Our OpenCdA post on March 27, 2014, was titled Calif. State Senator Arrested By FBI — Gunrunning, Honest Services Fraud.
Today the Los Angeles Times is running an article headlined Ex-state Sen. Leland Yee gets 5 years in prison in corruption case. Website SFGate.com has more detail including more information about additional corrupt officials sentenced in its online article headlined Former state Sen. Leland Yee; ex-SF school board member sentenced.
The prosecution of this case shows that the FBI and the US Attorney in the Northern District of California takes public corruption cases very seriously — even when the corrupt officials are state and local rather than only federal.
Meanwhile, in the District of Idaho …