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Leland Yee co-defendant trying to shift blame, prosecutors say (shoulder fired missiles)
SF Gate ^ | 9/11/14 | Bob Egelko

Posted on 09/13/2014 1:40:16 PM PDT by Libloather

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Yee, D-San Francisco, and Jackson, his former consultant and a former San Francisco school board president, are among 29 defendants charged with racketeering and other crimes after an undercover FBI investigation. Prosecutors have accused Yee, now suspended from his Senate seat, of soliciting tens of thousands of dollars from agents posing as campaign contributors in exchange for political favors.

In a filing Aug. 14, Jackson's lawyer asserted that an FBI agent had been removed from the investigation and reprimanded because of financial misconduct.

The agent, identified in court records only as UCE 4773, posed as a Georgia businessman and gave Jackson $20,000 to help pay the debts of Yee's unsuccessful 2011 campaign for mayor of San Francisco, according to an FBI affidavit. The affidavit said the campaign then laundered the money to fit within the city's $500 contribution limits.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2011election; armssmuggling; blame; california; democrats; fbiagent; keithjackson; lelandyee; missiles; philippines; sanfrancisco; smuggling; uce4773; yee
Really bad optics in an election year.
1 posted on 09/13/2014 1:40:16 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
The same Leland Yee, a staunch gun control confiscation advocate who got in trouble for partnering with a certain "Shrimp Boy" Chow in gun trafficking, according to, of all places, the HuffPo. The Chinese take-outs in his district need to name a new dish after him, Sum Dum Schmuck.
2 posted on 09/13/2014 2:00:27 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Libloather

Shoulder goes up thingy? Folding high capacity magazine clips.


3 posted on 09/13/2014 2:06:07 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: rktman

Nice tagline. I see you’re a RACE-st too ;)


4 posted on 09/13/2014 2:08:49 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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WHAT DO SEN DI/FI, HER HUBBY, HARRY REID, INDICTED YEE, INDICTED CHOW KNOW ABOUT THIS?

Then-Pres Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security.

Here's just one of the endless examples: the Clintons' cupidity is well-documented---shows Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that in January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets.

Not only did then-pres Clinton move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese.

Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.

The result? Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.

Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.

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WAKE UP-CALL The Clintons have received zillions from the Chi/Coms---we all assumed it was going to their three tax-exempt foundations. Now here's another angle (think money-laundering, and kickbacks).

The Harry Reid connection to the tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation needs to be investigated.

PUT ON YOUR TINFOIL HATS TO CONNECT THE DOTS:

(1) Harry Reid's son Rory is in business w/ the Chi/Coms on a multi-billion dollar solar energy project; Cliven Bundy and his land are standing in the way.

(2) Reports say Bill Clinton recently went to China to panhandle for his tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation.

(3) The "Clinton Global Initiative" (NOT KNOWN for giving out grants)---gave Harry Reid's granddaughter a grant for a Brooklyn, NY theatre she runs (what is a Brooklyn theatre's connection to "global initiatives?")

(4) A Nevada energy company also gave Reid's granddaughter's theatre group a grant.

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"Money laundering" comes to mind. Could the Chinese be financing the Reid's solar project through donations to theClinton Foundations....which is then laundered to Reid's granddaughter?

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REFERENCE----HARRY REID IS LIVID THAT HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER HAS BEEN OUTED AS A RECIPIENT OF LAUNDERED CAMPAIGN CASH---Reid lashed out at reporters, saying, “My granddaughter has been the target of harassing phone calls, strangers tracking her down, knocking on her door and negative, unwanted attention on the Internet.” “This has gone too far and it needs to stop now,” Reid said. “I deeply regret any role I had in creating this situation but now, as a grandparent, I say enough is enough.”

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Besides the "jewelry company" financed by her grandfather, Ryan Elisabeth Reid runs the Sprat Theater Company, a small theater in Brooklyn, which is also coming under scrutiny. According to Sprat’s Theatre Company Web site, it has received grants/contributions from:

<><> the Clinton Global Initiative (connected to global terrorism via Muslim Brotherhood employee),
<><> two major Las Vegas foundations:
Caesar’s Foundation, and the NV Energy Foundation.

NOTE NV Energy Foundation---is a non-profit division of NV Energy (a public utility). The NV Energy utility is a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company which took over in 2013....and is now owned by a Warren Buffet unit.

Harry w/ grand-daughter Ryan Elizabeth Reid.

5 posted on 09/13/2014 2:19:49 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Obviously, a chip off the old block.


6 posted on 09/13/2014 2:40:10 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Impala64ssa

Very impressive description! I bow to your superior humor!

Amazing catch and comeback!


7 posted on 09/13/2014 3:08:46 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: Libloather
Really bad optics in an election year.

Bad optics for Democrats. That is why the Mainstream Media doesn't want to cover this. The local papers sometimes are forced to especially in the socialist state of California.

8 posted on 09/13/2014 3:12:23 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: Liz

Harry’s granddaughter does know it’s 2014 not 1914 right?


9 posted on 09/13/2014 4:41:24 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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