KFI:
The man long suspected to be the central figure in a federal bribery and corruption probe at City Hall was arrested at his home in Boyle Heights today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar was taken into custody this morning in connection with a two-year investigation into a “pay-to-play” corruption case that involved hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a developer allegedly in exchange for Huizar’s support of a downtown high-rise project.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Huizar is facing a single federal charge of conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Federal prosecutors allege that he accepted at least $1.5 million in bribes from developers.
MOIRE HERE
Come back to Baltimore County, MD like back in the day
when they nailed Agnew for when he was county exec.
The local boys are at it again.
Democrat hispanic: Get out of jail free card!
Why in the hell do some people think they’re going to be the first to get away with it?
Pendejo
Career politicians = legal mobsters
Let’s play name the party shall we? No mention that this crook is a Democrat… I know surprising huh. Had a Republican Councilman been the perp the party affiliation would be in the headline.
One Congressional trick is to exempt themselves from every law they pass. Congress Critters violate RICO on a daily basis.
I was watching the Robert Mitchum version of Farewell My Lovely last week on TV, these LA cops are just as corrupt or worse than those depicted in that adaptation of the Raymond Chandler story. I still prefer the older version with Richard Powell over the newer version. And besides the great big goon Mike Mazurki was a better Moose Malloy who was searching for his girlfriend Velma.
It was actually Murder My Sweet, Farewell My Lovely is another Raymond Chandler story and movie.
This goes all the way up to the idiot mayor of L.A., Garcetti:
https://www.bisnow.com/los-angeles/news/commercial-real-estate/fbi-looking-into-corruption-in-downtown-los-angeles-development-deals-96713
The FBI under sessions did nothing.
Anonymous- Yup. There’s more than Englander and Huizar in trouble here. They’re (FBI) investigating another city councilman right now. No way Garcetti didn’t know, seeing that one of his friends was involved with Huizar.
Earlier today when this came out a photo of the money and other items was shown. Chinese envelopes were among the items.