This s**t has been going on for years. The cartels own 10% of the businesses in the LA area not to mention those paid off in D.C. and Sacramento.
Sacramento is crooked as they come! When I left P&CSD in 1993 I’d been saying for years “when the good guys are indistinguishable from the bad guys - we know we’re in trouble!” It’s only gone downhill from there. Soon there won’t be any good ones left. They aren’t safe around them, and who’d want to be associated with any of them even if they were safe?