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6 California Legislators have Recent Arrest Records
6 California Legislators have Recent Arrest Records
Democrat or Republican makes no difference – - is your state rep a felon?
Thursday, May 10, 2012
6 California Legislators have Recent Arrest Records
<<<<Richard Alarcon of Los Angeles' 7th City Council District (sort of)
It’s been 20 years since California politics witnessed so many lawmakers getting arrested.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was Shrimpscam that got so many legislators into trouble, after federal agents conducted a sting operation to root out influence peddling at the state capitol.
More recently, half a dozen assemblymen and senators have made the news for getting busted for a variety of reasons.
State Senator Roderick Wright, a Democrat from the Los Angeles area, faces eight felony counts, including voter fraud and perjury, for allegedly lying when he said he lived in his Senate district representing Inglewood.
Former state senator and assemblyman and current City Councilman Richard Alarcon, another Democrat from Los Angeles, has been charged with 18 counts for lying about where he lived and voting fraudulently.
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Republican from San Bernardino, pled no contest last month to two misdemeanor charges for attempting to take a loaded handgun onto a commercial airliner.
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