封口费一事。
Not only did Feuer know about the legal assistant’s threats, but he “impliedly directed” one of his top deputies to handle her demands, FBI Special Agent Andrew Civetti wrote in the Jan. 31, 2020, affidavit in support of a warrant to search Feuer’s Apple iCloud account.
FBI特工安德鲁·西韦蒂（Andrew Civetti）在2020年1月31日支持对迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）的苹果iCloud账户进行搜查的宣誓书中写道，费尔不仅知道法律助理的威胁，而且“暗示”他的一名高级副手处理她的要求。
As federal agents investigated the city attorney’s office and its role in the fraudulent lawsuit, Feuer misled the FBI about the timeline of events and the extent of his office’s role in the scheme, Civetti said in the affidavit.
Civetti在宣誓书中说，在联邦探员调查市检察官办公室及其在欺诈性诉讼中所扮演的角色时，费尔在事件发生的时间线和他的办公室在该计划中的作用程度方面误导了联邦调查局
“Multiple sources of evidence provide probable cause to believe that Feuer obstructed justice [and] made materially misleading statements to the FBI” about his knowledge of key events in the scandal, Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道：“多个证据来源提供了可能的理由，让我们相信 Feuer 妨碍了司法公正，并就他对丑闻中关键事件的了解向联邦调查局做出了重大误导性陈述”。
The affidavit and several others by Civetti were part of a sprawling federal criminal investigation that led to charges against three former top city officials and a New York attorney.
Civetti 的这份宣誓书和其他几份宣誓书都是联邦刑事调查的一部分，该调查导致了对三名前市政高官和一名纽约律师的指控。
Making false statements to the FBI and obstructing justice are federal crimes that can carry up to several years in prison, but prosecutors have not filed charges against Feuer.
向联邦调查局提供虚假陈述和妨碍司法公正属于联邦犯罪，最高可判处数年监禁，但检察官并未对费尔提出指控。
During a July 2019 interview, which occurred while federal agents were raiding City Hall and DWP headquarters, Feuer’s answers about the origins of the fraudulent lawsuit and his knowledge of it were “material and misleading,” Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在书面证词中写道，在 2019 年 7 月的一次面谈中（当时联邦特工正在突袭市政厅和水电总部），Feuer 关于欺诈性诉讼的起源和他对此事的了解的回答是 “重大误导性的”。
Feuer continued to speak by phone or in person to prosecutors, either directly or through his chief of staff, Leela Kapur, according to Civetti’s affidavit.
根据 Civetti 的宣誓书，Feuer 继续直接或通过他的幕僚长 Leela Kapur 与检察官通过电话或面谈。
Some of the Civetti affidavits rely on information provided to the FBI by one of Feuer’s former top deputies, Thom Peters, who oversaw civil litigation in the city attorney’s office. Civetti cited calendar entries, text messages and an audio recording that he said appeared to support Peters’ account.
Civetti的部分书面证词依赖于Feuer的一名前高级副手Thom Peters向FBI提供的信息，Thom Peters在市检察官办公室负责民事诉讼。Civetti 列举了日历记录、短信和录音，他说这些似乎都支持彼得斯的说法
On Tuesday, a trove of documents in the criminal case, including the Civetti affidavits, was released after The Times and Consumer Watchdog moved to unseal them.
周二，在《泰晤士报》和消费者监督组织提出解封申请后，包括 Civetti 宣誓书在内的大量刑事案件文件得以公布。
Feuer’s “narrative of apparent obfuscation, false and misleading statements, and omissions” were part of an effort to protect his political reputation, Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在宣誓书中写道，Feuer 明显’’混淆视听、虚假和误导性陈述以及遗漏 ”是为了保护自己的政治声誉。
“On multiple occasions,” Feuer told investigators that he wanted to run for mayor in 2022 and “believed he would be among the favorites,” Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道： Feuer 在多个场合告诉调查人员，他要在 2022 年竞选市长，并且 “相信自己会是热门人选之一”。
Feuer did run for mayor but dropped out before the primary. Last year, he launched an unsuccessful bid for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank).
Feuer曾竞选过市长，但在初选前退出。去年，他开始竞选众议员亚当-希夫（Adam B. Schiff）（民主党-伯班克）空出的国会席位，但未获得成功。
Feuer this week said in a statement that the affidavits relied on “lies” from Peters, who later pleaded guilty in his role in the scheme.
“Any claim that I knew about collusion and tried to conceal it is absurd,” Feuer said in a statement.
“I cooperated fully with the U.S. Attorney’s staff and am glad they ultimately obtained all the actual facts,” he said. “After they did, and assessed each witness’s credibility, they prosecuted the wrongdoers and stated there was no ongoing investigation into me.”
Feuer本周在一份声明中说，宣誓证词依赖于Peters的 “谎言”，彼得斯后来承认了自己在该计划中的角色。
“任何关于我知道串通并试图隐瞒的说法都是荒谬的.”
“我与联邦检察官的工作人员通力合作，很高兴他们最终了解了所有事实.”他说：“在他们了解所有事实并评估了每位证人的可信度之后，他们起诉了不法分子，并表示不会继续对我进行调查.”
In 2022, Feuer requested and received a letter from the U.S. attorney’s office stating that he was not a target of their investigation. Late last year, prosecutors told The Times that the investigation was closed.
2022 年，Feuer 收到了来自美国检察官办公室的一封信，信中声明他不是他们的调查目标。去年年底，检察官告诉《泰晤士报》，调查已经结束。
Reached this week, Peters told The Times: “I am pleased, but not at all surprised, to see that my statements to the FBI about Feuer were corroborated by multiple, independent sources.”
本周，Peters告诉《泰晤士报》： “我很高兴，但一点也不惊讶，因为我向联邦调查局提供的关于Feuer的证词,得到了多个独立消息来源的证实”。
A longtime politician, Feuer served on the state Assembly and City Council before voters elected him to be the city’s top lawyer in 2013. He grew up in San Bernardino as the son of an educator and survivor of a Nazi prisoner of war camp. Fastidious and ambitious, he earned the nickname “Saint Michael” from City Council members for his focus on ethics. His term as city attorney ended in December 2022.
Feuer一直从政，曾在州众议院和市议会任职，2013 年被选民推举为该市的最高律师。他在圣贝纳迪诺长大，是一名教育家的儿子，也是纳粹战俘营的幸存者。他勤奋好学、雄心勃勃，因注重道德而被市议员们昵称为 “圣迈克尔”（Saint Michael）。他的市检察官任期于 2022 年 12 月结束。
The Times and Consumer Watchdog had sought the roughly 1,400 pages of documents, which include more than 30 search warrants filed during the government’s investigation, to better understand what investigators learned about Feuer.
泰晤士报和 “消费者监督组织 ” 曾获得了约 1400 页的文件，其中包括在政府调查期间提交的 30 多份搜查令。以更好地让调查人员了解到的关于 Feuer 的情况。
In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. said the documents could be unsealed, with personal data and references to grand jury proceedings redacted.
美国地区法官Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. 在上个月的一项裁决中表示，这些文件可以解封，但其中的个人数据和大陪审团程序的内容将被删节。
The documents show prosecutors’ desire to pore over Feuer’s phone records and emails, and raise questions about why they never charged Feuer with obstruction of justice or lying to federal authorities.
文件显示，检察官希望获得Feuer的电话记录和电子邮件，并质疑他们为何从未指控Feuer妨碍司法公正或向联邦当局撒谎。
Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, declined to comment on the lack of charges against Feuer. McEvoy said the office has a “strong history” of convicting public officials.
洛杉矶联邦检察官办公室发言人 Ciaran McEvoy 拒绝对费尔未被起诉一事发表评论。麦克沃伊说，该办公室在给公职人员定罪方面有着 “辉煌的历史”。
“As we have stated before, where the evidence did not establish every element of a federal crime beyond a reasonable doubt, we have not pursued charges,” McEvoy said.
McEvoy 说：”正如我们之前所说的，如果证据没有在排除合理怀疑的情况下确定联邦犯罪的每一个要素，我们就不会继续起诉
Three people went to prison following the government’s criminal probe, including David F. Alexander, a former DWP cybersecurity chief who was charged with lying to the FBI about his role in a bribery scheme and sentenced to four years. Peters was sentenced to nine months of home confinement.
在政府的刑事调查之后，有三人被判入狱. 其中包括前水利部网络安全主管大卫-亚历山大（David F. Alexander），他被控向联邦调查局谎报自己贿赂 ，并被判处四年监禁。彼得斯Peters被判处 9 个月的家庭监禁。
The corruption scheme originated after the launch of a new billing system by the DWP in 2013, which resulted in thousands of customers receiving erroneous utility bills.
腐败计划源于 DWP 于 2013 年推出的新账单系统, 这导致成千上万的客户收到错误的水电费账单。
联邦调查局的秘密文件指控前洛杉矶市检察官向联邦调查局撒谎，很可能妨碍了司法公正。然而，他对此予以否认。
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer prepares for a news conference in front of LAPD headquarters in August 2021.
当天洛杉矶市律师迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）正在为2021年8月在洛杉矶警察总部举行的新闻发布会做准备.
Then-Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer lied to government investigators and probably obstructed justice during a massive federal inquiry into a fraudulent lawsuit orchestrated by his office, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent that was made public on Tuesday.
根据本周二公开的联邦调查局（FBI）特工的一份书面证词，当时任洛杉矶市检察官的迈克-费尔（Mike Feuer）在联邦对其办公室策划的一起欺诈性诉讼案进行大规模调查期间，向政府调查人员撒谎，并可能妨碍了司法公正。
Feuer, who has not been charged with any crimes, maintained his innocence this week.
费尔没有受到任何犯罪指控，本周他坚称自己是无辜的。
He has long denied knowing about the fraud behind the lawsuit involving exorbitant Department of Water and Power bills and has similarly denied knowledge of a hush money payment to a Beverly Hills legal assistant who threatened to expose the scheme.
他一直否认知道涉及过高的水电费诉讼案背后的欺诈行为，同样也否认知道向威胁要揭露该计划的比佛利山法律助理支付封口费一事。
Not only did Feuer know about the legal assistant’s threats, but he “impliedly directed” one of his top deputies to handle her demands, FBI Special Agent Andrew Civetti wrote in the Jan. 31, 2020, affidavit in support of a warrant to search Feuer’s Apple iCloud account.
FBI特工安德鲁·西韦蒂（Andrew Civetti）在2020年1月31日支持对迈克·费尔（Mike Feuer）的苹果iCloud账户进行搜查的宣誓书中写道，费尔不仅知道法律助理的威胁，而且“暗示”他的一名高级副手处理她的要求。
As federal agents investigated the city attorney’s office and its role in the fraudulent lawsuit, Feuer misled the FBI about the timeline of events and the extent of his office’s role in the scheme, Civetti said in the affidavit.
Civetti在宣誓书中说，在联邦探员调查市检察官办公室及其在欺诈性诉讼中所扮演的角色时，费尔在事件发生的时间线和他的办公室在该计划中的作用程度方面误导了联邦调查局
“Multiple sources of evidence provide probable cause to believe that Feuer obstructed justice [and] made materially misleading statements to the FBI” about his knowledge of key events in the scandal, Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道：“多个证据来源提供了可能的理由，让我们相信 Feuer 妨碍了司法公正，并就他对丑闻中关键事件的了解向联邦调查局做出了重大误导性陈述”。
The affidavit and several others by Civetti were part of a sprawling federal criminal investigation that led to charges against three former top city officials and a New York attorney.
Civetti 的这份宣誓书和其他几份宣誓书都是联邦刑事调查的一部分，该调查导致了对三名前市政高官和一名纽约律师的指控。
Making false statements to the FBI and obstructing justice are federal crimes that can carry up to several years in prison, but prosecutors have not filed charges against Feuer.
向联邦调查局提供虚假陈述和妨碍司法公正属于联邦犯罪，最高可判处数年监禁，但检察官并未对费尔提出指控。
During a July 2019 interview, which occurred while federal agents were raiding City Hall and DWP headquarters, Feuer’s answers about the origins of the fraudulent lawsuit and his knowledge of it were “material and misleading,” Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在书面证词中写道，在 2019 年 7 月的一次面谈中（当时联邦特工正在突袭市政厅和水电总部），Feuer 关于欺诈性诉讼的起源和他对此事的了解的回答是 “重大误导性的”。
Feuer continued to speak by phone or in person to prosecutors, either directly or through his chief of staff, Leela Kapur, according to Civetti’s affidavit.
根据 Civetti 的宣誓书，Feuer 继续直接或通过他的幕僚长 Leela Kapur 与检察官通过电话或面谈。
Some of the Civetti affidavits rely on information provided to the FBI by one of Feuer’s former top deputies, Thom Peters, who oversaw civil litigation in the city attorney’s office. Civetti cited calendar entries, text messages and an audio recording that he said appeared to support Peters’ account.
Civetti的部分书面证词依赖于Feuer的一名前高级副手Thom Peters向FBI提供的信息，Thom Peters在市检察官办公室负责民事诉讼。Civetti 列举了日历记录、短信和录音，他说这些似乎都支持彼得斯的说法
On Tuesday, a trove of documents in the criminal case, including the Civetti affidavits, was released after The Times and Consumer Watchdog moved to unseal them.
周二，在《泰晤士报》和消费者监督组织提出解封申请后，包括 Civetti 宣誓书在内的大量刑事案件文件得以公布。
Feuer’s “narrative of apparent obfuscation, false and misleading statements, and omissions” were part of an effort to protect his political reputation, Civetti wrote in the affidavit.
Civetti 在宣誓书中写道，Feuer 明显’’混淆视听、虚假和误导性陈述以及遗漏 ”是为了保护自己的政治声誉。
“On multiple occasions,” Feuer told investigators that he wanted to run for mayor in 2022 and “believed he would be among the favorites,” Civetti wrote.
Civetti 写道： Feuer 在多个场合告诉调查人员，他要在 2022 年竞选市长，并且 “相信自己会是热门人选之一”。
Feuer did run for mayor but dropped out before the primary. Last year, he launched an unsuccessful bid for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank).
Feuer曾竞选过市长，但在初选前退出。去年，他开始竞选众议员亚当-希夫（Adam B. Schiff）（民主党-伯班克）空出的国会席位，但未获得成功。
Feuer this week said in a statement that the affidavits relied on “lies” from Peters, who later pleaded guilty in his role in the scheme.
“Any claim that I knew about collusion and tried to conceal it is absurd,” Feuer said in a statement.
“I cooperated fully with the U.S. Attorney’s staff and am glad they ultimately obtained all the actual facts,” he said. “After they did, and assessed each witness’s credibility, they prosecuted the wrongdoers and stated there was no ongoing investigation into me.”
Feuer本周在一份声明中说，宣誓证词依赖于Peters的 “谎言”，彼得斯后来承认了自己在该计划中的角色。
“任何关于我知道串通并试图隐瞒的说法都是荒谬的.”
“我与联邦检察官的工作人员通力合作，很高兴他们最终了解了所有事实.”他说：“在他们了解所有事实并评估了每位证人的可信度之后，他们起诉了不法分子，并表示不会继续对我进行调查.”
In 2022, Feuer requested and received a letter from the U.S. attorney’s office stating that he was not a target of their investigation. Late last year, prosecutors told The Times that the investigation was closed.
2022 年，Feuer 收到了来自美国检察官办公室的一封信，信中声明他不是他们的调查目标。去年年底，检察官告诉《泰晤士报》，调查已经结束。
Reached this week, Peters told The Times: “I am pleased, but not at all surprised, to see that my statements to the FBI about Feuer were corroborated by multiple, independent sources.”
本周，Peters告诉《泰晤士报》： “我很高兴，但一点也不惊讶，因为我向联邦调查局提供的关于Feuer的证词,得到了多个独立消息来源的证实”。
A longtime politician, Feuer served on the state Assembly and City Council before voters elected him to be the city’s top lawyer in 2013. He grew up in San Bernardino as the son of an educator and survivor of a Nazi prisoner of war camp. Fastidious and ambitious, he earned the nickname “Saint Michael” from City Council members for his focus on ethics. His term as city attorney ended in December 2022.
Feuer一直从政，曾在州众议院和市议会任职，2013 年被选民推举为该市的最高律师。他在圣贝纳迪诺长大，是一名教育家的儿子，也是纳粹战俘营的幸存者。他勤奋好学、雄心勃勃，因注重道德而被市议员们昵称为 “圣迈克尔”（Saint Michael）。他的市检察官任期于 2022 年 12 月结束。
The Times and Consumer Watchdog had sought the roughly 1,400 pages of documents, which include more than 30 search warrants filed during the government’s investigation, to better understand what investigators learned about Feuer.
泰晤士报和 “消费者监督组织 ” 曾获得了约 1400 页的文件，其中包括在政府调查期间提交的 30 多份搜查令。以更好地让调查人员了解到的关于 Feuer 的情况。
In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. said the documents could be unsealed, with personal data and references to grand jury proceedings redacted.
美国地区法官Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. 在上个月的一项裁决中表示，这些文件可以解封，但其中的个人数据和大陪审团程序的内容将被删节。
The documents show prosecutors’ desire to pore over Feuer’s phone records and emails, and raise questions about why they never charged Feuer with obstruction of justice or lying to federal authorities.
文件显示，检察官希望获得Feuer的电话记录和电子邮件，并质疑他们为何从未指控Feuer妨碍司法公正或向联邦当局撒谎。
Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, declined to comment on the lack of charges against Feuer. McEvoy said the office has a “strong history” of convicting public officials.
洛杉矶联邦检察官办公室发言人 Ciaran McEvoy 拒绝对费尔未被起诉一事发表评论。麦克沃伊说，该办公室在给公职人员定罪方面有着 “辉煌的历史”。
“As we have stated before, where the evidence did not establish every element of a federal crime beyond a reasonable doubt, we have not pursued charges,” McEvoy said.
McEvoy 说：”正如我们之前所说的，如果证据没有在排除合理怀疑的情况下确定联邦犯罪的每一个要素，我们就不会继续起诉
Three people went to prison following the government’s criminal probe, including David F. Alexander, a former DWP cybersecurity chief who was charged with lying to the FBI about his role in a bribery scheme and sentenced to four years. Peters was sentenced to nine months of home confinement.
在政府的刑事调查之后，有三人被判入狱. 其中包括前水利部网络安全主管大卫-亚历山大（David F. Alexander），他被控向联邦调查局谎报自己贿赂 ，并被判处四年监禁。彼得斯Peters被判处 9 个月的家庭监禁。
The corruption scheme originated after the launch of a new billing system by the DWP in 2013, which resulted in thousands of customers receiving erroneous utility bills.
腐败计划源于 DWP 于 2013 年推出的新账单系统, 这导致成千上万的客户收到错误的水电费账单。
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