Posted on 12/03/2020 4:19:47 PM PST by blueplum
A Torrance-based real estate developer pleaded guilty on Thursday to felony conspiracy, closing a major chapter in a campaign money laundering case that covered more than six years’ worth of political contributions to more than half a dozen Los Angeles politicians....
...While the project was under review, Leung’s employees, business partners and many others in his orbit made donations to campaigns, officeholder accounts and political committees supporting an array of elected officials, including Garcetti, County Supervisor Janice Hahn and City Councilman Joe Buscaino, who represented the Harbor Gateway neighborhood.
The Times’ investigation found that a single house, located on 223rd Street in West Carson, had generated more than $40,000 in political donations from a handful of residents — Mexican and Central American immigrants who had jobs working on Leung properties. One person living in the house, a repairman originally from El Salvador, gave 22 donations totaling $20,300 over roughly eight years, according to contribution reports.
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I was expecting ransomnote to post this.
Of course the guy paying the bribes goes to prison. The folks taking the bribe get re-elected.
Criminal trash.
Looking forward to KFI’s John and Ken’s evisceration of Mayor Yoga Pants.
If you have ever gone through the building permit process in Los Angeles, you would understand why this happens. I personally would contribute to a legal defense fund if some Contractor finally lost it with them and Shot them all. I am at 2 years and 9 months, everything is Signed off and sitting on some clowns desk for the last 6 weeks, if they ever get him sober enough to find his pants he can come down and stamp and initial my plans
Bad to give, ok to receive?
I was in construction on the East Coast decades ago (past the statute of limitations :-) ).
I had to bribe no less than one then US Senator John Kerry to get a job approval past the MA state bureaucracy. The deal was that if you donated to US Senator Kerry he would make the call to state officials and they would do whatever you wanted. (This was strange since the US Senate was a federal office and I needed state permits—but my “inside” contacts assured me that this was how the business would get done.)
It worked.
Often the “long delays” have a hidden message—”Pay me.”
Like Rodney Dangerfield described in : Back To School
I’m pretty sure it’s bad to receive a) if you don’t return it and b) if you’re caught using your influence to override existing law for the benefit of said donor/bundler donations
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