As the operation proceeds, a deputy from the LA County sheriff's department is waiting outside in the corridor for news.

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As the rescue operation proceeds, some important questions will no doubt be asked: should the region's governments have been better prepared for such a catastrophe, given how often such giant quakes have happened before?

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The feds maintain that he was the leader of the gambling operation, overseeing the laundering of its proceeds for Russian oligarchs overseas.

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