Posted on 03/30/2014 2:26:04 PM PDT by Libloather
In more than a decade of campaigns for the California Legislature, San Francisco mayor and secretary of state, state Sen. Leland Yee raised in excess of $5 million. Yet it was a campaign debt only a fraction of that amount that federal officials allege pulled the veteran politician into a sprawling sting operation.
The 137-page FBI affidavit against Yee and more than 20 other defendants says the San Francisco Democrat’s focus on retiring a $70,000 campaign debt from his unsuccessful 2011 mayor’s race and raising money for his 2014 candidacy for secretary of state led him to accept bribes in return for official favors and arrange overseas weapons deals.
“We’re 32 out now. $32,000 out ... from paying off the debt,” the complaint says Yee told an undercover agent posing as an Atlanta-based businessman – who had already given more than $15,000 to the lawmaker – in the cafeteria of a state office building in San Francisco in September 2012. “So, um, if you could do another 10, that would be good.”
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From a little debt to importing shoulder fired missiles. Impressive.
Weeelllll, then it’s all cool, right?
‘Alas, poor Yee. I didn’t know him, Horatio.’
So it’s not his fault? It’s the fault of his debt?
Good to know.
That’s crap. This is just another way they can use to claim we need campaign funding reform.
He did it because he is sympathetic to the terrorist who he was hoping to sell the weapons to.
If only he didn’t have to find money to fund his re-election campaign, Senator Lee wouldn’t have to engage in arms trafficking.
It’s the Nefarious Koch brothers fault for creating an atmosphere in which Democrats like Yee might be criticized in commercials on broadcast TV.
Yee needed the money, he had to get it from somewhere.
Leland, we hardly knew Yee.
Purely a financial issue due to societal reasons.
LOL, good won.
I’d saw Yee was the “Root of the criminal behavior”.
They had to dig pretty damn deep to find a way to spin the story like this. Guess it’s a good thing he didn’t have any sick or dying relatives, ect.
yeah they have dude named Little rat or something among Chinatown mafia LOL!
/head exploding
If it had happened, then CNN would have covered it.
“yeah they have dude named Little rat or something among Chinatown mafia LOL!”
Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow! Who has been here since he was 16 from China but is not a citizen and has been in San Quentin (for what was supposed to be a 160 month sentence), but is still allowed to live here. And we thought the Mexicans were bad.
That the dude try think of the dude name OH MAN KFI John and Ken were goofing on that guy LOL!
Question is he any relations to Ray Chow the Hong Kong director who discovered Bruce lee that dude
I think the fact that he’s a total scumbag is closer to the root than his debt.
Will they impound his Rolls now??
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