Ex champion of gun control off to prison

[WillBrink]

That sums up the DNC as best as anything can: hypocrites to their core. Far right is far from perfect to be sure, but this...

Ex-state Sen. Leland Yee gets 5 years in prison in corruption case

State Sen. Leland Yee did not want to retire.

His term was ending, and he had just run and lost a mayor's race in San Francisco. He decided to aim for secretary of state, which oversees state elections, and desperately needed to raise money for his campaign.

That is when Yee, 67, got into trouble.

The San Francisco Democrat was caught in an FBI sting that recorded him promising votes and guns to an undercover agent who was funneling him contributions. He pleaded guilty last year rather than face a trial.

And Wednesday, after decades as an elected officeholder, he was sentenced to five years in prison for doing political favors in exchange for campaign cash — or, as the judge put it — for selling his vote.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...223-story.html

[Sam]

Karma ...

[jsbhike]

I suspect "That is when Yee, 67, got into trouble" needs a "finally" inserted in to it.

[MountainRaven]

Story is from 2016. I think I heard that Yee was due to be paroled, soon.

(Nope, kinda; a quick search shows that he's due to be released in July 2020. So just over a year left in his prison sentence. Which makes sense, since he was arrested in 2014 and plead guilty in 2015.)

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

Didn't this happen years ago?

ETA: Article was written in 2016, so yes.

[WillBrink]

Story is from 2016. I think I heard that Yee was due to be paroled, soon.

(Nope, kinda; a quick search shows that he's due to be released in July 2020. So just over a year left in his prison sentence. Which makes sense, since he was arrested in 2014 and plead guilty in 2015.)

My bad. Thought the sentencing was new. Mods can close/delete as needed.