California State Sen. Leland Yee (D) Arrested

SAN FRANCISCO — State Sen. Leland Yee, a prominent figure in California's Democratic legislative majority, was arrested in a federal corruption investigation Wednesday along with an ostentatious gangster known as "Shrimp Boy" — who insisted that he had gone straight — and two dozen of their alleged associates.

An affidavit filed in federal court in San Francisco by FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua said there was probable cause to believe that Yee had conducted wire fraud and had engaged in a conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and illegally import firearms.

Yee, 65, was taken into custody in San Francisco on Wednesday and was seen being loaded into an unmarked law enforcement vehicle under an umbrella, his wrists handcuffed behind his back. He was set to be released on $500,000 bond after surrendering his passport.

The affidavit paints a portrait of Yee that is by turns seedy and bumbling, and one deeply at odds with the high-minded image he had long cultivated. Yee, a candidate for secretary of state, is accused of being willing to take varied and numerous steps to solicit campaign donations and sidestep legal donation limits.

For instance, he is accused of seeking an official state Senate proclamation in the spring of 2013 praising the Ghee Kung Tong Freemason lodge in San Francisco. Yee sought the proclamation, according to the court complaint, in exchange for a $6,800 donation to one of his campaigns — a donation that was paid by an undercover FBI agent.

The organized crime figure known as Shrimp Boy, whose name is Raymond Chow, identifies himself as the "dragon head" of that Freemason organization on his Facebook page. The indictment says that Chow, 54, whose criminal history includes racketeering and robbery, has a position of "supreme authority" in the Triad, an international organized crime group.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-yee-arrest-20140327,0,3801978.story

Chicago style politics on the left coast, who knew?

Let's talk HYPOCRITE...

Upside? Sen. Yee was the leader of the California anti-gun movement, so it will take some time before they find a good choice to replace him. Hopefully they vet this one and make sure he doesn't have gangland ties.
One of the reasons Yee was doing this it to get money for campaigns. People want to restrict legal campaign donations, but won't that just drive it underground? So instead of people seeing how much Microsoft have gave Hickenlooper, will it be shoeboxes full of cash from gangsters like Henry Hill?

The California state senate suspended Yee and two other Democrats as well.

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25440366/state-senate-vote-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright

Roderick Wright was found guilty of 8 counts of perjury and voter fraud (gee, I thought voter fraud did not exist) two months ago and they finally got around to suspending him though he'll still get his full $90K+ salary, as will the two others.

Ron Calderon is accused of taking $100K in bribes, money laundering, and other corruption charges.

That's 7 percent of the California senate suspended so far. Great job Dems!

pineinthegrass wrote: The California state senate suspended Yee and two other Democrats as well.

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25440366/state-senate-vote-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright

Roderick Wright was found guilty of 8 counts of perjury and voter fraud (gee, I thought voter fraud did not exist) two months ago and they finally got around to suspending him though he'll still get his full $90K+ salary, as will the two others.

Ron Calderon is accused of taking $100K in bribes, money laundering, and other corruption charges.

That's 7 percent of the California senate suspended so far. Great job Dems!

Like I have always said, "power corrupts". In Ca. dems have the power. The only honest people in politics are tea party people and green party people. That is why people like LJ and archer have so much in common with Boehner and McConnell.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/02/ ... ty-on-run/

If they do not demonize their opponents, what else do they have?

"Kurtz concludes, “it may be that Christie was innocent in a legal sense but will still pay a huge political price. That may be unfair, but no one ever said presidential politics was fair.” Yes, but notice that certain scandals never stick to certain other figures.

As Brittany Cohan notices this morning, “Today Show talking about Bridgegate. Nothing about gun running, FBI raids, bribery, illegal campaign spending, etc. Because they’re Dems.”

If you’re not familiar with the gun running reference, it refers to this . . .

[California State Sen. Leland] Yee discussed helping the [undercover FBI] agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder fired automatic weapons and missiles, and took him through the entire process of getting them from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines to the United States, according to the affidavit.

The New York Times greeted that news with a one paragraph summary on page A21 Wednesday with the headline: “California: State Senator Accused of Corruption.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign- ... m-geraghty

BlazerBob wrote: "Kurtz concludes, “it may be that Christie was innocent in a legal sense but will still pay a huge political price. That may be unfair, but no one ever said presidential politics was fair.” Yes, but notice that certain scandals never stick to certain other figures.

As Brittany Cohan notices this morning, “Today Show talking about Bridgegate. Nothing about gun running, FBI raids, bribery, illegal campaign spending, etc. Because they’re Dems.”

If you’re not familiar with the gun running reference, it refers to this . . .

[California State Sen. Leland] Yee discussed helping the [undercover FBI] agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder fired automatic weapons and missiles, and took him through the entire process of getting them from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines to the United States, according to the affidavit.

The New York Times greeted that news with a one paragraph summary on page A21 Wednesday with the headline: “California: State Senator Accused of Corruption.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign- ... m-geraghty

Well if the national lefty media doesn't think this important enough to cover, maybe the local media will.... hopefully educating the people who voted for this scumbag.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... -c-w-cooke

Radio Silence on Leland Yee
He stands accused of conspiring to arm the Mafia, but the media won’t say it.

By Charles C. W. Cooke
APRIL 2, 2014 4:00 AM


Having assiduously ignored one of the gonzocorruption stories of the last decade, CNN this week offered a peculiar defense of its silence. Rankled by a curious Twitter user, who asked why “the Leland Yee story appears nowhere on CNN’s website,” the outlet explained that the decision was “in line with us covering state senators & state secretary of state races just about never.” “You see another conspiracy?” the account asked its inquisitor, snippily.

There is a lot of space between bias and conspiracy, and one does not have to believe that CNN’s editorial staff is sitting around stroking white cats and cackling for its explanation to remain unsatisfactory. A search for the words “state senator” on CNN’s website returns more than 2,800 results, the vast majority of them stories about . . . state senators. “Wendy Davis” — one such state senator — yields 168 entries, many of which predated Davis’s running for governor;“Stacey Campfield,” a Tennessee state senator who has made some choice comments about homosexuals, returns five; and “Ted Nugent,” who is not an elected figure of any sort, returns 186, a substantial number of which relate to comments he made while supporting Texas attorney general and gubernatorial nominee Greg Abbott earlier in the year. For his part, Yee’s name returns just one result, a video in which, per the outlet’s own blurb, he “discusses a bill to help prevent children from having access to violent video games.”



If we were to take CNN at its word, then, we would conclude that state senators are unusually fascinating when discussing video games, homosexuality, or abortion, but utterly unremarkable when indicted by the FBI for negotiating with Muslim separatist groups in the Philippines and conspiring to put missile launchers and fully automatic weapons into the hands of the Mafia. “Conspiracy”? Nah. That requires self-awareness."...

Too soon to play the race card? I have to believe that there's an angle that will become part of Yee's defense that will have to do with him being a minority and that will some how excuse him from whatever he "allegedly did."

Not surprisingly, this Corrupt Chinese Chump voted against the Shark-Fin ban in California. Obviously, cultural influences in Chinatown led to his decision to vote against an effort that had wide support from those in his own party. Predictably, he screamed discrimination and played the race card, same old desperate BS. The ban went through on a 25-9 BIPARTISAN vote. It was nice to see California get something right for a change.