When the U.S. attorney’s corruption case targeting Los Angeles City Hall first broke into view, much of the public’s attention focused on vivid descriptions of cash bribes, escort services and lavish trips to Las Vegas.
But as the investigation has unspooled over the past year, federal prosecutors have laid out another, less sensational set of allegations: that a deputy mayor-turned-real estate consultant worked to arrange “indirect bribes” for city officials by routing the money through those officials’family members.
Prosecutors brought an indictment alleging that former Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, while working for downtown developers, set up a job for the family member of a city commissioner; had his companyhire a relative of a City Council aide; and proposed a fake consulting contract with another city staffer’s mother.
Such job offers, even modest ones, were a way of greasing the wheels of the city bureaucracy, prosecutors allege.
Hey guys I'll have my son and brother go around the world selling my name for millions and take my cut. They'll never figure it out! And our simpleton voters will defend us to the death!
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When the U.S. attorney’s corruption case targeting Los Angeles City Hall first broke into view, much of the public’s attention focused on vivid descriptions of cash bribes, escort services and lavish trips to Las Vegas.
But as the investigation has unspooled over the past year, federal prosecutors have laid out another, less sensational set of allegations: that a deputy mayor-turned-real estate consultant worked to arrange “indirect bribes” for city officials by routing the money through those officials’ family members.
Prosecutors brought an indictment alleging that former Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, while working for downtown developers, set up a job for the family member of a city commissioner; had his company hire a relative of a City Council aide; and proposed a fake consulting contract with another city staffer’s mother.
Such job offers, even modest ones, were a way of greasing the wheels of the city bureaucracy, prosecutors allege.
Hey its only my family that made millions from the Chi Coms for doing nothing
AOC level defense right there
Why did Joe have to lie about the laptop in the debate?
Where is the document proving your claim?
H is reveling in his obfuscation and ignorance today. Welfare check must have arrived.
Someone's getting testy about the "Joe got a $5 million bribe!" narrative's collapse.
Amazing the dazzler can draw a breath. Anything as stupid as he is should be dead via natural selection. Iron lung?
Nothing collapsed except your lies
HTH
Hey guys I'll have my son and brother go around the world selling my name for millions and take my cut. They'll never figure it out! And our simpleton voters will defend us to the death!
Multimillionaire gets $40,0000 "cut" from his sister.
Got him!
You're the only one pretending its 40,000
Like I said the simpleton voters will lap it up!
By the way what is your threshold for a public official taking a bribe? 41,000?
You've definitively proven he got $40,000 from his sister and that money is fungible.
Big day for you gals.
43,000?
We call that "0.48% for the Big Guy" here in the crime family.
Trump legal fund weighs in.
And we finally get around to TRUMP
Better get a refresh on the talking points after today. You are humiliating yourself for a guy the DNC is about to dump
You brought in the RNC and now, as you know, the RNC is Daddy.
RNC = Trump Crime Family
Just checking in to let you know it’s final: I won’t be voting for Hunter Biden for president.
Hunter was the lone gunman
Hate to see you guys embarrass yourselves over a candidate about to get dumped