Apparently, this crook has no party affiliation. How did he get elected in the late great state of Kalifornia?
Absolutely no Party affiliation reported; therefore, we all know he is a DEMOCRAT.
Filthy, corrupt partisan MSM.
LOL at the media not reporting his party affiliation..he is a DEM like all other corrupted scum..now imagine if he were a Republican, now THAT would be flashed everywhere
Ron Calderon Investigation: FBI Raids Offices Of California State Senator, Latino Legislative Caucus
06/05/13
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The FBI searched the offices of a California state senator and the Legislature’s Latino caucus on Tuesday but would not disclose the reason for the investigation.
Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI office in Los Angeles, said the warrants were served at about 3 p.m. Six to eight agents left the Capitol more than six hours later carrying at least a half-dozen boxes and what appeared to be a computer hard drive.
She would not disclose the target of the search warrants, but Senate Chief Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Beard told The Associated Press it was Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles County city of Montebello.
“It’s a federal search warrant served on Sen. Calderon’s office. It’s a sealed search warrant. I don’t know what it relates to,” Beard said.
He said Calderon was not present during the search.
Calderon did not return a message left on his cellphone. His spokesman, Rocky Rushing, said he could not comment and referred calls to Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos.
“I have a sense that they’re on a witch hunt,” Geragos said in a telephone interview. “My client refused to read their script and so this is what resulted....My client has done absolutely nothing wrong.”
He said he does not know what the FBI is investigating or if others also are targets of the investigation.
He contended the Justice Department is targeting his client, a Democrat, as “a bait and switch” to mute congressional Republicans’ outcry over recent disclosures, including that the department obtained telephone records from AP reporters and editors and private emails from a Fox News correspondent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/ron-calderon-investigation_n_3387921.html
The lawmaker is part of a powerful Southern California political dynasty. His two brothers served in the state Legislature and his nephew, Ian Calderon, was elected to the Assembly last year.
He is known as a moderate, business-friendly Democrat. After his election to the Assembly in 2002, he was a member of the Assembly Moderate Caucus.
Calderon played a key role last year in brokering an agreement that led to new state laws governing foreclosures that went beyond the national mortgage settlement with the nation’s five largest banks.
11/05/13
State Sen. Ron Calderon should resign, immediately, before an emerging corruption and bribery scandal forces him from office in handcuffs. True, Calderon has yet to be charged with a crime. But the litany of allegations detailed in a 125-page federal affidavit leaked last week clearly indicate big charges will be coming quite soon.
The sealed affidavit obtained by cable TV channel Al Jazeera America alleges the senator and his brother have collected more than $1 million in payments in exchange for shaping legislation in the Capitol.
What an embarrassment for the people he supposedly represents, the heavily Latino southeast county communities of Norwalk, Pico Rivera, Montebello, Whittier, Bell and other areas. A compromised Calderon has no ability to serve them and needs to leave the Legislature now.
Calderon, protecting himself, has kept silent in the face of allegations so egregious that they could become part of Californias biggest political scandal in decades. The family political dynasty hes central to has been dogged for decades by tawdry realities and worse rumors. But page after page of the affidavit paints the picture of a greedy politician hungry to pocket money from anyone who offers it, a man with no qualms about using the power of his office as a tool to advance favors entirely for his own financial gain, a man who shows a chilling readiness to be bought off with opulent gifts, a man who does not belong in public office.
The first problem involves the former owner of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, Michael Drobot. The affidavit accuses Drobot of giving Thomas Calderon, the senators brother, a $10,000 monthly consulting fee and $1 million in exchange for the brothers help ensuring that a legal loophole in state law went unchanged.
That loophole allegedly allowed Drobot to take tens of millions of dollars in workers compensation claims from the state.
The second part is the senators relationship with an undercover FBI agent posing as independent movie executive Rocky Patel. Calderon allegedly took $60,000 in bribes from the agent much of it funneled to his children in exchange for pushing legislation giving breaks to Hollywood.
http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20131105/state-sen-ron-calderon-must-resign-right-now-editorial
The crook’s district includes Bell, home of the $700,000-a-year city manager and part-time city councilmen, who were paid $100,000 annually. And he’s indicted on corruption charges? What a shock.
Actually I saw entire investigation piece on Al Jazeera America that scoop for them
Apparently the TV station CHANGED the sentence about him and identified him as a Dem.
“Name That Party”!
"Calderon, 56, and his brother, 59-year-old Thomas M. Calderon and a former member of the California State Assembly, were named in a federal indictment Thursday, Department of Justice spokesman Thom Mrozek said. The Democratic lawmaker, who is traveling, has agreed to surrender to federal authorities Monday."
I understand this corrupt government Senator is supposed to turn himself in today....The government only acted when they had their faces pushed into his corruption, which could not go ignored.