Posted on 02/24/2016 1:58:00 PM PST by PROCON
A federal district judge sentenced former state Sen. Leland Yee, a San Francisco Democrat, to five years in prison Wednesday for trading political favors for campaign contributions. He was also fined $20,000.
Yee admitted in a plea deal that he was part of a racketeering conspiracy that involved exchanging official acts for money, conspiring to traffic in weapons and money laundering. Specifically, Lee promised an undercover FBI agent favors in return for campaign contributions.
During the hourlong proceedings, Yee asked the court for leniency in light of his public humiliation, his wife's severe illness, his admissions of wrongdoing and his past record of public service.
Yee told the judge that his crimes had hurt his family, his supporters, government institutions and the public.
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Good riddance!
Who did he rat on in order to only get 5 years?
He also tried to get video games banned because the promoted violence and greed. Heh. While he’s moving guns to the Philippines and taking sacks of cash to play legal bills.
His anti-video assault was thrown out of court.
Yee was
- Running guns
- Selling his influence as a public servant
- Running guns (let me re-emphasize that)
- Working with known gangsters
- Bribing and taking bribes
And he gets the same amount of time that the Hammonds got for inadvertently burning some Federal sagebrush?
Who did Yee piss off in the establishment to actually get busted?
Yeah, the 5 year sentence is BS but the judge probably took his old age into account.
Definitely lower than pond scum.
specifically buying shoulder-launched missiles from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an Islamist terrorist group located in the southern Philippines and attempting to re-sell those weapons.
He is an award-winning gun control advocate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Yee
Best part.
On July 1, 2015, Yee pleaded guilty to a felony racketeering count in relation to money laundering, public corruption and bribery in a San Francisco Chinatown organized crime case. [7] On February 24, 2016, Yee was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison.
Yeah! The only real justice is that he will make lots of “new friends” in prison.
There was a rumor that Yee was seeking to arrange a hit on a political opponent. Nothing was ever proven on that point.
The FBI? I believe some integrity yet exists within that organization. But soetoro still has a year to further undercut them.
Mistakes were made. The important thing now is that we can all learn from this unfortunate episode and move forward. Closure and stuff.
Leland Yee married his wife Maxine in 1972 and together they raised four children who attended San Francisco public schools.
He currently lives in San Francisco’s Sunset District.
Not anymore! They need to update wiki when the slimebag heads off to prison.
He should have gotten life for selling shoulder launched missiles.
Mthr Krf
He was strong on Prop 209 -- which means, Zero won't be granting him a last day pardon. Thanks PROCON.
No kidding!
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