"L.A. prosecutor put on leave over questionable case sparked by election conspiracy theories"

LAT on the latest update to a bizarre story from last month:

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has been placed on administrative leave for his role in the questionable prosecution of a Michigan software executive that may have been sparked by conspiracy theorists who deny the validity of the 2020 presidential election.

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The district attorney’s Public Integrity Division, which filed the case against [the executive], this week was brought under the control of [Los Angeles District Attorney] Gascón’s chief of staff

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Gascón announced [the] arrest Oct. 4, claiming that the 51-year-old chief executive had endangered the personal information — including Social Security numbers — of an unknown number of L.A. County poll workers by storing it on an overseas server.

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But by November, prosecutors had dropped all charges ...

During his initial news conference, Gascón did not mention that his office’s investigation was sparked by a conversation with one of the founders of True the Vote, a Texas-based nonprofit that has fomented conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.

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Former President Trump praised Gascón and called on him to dig further