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Ex-state Sen. Leland Yee gets 5 years in prison in corruption case
LATIMES ^ | Feb. 24, 2016 | Maura Dolan and Patrick McGreevy

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; affirmativeaction; banglist; california; corruption; demagogicparty; guncontrol; lelandlee; lelandyee; prop209; proposition209; quotas; racenorming; sanbernadino; sanbernardino; secondamendment; waronterror; yee
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This scumbag 'rat politician was a huge gun grabber who was busted on weapons trafficking among other crimes.

Good riddance!

1 posted on 02/24/2016 1:58:00 PM PST by PROCON
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2 posted on 02/24/2016 1:58:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: PROCON

Who did he rat on in order to only get 5 years?


3 posted on 02/24/2016 2:01:13 PM PST by Durbin
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To: PROCON

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.


4 posted on 02/24/2016 2:01:14 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: PROCON

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?


5 posted on 02/24/2016 2:02:02 PM PST by Regulator
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To: PROCON

Who did Yee piss off in the establishment to actually get busted?


6 posted on 02/24/2016 2:02:46 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Regulator

Yeah, the 5 year sentence is BS but the judge probably took his old age into account.


7 posted on 02/24/2016 2:07:57 PM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Definitely lower than pond scum.


8 posted on 02/24/2016 2:09:55 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: PROCON
I only know about the guy from his connection to the beautifully named Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow. I wish him a happy relationship with his new cellmate.
9 posted on 02/24/2016 2:14:24 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Gun trafficking

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

10 posted on 02/24/2016 2:14:25 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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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.


11 posted on 02/24/2016 2:17:56 PM PST by dhs12345
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Who did Yee piss off in the establishment to actually get busted?

There was a rumor that Yee was seeking to arrange a hit on a political opponent. Nothing was ever proven on that point.

12 posted on 02/24/2016 2:25:01 PM PST by flamberge
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To: Organic Panic

The FBI? I believe some integrity yet exists within that organization. But soetoro still has a year to further undercut them.


13 posted on 02/24/2016 2:26:26 PM PST by onedoug
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To: PROCON
No Leland Yee thread is complete without this picture of him:


14 posted on 02/24/2016 2:28:14 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Regulator
- Running guns
- Selling his influence as a public servant
- Running guns (let me re-emphasize that)
- Working with known gangsters
- Bribing and taking bribes

Mistakes were made. The important thing now is that we can all learn from this unfortunate episode and move forward. Closure and stuff.

15 posted on 02/24/2016 2:28:44 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: MarvinStinson

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.


16 posted on 02/24/2016 2:30:15 PM PST by dhs12345
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He should have gotten life for selling shoulder launched missiles.


17 posted on 02/24/2016 2:33:47 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: PROCON

Mthr Krf


18 posted on 02/24/2016 2:42:09 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
He was strong on Prop 209 -- which means, Zero won't be granting him a last day pardon. Thanks PROCON.

19 posted on 02/24/2016 3:03:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: MarvinStinson

No kidding!


20 posted on 02/24/2016 3:08:47 PM PST by dhs12345
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