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Indictment against Mark Ridley-Thomas another blow to L.A. politics
LA Times via msn ^
| 13 October 2021
| David Zahniser, Benjamin Oreskes, Dakota Smith, Matt Hamilton
Posted on 10/13/2021 10:09:03 PM PDT by blueplum
Los Angeles' political and community leaders were stunned by the corruption indictment handed down Wednesday against Mark Ridley-Thomas, one of the city's best-known and longest-serving officials.
Ridley-Thomas is accused of conspiring with Marilyn Louise Flynn, who at the time was dean of USCโs School of Social Work, to steer county money to the university in return for admitting his son Sebastian into the graduate school with a full-tuition scholarship and a paid professorship. Ridley-Thomas was on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors at the time...
...Ridley-Thomas, 66, is the third L.A. City Council member to face federal corruption charges over the last two years. He and Flynn each face charges of conspiracy, bribery, mail and wire fraud....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: corruptpoliticians; democrat; losangeles; paytoplay; politicalprivilege; ridleythomas
R-T said in August he wouldn't run for mayor after all, so maybe he knew this was coming?
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posted on
10/13/2021 10:09:03 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
Government corruption! Shocked!
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posted on
10/13/2021 10:24:19 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(โEverything Woke turns to shit.โ ~ President Donald Trump)
To: blueplum
R-T has always been corrupt, going between county and city government. Sucking off the public tit.
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posted on
10/13/2021 10:31:22 PM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: blueplum
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posted on
10/13/2021 10:55:31 PM PDT
by
BiteYourSelf
( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
To: blueplum
Wow. He’s been so corrupt for so long.
Office renovations.
He’s obviously outlived his usefulness and the Obama gang associated with USC doesn’t want any light shed on them by petty schemes.
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posted on
10/13/2021 11:07:14 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: BiteYourSelf
And no party listed.Then I assume he is a rat ๐ bastard. ๐๐๐๐
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posted on
10/13/2021 11:16:03 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
To: Mark17
He is a Demonrat. You can look it up on his Wikipedia page.
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posted on
10/13/2021 11:23:12 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
To: blueplum
They put off recognizing him for what he was, and not they
can’t get away with it any longer.
LOL
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posted on
10/13/2021 11:23:22 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
To: WMarshal
He is a Demonrat. You can look it up on his Wikipedia page.I knew he was a rat ๐ as soon as they didnโt mention his party affiliation.
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posted on
10/13/2021 11:38:56 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
To: All
Los Angeles’ political and community leaders were stunned...
If anyone was stunned it was not because of his corrupt behavior but because they believed he was “untouchable”.
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posted on
10/13/2021 11:40:56 PM PDT
by
pluvmantelo
(CRT-Dindunuffinism with a Marxist facade)
To: BiteYourSelf
it’s almost redundant to list a party for any Los Angeles critter - they’re either dem or commie or both
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posted on
10/14/2021 12:05:35 AM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
To: blueplum
Another life-long "community servant" getting mega-rich off the taxpayers.
Move along, nothing to see here.
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posted on
10/14/2021 12:09:56 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
To: blueplum
The school of social work is for those kids who aren’t smart enough to get into the school of journalism.
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posted on
10/14/2021 12:36:21 AM PDT
by
KevinB
(''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
To: blueplum
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posted on
10/14/2021 2:01:21 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: blueplum
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posted on
10/14/2021 4:10:13 AM PDT
by
BiteYourSelf
( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
To: blueplum
Surprise - USC's School of Social Work co-conspirator Dean Marilyn Louise Flynn is a white grandmother!
The white male in the photo is a local government official, not her husband.
To: blueplum
“Los Angeles’ political and community leaders were stunned by the corruption indictment handed down”
It was the indictment that stunned them. Not the crime itself.
To: blueplum
The Mexicans continue their decades long effort to take down white commies and racist BLM supporters in California.
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posted on
10/14/2021 6:57:03 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
To: WMarshal
The hyphenated last name is a dead giveaway.
To: blueplum
Curious if he goes to prison like the tv actress did for trying to get their 2 kids in school using their OWN money while he was using taxpayer money.
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