LA Sheriffs display Proud Boys, Three Percenters insignias in locker room

Villanueva even has ties to the shadowy Council for National Policy, a dark money group where powerful Republican leaders, conservative donors, and members of the radical right convene to devise political strategies and projects. The Center for Media and Democracy, a national watchdog group that investigates corruption and corporate front groups, has been looking into the Council for National Policy for some time. Their research director, David Armiak, told Knock LA “that Villanueva’s Democratic Party allegiance seems odd for the CNP: ‘there [are] no Democrats involved in this, and if they are, then they moved to the right.'”