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Big FBI Raids! California Senator Arrested, Charlotte Mayor Arrested and More! (Video)
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 18:53
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Big FBI Raids! California Senator Arrested, Charlotte Mayor Arrested and More!
March 26 2014
Why the big operation? Is this to make the WH look better by comparison?
Federal law enforcement agents arrested California state Sen. Leland Yee (D) and Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon (D), and raided the offices of New York state Assemblyman William Scarborough (D) in connection with unrelated corruption investigations on Wednesday.
Yee was arrested at his home Wednesday morning and indicted on public corruption and bribery charges. Hundreds of FBI, IRS and local police officers also raided offices in the San Francisco Bay area and arrested several people, including Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, former head of a Hong Kong-based crime gang. Both Yee, a candidate for California secretary of state, and Chow were scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon.
Cannon, the mayor of Charlotte, N.C., was also arrested Wednesday and faces charges of theft and bribery. Following a four-year investigation, authorities accused Cannon, who has been mayor for less than six months, of accepting bribes five times from undercover federal agents.
“Between January 2013 and February 2014, Cannon allegedly accepted from the undercover agents more than $48,000 in cash, airline tickets, a hotel room, and use of a luxury apartment in exchange for the use of his official position,” the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement Wednesday.
Are you prepared?
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I never *did* trust Shrimp Boy!