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March 15, 2024
A then-assistant to former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar secretly recorded his boss as they discussed what to do with a $200,000 cash bribe amid an ongoing FBI probe, according to audio heard Friday by a federal jury considering racketeering and bribery charges against another former city official, Raymond Chan.
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March 14, 2024
An FBI agent told a California federal jury on Thursday in former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan's federal bribery trial that Chan lied to him during a 2018 interview immediately after he was warned that lying to the bureau is a crime.
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January 26, 2024
A California federal judge sentenced former Los Angeles City Councilor Jose Huizar to 13 years in prison Friday for a yearslong "pay-to-play" scheme that raked in nearly $2 million in bribes from developers in return for approving projects, describing his conduct as "outrageous" and criticizing the politician for showing little remorse.
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January 08, 2024
A California federal judge has denied a former Los Angeles deputy mayor's bid to dismiss bribery, wire fraud and racketeering conspiracy charges, saying that the allegations mostly concern his time in public office, making his private citizen defense inapposite.
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July 21, 2023
A real estate developer convicted of giving $500,000 in bribes to then-City Councilmember Jose Huizar in exchange for getting a nonprofit's challenge to a project dropped was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison by a California federal judge, who noted the defendant "readily accepted and exploited" Huizar's corrupt offer.
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April 13, 2023
A California federal judge finally declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of a former Los Angeles deputy mayor accused of bribery and racketeering conspiracy, in a trial which has been on hiatus since March after his defense attorney fell ill, and ordered the defendant to retain new counsel by April 24.
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March 22, 2023
Former Los Angeles deputy mayor Raymond Chan's bribery trial, which has been postponed since his attorney fell ill on March 2, remained in limbo Wednesday when a California federal judge stopped short of Chan's request for a mistrial, instead ordering medical updates and setting a hearing for next month.
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March 16, 2023
A California federal judge said on Thursday that before he could declare a mistrial in ex-Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan's bribery trial, he needs additional details on the health status of Chan's defense attorney, whose sudden illness and hospitalization have postponed proceedings for the last two weeks.
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March 14, 2023
A real estate company convicted of bribing a former Los Angeles City Council member has asked a California federal judge for an acquittal or new trial, arguing the prosecution's strategy was to "front-load the jury" with evidence about the councilor's independent criminal acts and pay-to-play scheme.
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March 01, 2023
A former Los Angeles city government employee testified on Wednesday in the bribery trial of former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan that Chan opposed a departmental consolidation that would have eliminated his position — an effort in which prosecutors allege he corruptly enlisted the aid of convicted City Councilman Jose Huizar.