Los Angeles County Superior Court
By Greg Katz
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LANCASTER - When the wind whips the Antelope Valley sand into Judge Bernie C. LaForteza's face, it triggers a very particular memory: Operation Iraqi Freedom.
LaForteza, a reserve judge advocate general in the Army who holds the rank of major, spent 2005 in Kuwait advising generals and prosecuting rank-and-file nogoodniks - two defendants he court-martialed were stealing cash from the Army's coffers. One wa... (continued)
