(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) — A new racketeering charge handed up by a federal grand jury against state Sen. Leland Yee says he was part of an organized crime operation in which he sold legislative votes and influence for piles of money, just as he was earlier accused of conspiring to traffic in guns.
The indictment made public on Friday reveals for the first time a 2013 incident in which Yee, D-San Francisco, allegedly agreed to take $60,000 — which he believed was coming from a National Football League team owner — in exchange for his and another senator’s vote on a bill dealing with workers’ compensation insurance for pro athletes.
“We gotta juice this thing,” Yee allegedly told an undercover FBI agent.
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4 comments:
Well, look where he's from...home of Feinstein, the crook. Politicians are followers, they learn, and follow the actions of the people above. R, D or an I... all crooks.
oh, god, no. don't tell me all democrats are like this! This is the very first time i've ever heard of such a thing...
Lather, rinse, repeat with the next democrat.
Yee is just the one who got caught. This is rampant among the majority of elected representation.
Think about it now, do you actually think this country would be in the shape it is in if the majority of our representation voted as their constituency wanted them to?
The young female student who said, when asked how she'd fix our gov't, "It can't be fixed, you'd have to start over", is exactly right.
What's the difference between him and the rest of his cohorts? NOTHING.
He merely got caught.
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