Lashing back at federal officials and Senate colleagues, state Sen. Ron Calderon charged in a federal filing late Wednesday that authorities leaked an FBI affidavit against him after Calderon refused to participate in a sting operation targeting Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Sen. Kevin de León.
The filing in Sacramento federal court urges a judge to hold the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles in contempt, contending that last month’s release of a sealed FBI affidavit “has prejudiced any future grand jury proceeding and irreparably tainted any future court proceedings involving Senator Calderon.”
“The source of the leaked affidavit could only have come from the FBI and/or the (U.S. Attorney’s Office) which was directing the FBI operation,” the filing reads, adding that “the egregious constitutional violations” were meant to “shame Senator Calderon into accepting a plea agreement.”