Ex-Sen. Yee pays $128,000 in campaign funds to lawyers since indictment (shoulder fired missiles)

LA Times ^ | 2/03/15 | Patrick McGreevy

[Libloather]

Former state Sen. Leland Yee’s campaign committee for last year’s secretary of state race has spent $128,000 on attorney's fees since he was indicted on federal corruption charges, he reported this week.

The practice is legal, but one ethics expert said it should be restricted.

"Unfortunately California’s relatively weak restrictions on the use of surplus campaign funds mean that politicians can turn these accounts into personal slush funds," said Sarah Swanbeck, an advocate for the group Common Cause.

[Libloather]

All your money are belong to the perps.

[icwhatudo]

No mention of party in title, subtitle, first sentence, or first paragraph...therefore its a democrat.

[MeshugeMikey]

Reerend Yee is a rong standing membuh of the democlat palty

[Auntie Dem]

At the very least campaign funds spent on personal things should be taxable to the corrupt politician. But Demonrats are probably exempt from laws like that.

[Auntie Dem]

At the very least campaign funds spent on personal things should be taxable to the corrupt politician. But Demonrats are probably exempt from laws like that.

[PghBaldy]

I got him mixed up with Wu of tiger costume fame...

[gaijin]

[TigersEye]

Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, ... was indicted on charges of accepting $62,000 in campaign contributions in return for favors, and offering to arrange the sale of machine guns and shoulder-fired missiles to an undercover FBI agent posing as a mob figure.

Yet no charges of terrorist activity. It's nice to be a DemoRat.

[generally]

Republicans are accused of terrorism based on their very existence. Democrats engage in actual terrorist activity and get a pass. I’m sick of this crap.