CalWatchdog:
Headed for a sizable jail term, ex-state Sen. Ronald Calderon, caught in a sting that laid bare his role in an influence-peddling scheme, has reached the likely end of his political career.
Calderon, “once the most powerful member of a politically influential family, was sentenced Friday in Los Angeles to 42 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in a federal corruption case,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “The Montebello Democrat, who served in the state Senate for eight years ending in 2014, admitted in a plea deal in June that he had accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from undercover FBI agents and a hospital executive in return for official favors.”
Calderon’s guilty plea put him on the hook for one count of mail fraud, and for “soliciting more than $155,000 in payments or financial benefits in exchange for supporting or blocking legislation,” as the Associated Press noted. “He took $12,000 worth of trips to Las Vegas from an undercover FBI agent who posed as the owner of a Los Angeles movie studio seeking his support for film tax credits, though the legislation never passed, according to his signed plea agreement. The agent hired Calderon’s daughter for a $3,000 a month no-show job and paid $5,000 toward his son’s college tuition.”
We’ve been watching this in Cali. He didn’t do shit compared to Hitlary. Not that another corrupt Cali Lib Mex shouldn’t go to jail.
How did they prove intent? Director Comey must have been very surprised by this conviction.
Suprising they found anyone to convict him in lib run Cali.
organgrinder, here’s what you need to understand about California. 90 percent of land mass is Ultra Conservative. It’s that heavily populated 10 percent that kick the rest of our asses.
One down….how many thousands to go?
Good. One less dirtbag politician. But his numbers aren’t exactly “Clintonesque.”
42 months in a country club or cell block C in a real shithole?
DRAIN the SWAMP!
Man, that sleaze ball even looks corrupt. He could have been jailed on looks alone! He and Hillary hopefully can share adjoining cells in Gitmo and keep each other and their fellow vermin company!
Prison where? The resort prison in Lompoc? Put him in with his criminal peers SAN QUINTON.