Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow Guilty on All Counts in Racketeering, Murder Trial
Murder and Racketeering Trial Opens for Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow
Motion Denied: Court Drama Continues in 'Shrimp Boy' Case
'Shrimp Boy' Defense: Ed Lee, Other Officials Implicated in FBI Probe
State Sen. Leland Yee Faces New Racketeering, Conspiracy Charges
Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow Pleads Not Guilty
Yee, Chow and Jackson Expected Back in Court Friday
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Senator Yee Corruption Scandal Plays Out in Sacramento
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dragonhead, or chief, of the fraternal organization Chee Kung Tong, faces life in prison and will be sentenced March 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This conviction represents a just and final end to Mr. Chow's long running and deadly criminal career,” San Francisco FBI Special Agent in Charge David Johnson said in a prepared statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office. “The FBI is dedicated to investigating and prosecuting violent criminal enterprises operating in the Bay Area and will continue to work closely with our state and local partners to make our communities and residents safe.”\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"phiu5wpQuH0JFWLbmuyvVsJ2H8Ql7tqT\"]\u003cbr>\nThe FBI's tactics in the several-year investigation of Chow were a key part of the defense's arguments early in the trial. His attorney's accused the FBI and federal prosecutors of misconduct for spending millions to charge a man they say was a reformed criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, that ire extended to the judge and jury in the case. Defense attorney Tony Serra called U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer \"horribly unfair.\" He castigated the jury for choosing to believe a series of criminal informants who were key to the government's case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This conviction was predicated on the testimony of five snitches that no rational human being would believe or extend credibility to,\" Serra said. \"Welcome to the federal system of justice in criminal cases. This is snitch heaven, and we feel disgusted for the case as it progressed and the case ultimately as it culminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra defended his decision to have Chow testify -- an unusual step in a high-stakes criminal case -- but said the court had not given him enough time to prepare his client for his appearance on the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Mintz of the San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29292322/shrimp-boy-trial-chow-expected-testify-today-own\" target=\"_blank\">summarized Chow's December testimony\u003c/a> this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Describing his evolution from street criminal to reformed criminal, Chow, who insists his current racketeering indictment is government-created \"fiction,\" acknowledged that his past was steeped in crime, from gun violence and beating up rivals to running drug and prostitution operations. Chow's first day on the witness stand dealt primarily with his past, but he is expected to address the current charges as the week unfolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow told the jury he took a vow to go clean after years as a feared criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It made me stronger,\" Chow said of spending much of his formative years bouncing from the streets to prison and back to the streets. \"I feel good about myself.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors played recordings in which Chow accepted cash from an undercover FBI agent, payments the government said were made in exchange for carrying out crimes like money laundering. On cross-examination, Chow told William Frentzen, the assistant U.S. attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the case, that he did not \"take\" the cash, but \"received\" it. He testified he believed the agent, identified only by the alias David Jordan, gave him the money to show respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI conducted a four-year-plus undercover investigation of Chow, who had served an earlier sentence for racketeering but insisted \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">he had reformed\u003c/a> after his release from prison in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation led in March 2014 to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">Chow's arrest\u003c/a> on the racketeering charges. A murder charge, involving the 2006 killing of a reputed Chow rival, was added last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal investigation also snared former state Sen. Leland Yee and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson, among others. They were arrested and later \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to racketeering charges involving trading official favors in exchange for campaign contributions, and, in Yee's case, arms trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said Friday's guilty verdict is just one step in a process in which he believes Chow will be exonerated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be ultimately a second stage, and if you watched our client knowing what the verdict was, he was noble in his acceptance of defeat, and he said we will prevail in the second round, which is the appellate level,\" Serra said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's longtime girlfriend, Alicia Lo, took to Twitter after the verdict was announced, saying he was \"strong, positive ... even laughing,\" despite the jury's finding. She also tweeted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/alicia_m_lo/status/685553825604698112\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Defense attorney castigates judge and jury in the case and vows an appeal. Sentencing set for March 23. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1452300418,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":763},"headData":{"title":"Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow Guilty on All Counts in Racketeering, Murder Trial | KQED","description":"Defense attorney castigates judge and jury in the case and vows an appeal. Sentencing set for March 23. 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His attorney's accused the FBI and federal prosecutors of misconduct for spending millions to charge a man they say was a reformed criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, that ire extended to the judge and jury in the case. Defense attorney Tony Serra called U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer \"horribly unfair.\" He castigated the jury for choosing to believe a series of criminal informants who were key to the government's case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This conviction was predicated on the testimony of five snitches that no rational human being would believe or extend credibility to,\" Serra said. \"Welcome to the federal system of justice in criminal cases. This is snitch heaven, and we feel disgusted for the case as it progressed and the case ultimately as it culminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra defended his decision to have Chow testify -- an unusual step in a high-stakes criminal case -- but said the court had not given him enough time to prepare his client for his appearance on the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Mintz of the San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29292322/shrimp-boy-trial-chow-expected-testify-today-own\" target=\"_blank\">summarized Chow's December testimony\u003c/a> this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Describing his evolution from street criminal to reformed criminal, Chow, who insists his current racketeering indictment is government-created \"fiction,\" acknowledged that his past was steeped in crime, from gun violence and beating up rivals to running drug and prostitution operations. Chow's first day on the witness stand dealt primarily with his past, but he is expected to address the current charges as the week unfolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow told the jury he took a vow to go clean after years as a feared criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It made me stronger,\" Chow said of spending much of his formative years bouncing from the streets to prison and back to the streets. \"I feel good about myself.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors played recordings in which Chow accepted cash from an undercover FBI agent, payments the government said were made in exchange for carrying out crimes like money laundering. On cross-examination, Chow told William Frentzen, the assistant U.S. attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the case, that he did not \"take\" the cash, but \"received\" it. He testified he believed the agent, identified only by the alias David Jordan, gave him the money to show respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI conducted a four-year-plus undercover investigation of Chow, who had served an earlier sentence for racketeering but insisted \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">he had reformed\u003c/a> after his release from prison in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation led in March 2014 to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">Chow's arrest\u003c/a> on the racketeering charges. A murder charge, involving the 2006 killing of a reputed Chow rival, was added last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal investigation also snared former state Sen. Leland Yee and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson, among others. They were arrested and later \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to racketeering charges involving trading official favors in exchange for campaign contributions, and, in Yee's case, arms trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said Friday's guilty verdict is just one step in a process in which he believes Chow will be exonerated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be ultimately a second stage, and if you watched our client knowing what the verdict was, he was noble in his acceptance of defeat, and he said we will prevail in the second round, which is the appellate level,\" Serra said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's longtime girlfriend, Alicia Lo, took to Twitter after the verdict was announced, saying he was \"strong, positive ... even laughing,\" despite the jury's finding. She also tweeted:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"685553825604698112"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10826104/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-guilty-on-all-162-counts-in-racketeering-murder-trial","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_6106","news_6058"],"featImg":"news_10753968","label":"news_6944"},"news_10753179":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10753179","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10753179","score":null,"sort":[1447178301000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-trial-begins-in-s-f","title":"Murder and Racketeering Trial Opens for Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow","publishDate":1447178301,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The murder and racketeering trial of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is finally underway. It's a highly anticipated faceoff between federal prosecutors who argue the Chinatown tong leader was a criminal mastermind and defense attorneys who say the government spent millions in an unsuccessful attempt to entrap an ex-con who had gone straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232463808\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening arguments Monday, federal prosecutor Waqar Hasib asked the jury to picture a rainy day in San Francisco's Chinatown -- Feb. 27, 2006 -- when a man donning a ski mask was buzzed into former tong leader Allen Leung's shop at 603 Jackson St. The man shouted \"robbery\" in English, but Leung's offer of money went unanswered. Moments later, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-KILLING-IN-CHINATOWN-Allen-Leung-a-power-in-2500019.php\" target=\"_blank\">Leung was shot\u003c/a>. He bled to death on the floor of his office. Several thousand dollars were left at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity. ... Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.'\u003ccite>Waqar Hasib,\u003cbr>\nAssistant United States attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This was not some random robbery,\" Hasib told the jury. \"This was something much darker, much more sinister. The evidence will show that this was a hit -- a coldblooded gangland-style hit ... ordered by that man over there, Raymond Chow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 162 charges that Chow is facing, he stands accused of soliciting the murders of not only Leung but also a man prosecutors describe as a rival from another tong, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mendocinosheriff.com/press/view.cgi?1236365\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Tat Kong\u003c/a> -- killed in the Mendocino County town of Fort Bragg two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, Hasib said, is about much more than the two murders, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity,\" he said. \"Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, who has done time in the past for racketeering, drug trafficking, arson, armed robbery and attempted murder, insists he is innocent of all charges and plans to testify in his own defense. His lead attorney, Tony Serra, told the jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Chow is a changed man\u003c/a> whom the FBI spent millions trying -- and failing -- to trap in crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence will not show that my client murdered or participated in the murder of anyone, period,\" Serra told the jury. He said the government added the murder charges to its sweeping criminal indictment at the last minute and only after securing the testimony of several cooperating witnesses with lengthy criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these insiders, these cooperators, they jumped on the bandwagon right at the end, in order ultimately that they secure leniency with the sentencing that many of them face,\" Serra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government's investigation has already resulted in several guilty pleas -- including that of former state Sen. Leland Yee, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">in July admitted \u003c/a>committing wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, firearms trafficking and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both defense lawyers and prosecutors say they'll prove their cases using the same secretly recorded statements, mostly collected by an FBI agent posing as a foul-mouthed East Coast Mafia member with business opportunities for members of Chow's Ghee Kung Tong. With the help of another agent who speaks Cantonese and posed as a \"Shrimp Boy\" groupie, agent David Jordan infiltrated the group in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At one point Raymond Chow tells David Jordan, 'I don’t commit crimes myself, but I know lots of people who do. Would you like to meet them?' \" Hasib said. \"Almost immediately after meeting each one of these people -- sometimes within minutes, seconds -- David Jordan is able to conduct criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that point on, Chow's relationship with Jordan followed a predictable pattern, according to the prosecution. Chow would make an introduction -- or approve money laundering, drug trafficking, gunrunning or fencing of stolen property deals -- and Jordan would carry them out with an alleged Chow associate. The defense says the FBI provided almost $500,000 in fake black-market cigarettes alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deals, Jordan would bring Chow an envelope full of cash, and Chow would verbally refuse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will hear that Raymond Chow always stays an arm's length away from the criminal activity, says, 'No, no, no, I don’t want the cash,' \" Hasib said. \"But every time, Raymond Chow takes the envelope and drops it in his pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra argued Chow was living on charity as a respected member of the Chinese community and hoping to soon publish a book about his life. But accepting money, he said, doesn't mean Chow was interested in or even aware of the crimes going on around him.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"lGt0DjgfvJuQJl1RXQDzU0yzg2ZoNGAh\"]\u003cbr>\n\"He gave up that life,\" Serra said. \"But he’s not a policeman. He’s not some kind of minister. He’s not going to go out and try to clean up some of the criminal activity that goes on in Chinatown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra and his team are arguing that the FBI spent millions attempting to entrap an innocent man -- not only by giving cash to Chow and fronting thousands to be laundered but also by wining and dining suspects at fancy restaurants and high-end hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said the FBI spend more than $1 million on those kinds of out-of-pocket expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite you to dislike that,\" he told the jury. \"It should trouble you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the jury was excused for the day, the government questioned Serra's math and said jurors should be allowed to know that much of their expenses were recovered through the illegal cash and property seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer expressed concerns about Serra's argument and said he'd consider letting prosecutors inform the jury about the government's position on the expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first day of the criminal trial ended with two law enforcement witnesses called by the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first San Francisco police officer to arrive at the scene of Allen Leung's killing testified about the scene as prosecutors flashed a photographs of Leung's body -- face-down in a pool of blood -- and played a recording of the 911 call his wife made. Jenny Leung screamed and cried on the tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then FBI agent William Wu testified about Leung's funeral. Formerly assigned to the FBI's Asian organized crime unit, Wu said law enforcement turned out in force for the funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A well-known member of the Chinese tong was murdered,\" he said. \"We wanted to make sure that there was no violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funeral was peaceful. Chow was photographed emerging from the ceremony in a bright white suit, despite dozens of people surrounding him and holding up newspapers and trying to block him from view. That wardrobe choice would inform the name of the FBI's \"Operation White Suit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu testified that before he was killed, Leung had contacted the FBI and was frightened of Chow. His fears, the prosecution argues, came true.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Chinatown tong leader accused of having two rivals killed -- and more than 100 other crimes. Defense says government entrapped an innocent man.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1447287158,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1200},"headData":{"title":"Murder and Racketeering Trial Opens for Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow | KQED","description":"Chinatown tong leader accused of having two rivals killed -- and more than 100 other crimes. Defense says government entrapped an innocent man.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Murder and Racketeering Trial Opens for Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow","datePublished":"2015-11-10T17:58:21.000Z","dateModified":"2015-11-12T00:12:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10753179 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10753179","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-trial-begins-in-s-f/","disqusTitle":"Murder and Racketeering Trial Opens for Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow","path":"/news/10753179/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-trial-begins-in-s-f","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The murder and racketeering trial of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is finally underway. It's a highly anticipated faceoff between federal prosecutors who argue the Chinatown tong leader was a criminal mastermind and defense attorneys who say the government spent millions in an unsuccessful attempt to entrap an ex-con who had gone straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232463808&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232463808'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening arguments Monday, federal prosecutor Waqar Hasib asked the jury to picture a rainy day in San Francisco's Chinatown -- Feb. 27, 2006 -- when a man donning a ski mask was buzzed into former tong leader Allen Leung's shop at 603 Jackson St. The man shouted \"robbery\" in English, but Leung's offer of money went unanswered. Moments later, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-KILLING-IN-CHINATOWN-Allen-Leung-a-power-in-2500019.php\" target=\"_blank\">Leung was shot\u003c/a>. He bled to death on the floor of his office. Several thousand dollars were left at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity. ... Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.'\u003ccite>Waqar Hasib,\u003cbr>\nAssistant United States attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This was not some random robbery,\" Hasib told the jury. \"This was something much darker, much more sinister. The evidence will show that this was a hit -- a coldblooded gangland-style hit ... ordered by that man over there, Raymond Chow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 162 charges that Chow is facing, he stands accused of soliciting the murders of not only Leung but also a man prosecutors describe as a rival from another tong, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mendocinosheriff.com/press/view.cgi?1236365\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Tat Kong\u003c/a> -- killed in the Mendocino County town of Fort Bragg two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, Hasib said, is about much more than the two murders, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity,\" he said. \"Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, who has done time in the past for racketeering, drug trafficking, arson, armed robbery and attempted murder, insists he is innocent of all charges and plans to testify in his own defense. His lead attorney, Tony Serra, told the jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Chow is a changed man\u003c/a> whom the FBI spent millions trying -- and failing -- to trap in crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence will not show that my client murdered or participated in the murder of anyone, period,\" Serra told the jury. He said the government added the murder charges to its sweeping criminal indictment at the last minute and only after securing the testimony of several cooperating witnesses with lengthy criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these insiders, these cooperators, they jumped on the bandwagon right at the end, in order ultimately that they secure leniency with the sentencing that many of them face,\" Serra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government's investigation has already resulted in several guilty pleas -- including that of former state Sen. Leland Yee, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">in July admitted \u003c/a>committing wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, firearms trafficking and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both defense lawyers and prosecutors say they'll prove their cases using the same secretly recorded statements, mostly collected by an FBI agent posing as a foul-mouthed East Coast Mafia member with business opportunities for members of Chow's Ghee Kung Tong. With the help of another agent who speaks Cantonese and posed as a \"Shrimp Boy\" groupie, agent David Jordan infiltrated the group in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At one point Raymond Chow tells David Jordan, 'I don’t commit crimes myself, but I know lots of people who do. Would you like to meet them?' \" Hasib said. \"Almost immediately after meeting each one of these people -- sometimes within minutes, seconds -- David Jordan is able to conduct criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that point on, Chow's relationship with Jordan followed a predictable pattern, according to the prosecution. Chow would make an introduction -- or approve money laundering, drug trafficking, gunrunning or fencing of stolen property deals -- and Jordan would carry them out with an alleged Chow associate. The defense says the FBI provided almost $500,000 in fake black-market cigarettes alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deals, Jordan would bring Chow an envelope full of cash, and Chow would verbally refuse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will hear that Raymond Chow always stays an arm's length away from the criminal activity, says, 'No, no, no, I don’t want the cash,' \" Hasib said. \"But every time, Raymond Chow takes the envelope and drops it in his pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra argued Chow was living on charity as a respected member of the Chinese community and hoping to soon publish a book about his life. But accepting money, he said, doesn't mean Chow was interested in or even aware of the crimes going on around him.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"He gave up that life,\" Serra said. \"But he’s not a policeman. He’s not some kind of minister. He’s not going to go out and try to clean up some of the criminal activity that goes on in Chinatown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra and his team are arguing that the FBI spent millions attempting to entrap an innocent man -- not only by giving cash to Chow and fronting thousands to be laundered but also by wining and dining suspects at fancy restaurants and high-end hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said the FBI spend more than $1 million on those kinds of out-of-pocket expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite you to dislike that,\" he told the jury. \"It should trouble you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the jury was excused for the day, the government questioned Serra's math and said jurors should be allowed to know that much of their expenses were recovered through the illegal cash and property seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer expressed concerns about Serra's argument and said he'd consider letting prosecutors inform the jury about the government's position on the expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first day of the criminal trial ended with two law enforcement witnesses called by the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first San Francisco police officer to arrive at the scene of Allen Leung's killing testified about the scene as prosecutors flashed a photographs of Leung's body -- face-down in a pool of blood -- and played a recording of the 911 call his wife made. Jenny Leung screamed and cried on the tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then FBI agent William Wu testified about Leung's funeral. Formerly assigned to the FBI's Asian organized crime unit, Wu said law enforcement turned out in force for the funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A well-known member of the Chinese tong was murdered,\" he said. \"We wanted to make sure that there was no violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funeral was peaceful. Chow was photographed emerging from the ceremony in a bright white suit, despite dozens of people surrounding him and holding up newspapers and trying to block him from view. That wardrobe choice would inform the name of the FBI's \"Operation White Suit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu testified that before he was killed, Leung had contacted the FBI and was frightened of Chow. His fears, the prosecution argues, came true.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10753179/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-trial-begins-in-s-f","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6106","news_6058","news_17286","news_6107"],"featImg":"news_10753180","label":"news_72"},"news_10658807":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10658807","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10658807","score":null,"sort":[1440722722000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"motion-denied-court-drama-continues-in-shrimp-boy-case","title":"Motion Denied: Court Drama Continues in 'Shrimp Boy' Case","publishDate":1440722722,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday denied a motion by defense attorneys for Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow that sought to determine why federal authorities pursued a multiyear investigation of their client but seemed to turn a blind eye to crimes they allege were committed by prominent San Francisco politicians, including Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys, Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs, asked the court to dismiss charges against Chow on the grounds their client was selectively prosecuted and, alternatively, for Breyer to force federal prosecutors and the FBI to turn over memos that could indicate why Lee \"suddenly vanished\" from the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see no evidence whatsoever of any crime or wrongdoing by the mayor,\" Breyer told Briggs and Serra from the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's hearing followed Chow's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe\" target=\"_blank\">explosive Aug. 4 motion\u003c/a> that included transcripts from FBI phone taps, body-worn wire recordings and other notes that appear to implicate several political players in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection to Lee comes from recorded statements from former Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer and commission staffer Zula Jones. According to FBI evidence cited and attached to the Aug. 4 filing, Jones called an undercover FBI agent on April 17, 2012. She initially told the agent that an individual could not donate more than $500. Then, from the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At this point, JONES realized she was speaking to UCE [undercover employee] 4773, said she called the wrong person back and said “Oh my god, I’m thinking you’re someone from San Jose …. Sorry I had a hectic day today, I really apologize.” She then switched the subject, “Ed knows that you gave the 10,000 … he knows that … he knows that you will give another 10,000. He also knows that we had to break the 10,000 up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In court Thursday, Briggs said Lee himself was also recorded on a tapped phone thanking an undercover FBI agent for the illegal donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agent 4773 actually spoke to Ed Lee on the phone in the context of an illegal donation,\" Briggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer pressed Briggs on what the \"context of an illegal donation\" means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A bribe,\" Briggs said. But when Breyer pressed further, Briggs couldn't produce evidence directly linking Lee to criminal wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the transcript of that alleged conversation was not included in Chow's original motion. Breyer has since ruled that all future references to \"wiretap applications and orders, and the documents incorporated therein, shall be filed under seal and may be disclosed only upon a finding of good cause by this Court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Thursday that the case includes some 100,000 pages of transcripts from FBI wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the record that demonstrates that the mayor was involved in the contributions, or splitting it up, or that there was any impermissible quid pro quo,\" Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs said he inadvertently omitted the transcript of Lee's alleged taped conversation with the agent from the original motion, but he described it to reporters after Thursday's hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Jones] said, here, somebody wants to talk to you, and the FBI says it was Ed Lee got on the phone, said thank you so much for your support. I'm looking forward to working with you or something to that effect,\" Briggs said. \"Zula arranged a meeting a couple weeks later. Ed Lee sat down at that meeting with three undercover agents from the FBI and very carefully talked about potentially favorable contracts in the city ... and then he kind of disappears from the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for Lee's re-election campaign did respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are you kidding me???\" Ed Lee for Mayor 2015 Communications Director P.J. Johnston wrote in an emailed response. \"The judge vindicated the Mayor, and you're pursuing more outrageous accusations by Shrimp Boy ... Shrimp Boy’s legal strategy was to smear as many other people as he could. The strategy failed. It’s incumbent upon the media to pay at least half as much attention to the exoneration as they paid to the scurrilous accusations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Ethics Commission, district attorney and city attorney have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/da-city-attorney-investigating-illegal-campaign-contributions-to-mayor-lee/\" target=\"_blank\">launched investigations\u003c/a> into the alleged improper campaign donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense team said it didn't expect the case to be dismissed but had hoped the court would force the government to reveal how the decision was made to stop investigating Lee. With that discovery, the lawyers argued, they could likely make a better case that Chow was unfairly targeted while federal prosecutors turned a blind eye to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're in a Catch-22 unless the court intervenes,\" Serra told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Badger argued the legal burden is on the defense to provide evidence of a selective prosecution, which they failed to do in this case. She said in court that the issue goes to the heart of government separation of powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The executive makes the decision who and what to prosecute, whether there is sufficient evidence,\" she said. \"The courts require a rigorous standard in order to allow the judicial branch to start scrutinizing prosecutorial discretion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer suggested to the defense that Lee and others may not have been prosecuted because the evidence wasn't there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, too big to fall,\" Serra responded. \"Too big to fall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing there, Mr. Serra,\" Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said allegations brought up in the selective prosecution motion will be central to the defense's case when Chow's jury trial begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could have got other political people easy as pie,\" Serra said after court. \"They chose not to, and this motion here, we wanted to find out really, why didn't you? Why didn't you go to the grand jury on the mayor? Why didn't you further the investigation? ... You're going to find that they didn't want to touch this very strong political core in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted to get our client Shrimp Boy. They were blind to everything else. So that's going to help us with a jury.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Defense asserts Mayor Ed Lee knew about illegal campaign donations, but judge says there's no evidence.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1440723432,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1034},"headData":{"title":"Motion Denied: Court Drama Continues in 'Shrimp Boy' Case | KQED","description":"Defense asserts Mayor Ed Lee knew about illegal campaign donations, but judge says there's no evidence.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Motion Denied: Court Drama Continues in 'Shrimp Boy' Case","datePublished":"2015-08-28T00:45:22.000Z","dateModified":"2015-08-28T00:57:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10658807 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10658807","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/27/motion-denied-court-drama-continues-in-shrimp-boy-case/","disqusTitle":"Motion Denied: Court Drama Continues in 'Shrimp Boy' Case","path":"/news/10658807/motion-denied-court-drama-continues-in-shrimp-boy-case","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday denied a motion by defense attorneys for Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow that sought to determine why federal authorities pursued a multiyear investigation of their client but seemed to turn a blind eye to crimes they allege were committed by prominent San Francisco politicians, including Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys, Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs, asked the court to dismiss charges against Chow on the grounds their client was selectively prosecuted and, alternatively, for Breyer to force federal prosecutors and the FBI to turn over memos that could indicate why Lee \"suddenly vanished\" from the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see no evidence whatsoever of any crime or wrongdoing by the mayor,\" Breyer told Briggs and Serra from the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's hearing followed Chow's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe\" target=\"_blank\">explosive Aug. 4 motion\u003c/a> that included transcripts from FBI phone taps, body-worn wire recordings and other notes that appear to implicate several political players in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection to Lee comes from recorded statements from former Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer and commission staffer Zula Jones. According to FBI evidence cited and attached to the Aug. 4 filing, Jones called an undercover FBI agent on April 17, 2012. She initially told the agent that an individual could not donate more than $500. Then, from the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At this point, JONES realized she was speaking to UCE [undercover employee] 4773, said she called the wrong person back and said “Oh my god, I’m thinking you’re someone from San Jose …. Sorry I had a hectic day today, I really apologize.” She then switched the subject, “Ed knows that you gave the 10,000 … he knows that … he knows that you will give another 10,000. He also knows that we had to break the 10,000 up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In court Thursday, Briggs said Lee himself was also recorded on a tapped phone thanking an undercover FBI agent for the illegal donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agent 4773 actually spoke to Ed Lee on the phone in the context of an illegal donation,\" Briggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer pressed Briggs on what the \"context of an illegal donation\" means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A bribe,\" Briggs said. But when Breyer pressed further, Briggs couldn't produce evidence directly linking Lee to criminal wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the transcript of that alleged conversation was not included in Chow's original motion. Breyer has since ruled that all future references to \"wiretap applications and orders, and the documents incorporated therein, shall be filed under seal and may be disclosed only upon a finding of good cause by this Court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Thursday that the case includes some 100,000 pages of transcripts from FBI wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the record that demonstrates that the mayor was involved in the contributions, or splitting it up, or that there was any impermissible quid pro quo,\" Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs said he inadvertently omitted the transcript of Lee's alleged taped conversation with the agent from the original motion, but he described it to reporters after Thursday's hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Jones] said, here, somebody wants to talk to you, and the FBI says it was Ed Lee got on the phone, said thank you so much for your support. I'm looking forward to working with you or something to that effect,\" Briggs said. \"Zula arranged a meeting a couple weeks later. Ed Lee sat down at that meeting with three undercover agents from the FBI and very carefully talked about potentially favorable contracts in the city ... and then he kind of disappears from the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for Lee's re-election campaign did respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are you kidding me???\" Ed Lee for Mayor 2015 Communications Director P.J. Johnston wrote in an emailed response. \"The judge vindicated the Mayor, and you're pursuing more outrageous accusations by Shrimp Boy ... Shrimp Boy’s legal strategy was to smear as many other people as he could. The strategy failed. It’s incumbent upon the media to pay at least half as much attention to the exoneration as they paid to the scurrilous accusations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Ethics Commission, district attorney and city attorney have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/da-city-attorney-investigating-illegal-campaign-contributions-to-mayor-lee/\" target=\"_blank\">launched investigations\u003c/a> into the alleged improper campaign donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense team said it didn't expect the case to be dismissed but had hoped the court would force the government to reveal how the decision was made to stop investigating Lee. With that discovery, the lawyers argued, they could likely make a better case that Chow was unfairly targeted while federal prosecutors turned a blind eye to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're in a Catch-22 unless the court intervenes,\" Serra told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Badger argued the legal burden is on the defense to provide evidence of a selective prosecution, which they failed to do in this case. She said in court that the issue goes to the heart of government separation of powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The executive makes the decision who and what to prosecute, whether there is sufficient evidence,\" she said. \"The courts require a rigorous standard in order to allow the judicial branch to start scrutinizing prosecutorial discretion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer suggested to the defense that Lee and others may not have been prosecuted because the evidence wasn't there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, too big to fall,\" Serra responded. \"Too big to fall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing there, Mr. Serra,\" Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said allegations brought up in the selective prosecution motion will be central to the defense's case when Chow's jury trial begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could have got other political people easy as pie,\" Serra said after court. \"They chose not to, and this motion here, we wanted to find out really, why didn't you? Why didn't you go to the grand jury on the mayor? Why didn't you further the investigation? ... You're going to find that they didn't want to touch this very strong political core in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted to get our client Shrimp Boy. They were blind to everything else. So that's going to help us with a jury.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10658807/motion-denied-court-drama-continues-in-shrimp-boy-case","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6115","news_543","news_5690","news_6106","news_6058"],"featImg":"news_10658865","label":"news_6944"},"news_10629986":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10629986","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10629986","score":null,"sort":[1438735562000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe","title":"'Shrimp Boy' Defense: Ed Lee, Other Officials Implicated in FBI Probe","publishDate":1438735562,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A new motion by Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow's defense team in an ongoing federal racketeering and corruption case alleges the FBI's four-year investigation into the San Francisco Chinatown leader implicated several sitting city politicians and other power players who were never indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/mayor-city-officials-others-accused-of-wrongdoing-according-to-new-details-from-fbi-probe-into-shrimp-boy/\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner first reported\u003c/a> on the sensational motion to dismiss federal charges against Chow for selective prosecution. In essence, the motion argues that federal prosecutors, including Northern California U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, chose to prosecute some officials netted in the FBI probe, while looking the other way concerning others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing, brimming with colorful language, alleges the government's investigation snagged \"at least a dozen bottom feeding political types.\" Read the \u003ca href=\"#filing\">entire motion and exhibits below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of these 'public servants' were allowed to progress through the November 2014 election process unscathed because of a protective order issued in this case,\" the motion says. \"Instead the public was allowed to stew in the indicted parties alleged culpability after a blast of media headlines, while people who actually were in a position to do damage while betraying the public trust remained nameless -- all in the context of what was sold as a public corruption and organized crime investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent local name accused in the motion: Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Specifically, the FBI alleged in discovery that Ed Lee took substantial bribes in exchange for favors and that Human Rights Commissioners, Nazly Mohajer and Zula Jones, hustled in these bribes for the Mayor,\" the filing says. \"The United States Attorney asked for a RICO charge on Keith Jackson and Leland Yee for similar conduct. Lee, Mohajer, and Jones remain unindicted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation cites exhibits turned over to Chow's defense team by federal prosecutors during the pretrial discovery process, but the exhibits fall short of catching Lee negotiating any bribes, and instead appear to implicate Mohajer and Jones in campaign finance swindling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, one of the exhibits notes a recorded phone call between \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">convicted\u003c/a> former political consultant Keith Jackson and Mohajer: \"I believe this conversation related to Mohajer's and Jackson's previous fundraising for mayor Ed lee during the Mayoral campaign wherein they expected official action in return, but did not receive it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>P.J. Johnston, Lee's re-election campaign communications director, responded by email to a KQED inquiry to the mayor's office: \"While it appears others may have tried to engage or ensnare Mayor Lee and any number of other people in their own wrongdoing, there's absolutely nothing in today's filing by Raymond Chow's attorneys that suggests that Mayor Lee himself or his 2011 campaign did anything wrong or inappropriate. As we have stated previously, Mayor Lee's campaign is committed to following the letter and spirit of all campaign finance laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence also includes a description of meetings between Lee and an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman interested in developing senior assisted-living facilities in the city. The agent was introduced to Lee as someone who raised $10,000 to retire the mayor's campaign debt, and then they discussed \"bringing private business interest and development into San Francisco.\" However, the defense did not produce evidence that any deal was ever struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Examiner lays out some of what others allegedly said about Lee's politics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Jones was reported by the FBI to have said that former mayor Willie Brown taught Ed Lee to do business, according to the filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got to pay to play here. We got it. We know this. We are the best at this game, uh, better than New York. We do it a little more sophisticated that New Yorkers. We do it without the mafia,” the filing reports Jones to have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohajer allegedly “explained the process by which she launders Ed Lee’s campaign money,” said the filing, which went on to say that Lee took $20,000 in campaign contributions, gifts and trips in his first four months in office. The filing alleges that Jones and Mohajer said Lee “knew he was taking the money illegally.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The motion includes another allegation that San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency employee Sululagi Palega sold a gun to an undercover FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During a meeting at Waterbar Restaurant on the Embarcadero, Palega agreed to provide numerous weapons to the undercover agent so that the agent could protected his illegal narcotics business. Palega sold at least one firearm to the man who the FBI claims was allegedly an Italian Mafioso. Prior to the sale taking place, Palega used a City of San Francisco car to come and go from a meeting at Town Hall with UCE [undercover employee] 4599 at which Palega provided an update on his ability to procure assault rifles, hand grenades, and ammunition. He handed the UCE a Sees Candy box with a gun in it and said “Enjoy the candy.” He remains unindicted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys also note several prominent San Francisco African-American leaders, including the head of the San Francisco NAACP and the organization's second in command, and two sitting supervisors, all allegedly \"implicated in dramatic pay to play schemes,\" the motion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're dealing with hearsay,\" the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler. \"I have nothing to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen's office did not respond to KQED's requests for comment. Board of Supervisors President London Breed said in a statement that the accusations against her and others named in the motion are baseless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing I’ve learned from this sad episode is that you should be very skeptical of what you read in the news, especially when it comes from an accused felon looking for anyone but himself to blame,\" Breed said. \"I'm not angry. It's just very sad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=273554556 key=key-lKyc41jOZCZlN8UTQSHg mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peter Jon Shuler and Tara Siler of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Attorneys say case is tainted by 'selective prosecution.' Local leaders deny allegations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1438735562,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1012},"headData":{"title":"'Shrimp Boy' Defense: Ed Lee, Other Officials Implicated in FBI Probe | KQED","description":"Attorneys say case is tainted by 'selective prosecution.' Local leaders deny allegations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Shrimp Boy' Defense: Ed Lee, Other Officials Implicated in FBI Probe","datePublished":"2015-08-05T00:46:02.000Z","dateModified":"2015-08-05T00:46:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10629986 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10629986","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe/","disqusTitle":"'Shrimp Boy' Defense: Ed Lee, Other Officials Implicated in FBI Probe","path":"/news/10629986/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new motion by Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow's defense team in an ongoing federal racketeering and corruption case alleges the FBI's four-year investigation into the San Francisco Chinatown leader implicated several sitting city politicians and other power players who were never indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/mayor-city-officials-others-accused-of-wrongdoing-according-to-new-details-from-fbi-probe-into-shrimp-boy/\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner first reported\u003c/a> on the sensational motion to dismiss federal charges against Chow for selective prosecution. In essence, the motion argues that federal prosecutors, including Northern California U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, chose to prosecute some officials netted in the FBI probe, while looking the other way concerning others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing, brimming with colorful language, alleges the government's investigation snagged \"at least a dozen bottom feeding political types.\" Read the \u003ca href=\"#filing\">entire motion and exhibits below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of these 'public servants' were allowed to progress through the November 2014 election process unscathed because of a protective order issued in this case,\" the motion says. \"Instead the public was allowed to stew in the indicted parties alleged culpability after a blast of media headlines, while people who actually were in a position to do damage while betraying the public trust remained nameless -- all in the context of what was sold as a public corruption and organized crime investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent local name accused in the motion: Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Specifically, the FBI alleged in discovery that Ed Lee took substantial bribes in exchange for favors and that Human Rights Commissioners, Nazly Mohajer and Zula Jones, hustled in these bribes for the Mayor,\" the filing says. \"The United States Attorney asked for a RICO charge on Keith Jackson and Leland Yee for similar conduct. Lee, Mohajer, and Jones remain unindicted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation cites exhibits turned over to Chow's defense team by federal prosecutors during the pretrial discovery process, but the exhibits fall short of catching Lee negotiating any bribes, and instead appear to implicate Mohajer and Jones in campaign finance swindling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, one of the exhibits notes a recorded phone call between \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">convicted\u003c/a> former political consultant Keith Jackson and Mohajer: \"I believe this conversation related to Mohajer's and Jackson's previous fundraising for mayor Ed lee during the Mayoral campaign wherein they expected official action in return, but did not receive it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>P.J. Johnston, Lee's re-election campaign communications director, responded by email to a KQED inquiry to the mayor's office: \"While it appears others may have tried to engage or ensnare Mayor Lee and any number of other people in their own wrongdoing, there's absolutely nothing in today's filing by Raymond Chow's attorneys that suggests that Mayor Lee himself or his 2011 campaign did anything wrong or inappropriate. As we have stated previously, Mayor Lee's campaign is committed to following the letter and spirit of all campaign finance laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence also includes a description of meetings between Lee and an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman interested in developing senior assisted-living facilities in the city. The agent was introduced to Lee as someone who raised $10,000 to retire the mayor's campaign debt, and then they discussed \"bringing private business interest and development into San Francisco.\" However, the defense did not produce evidence that any deal was ever struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Examiner lays out some of what others allegedly said about Lee's politics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Jones was reported by the FBI to have said that former mayor Willie Brown taught Ed Lee to do business, according to the filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got to pay to play here. We got it. We know this. We are the best at this game, uh, better than New York. We do it a little more sophisticated that New Yorkers. We do it without the mafia,” the filing reports Jones to have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohajer allegedly “explained the process by which she launders Ed Lee’s campaign money,” said the filing, which went on to say that Lee took $20,000 in campaign contributions, gifts and trips in his first four months in office. The filing alleges that Jones and Mohajer said Lee “knew he was taking the money illegally.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The motion includes another allegation that San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency employee Sululagi Palega sold a gun to an undercover FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During a meeting at Waterbar Restaurant on the Embarcadero, Palega agreed to provide numerous weapons to the undercover agent so that the agent could protected his illegal narcotics business. Palega sold at least one firearm to the man who the FBI claims was allegedly an Italian Mafioso. Prior to the sale taking place, Palega used a City of San Francisco car to come and go from a meeting at Town Hall with UCE [undercover employee] 4599 at which Palega provided an update on his ability to procure assault rifles, hand grenades, and ammunition. He handed the UCE a Sees Candy box with a gun in it and said “Enjoy the candy.” He remains unindicted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys also note several prominent San Francisco African-American leaders, including the head of the San Francisco NAACP and the organization's second in command, and two sitting supervisors, all allegedly \"implicated in dramatic pay to play schemes,\" the motion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're dealing with hearsay,\" the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler. \"I have nothing to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen's office did not respond to KQED's requests for comment. Board of Supervisors President London Breed said in a statement that the accusations against her and others named in the motion are baseless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing I’ve learned from this sad episode is that you should be very skeptical of what you read in the news, especially when it comes from an accused felon looking for anyone but himself to blame,\" Breed said. \"I'm not angry. It's just very sad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/273554556/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-lKyc41jOZCZlN8UTQSHg\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/273554556\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_273554556\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/273554556\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peter Jon Shuler and Tara Siler of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10629986/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17631","news_543","news_6931","news_2819","news_6106","news_6058"],"featImg":"news_10630311","label":"news_6944"},"news_143007":{"type":"posts","id":"news_143007","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"143007","score":null,"sort":[1406340033000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-sen-leland-yee-faces-new-racketeering-conspiracy-charges","title":"State Sen. Leland Yee Faces New Racketeering, Conspiracy Charges","publishDate":1406340033,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-e1396641660590.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130744\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury in San Francisco has issued a revised indictment against state Sen. Leland Yee, who was first charged in March with corruption and arms-trafficking. Among the new allegations: Yee and an accomplice attempted to extort money from an unnamed National Football League team owner in exchange for a vote on pending legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment (\u003ca href=\"#yeeindictment\">embedded below\u003c/a>) recasts the case against the veteran legislator as a conspiracy in which he and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson allegedly used the senator's political committees as a racketeering operation that engaged in bribery, extortion and money-laundering. The document refers to the alleged Yee-Jackson operation as \"The Campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">the federal charges announced March 26\u003c/a>, the day Yee was arrested in connection with an FBI investigation targeting reputed Chinatown gang leader Raymond Chow. Yee pleaded not guilty to the charges, which accused him of trading favors for donations to his 2011 campaign for mayor of San Francisco and 2014 campaign for California and also alleged he had agreed to facilitate arms purchases by an undercover FBI employee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new charges also allege that Yee and Jackson conspired to extract a payment from the owner of \"NFL Team A\" in exchange for supporting \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1309\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1309, a worker's compensation bill\u003c/a> that would benefit pro sports franchises. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment says that Yee and Jackson conspired to extort a payment after an undercover FBI employee identifed as \"UCE 4180\" told them he knew the owner of the unidentified Team A. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a meeting with the undercover employee, the indictment says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee explained that the owners of professional football had an interest in AB 1309, it was in the financial interest of AB 1309 to pass, and Yee held a key position on the Senate Committee that would considering AB 1309 because Yee controlled two votes on the committee. Yee also stated that the players on professional football teams opposed AB 1309. Yee told UCE 4180 that UCE 4180 should convey this information to the owner of NFL Team A and the owner of NFL Team A should contact Yee with an offer to help Yee. When UCE 4180 asked how much Yee's vote would cost, Yee responded, \"Oh no ... we gotta drag it out, man. We gotta juice this thing.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Yee and Jackson privately discussed approaching other teams and players' representative to see who would pay the most for Yee's vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also says that When UCE 4180 told Jackson that the NFL owner was willing to pay $60,000 for Yee's support for AB 1309, Jackson contacted Yee, then texted the FBI employee, \"Hey [UCE 4180], where [sic] all good on our end ... kj.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says UCE 4180 did not pay any money to Jackson or Yee in connection with the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nfl-claims-20140201-dto-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">which eventually passed\u003c/a>. Yee voted for the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised charges also detail an alleged Yee-Jackson conspiracy involving \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=e1cbdf51052fc8aa982b1af21275?bill_id=201320140SB309\" target=\"_blank\">SB 309, a bill that would extend the life of the California State Athletic Commission\u003c/a>, which has jurisdiction over professional and amateur boxing, kickboxing and other forms of full contact martial arts competitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says Yee and Jackson worked to persuade two supporters of the bill to make donations to the state senator in exchange for his yes vote on the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes a phone call in which Yee and Jackson discussed the alleged scheme:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee told Jackson that he spoke to an individual (hereafter \"Indivual A\") who had an interest in extending the existence of the CSAC and \"did a number\" on that person. Yee said he told Individual A that Yee intended to shut down the CSAC, but Individual A should hire Jackson to lobby Yee to vote to extend the CSAC. Jackson subsquently spoke to Individual A, who said he was fearful that Yee was going to vote against extending the life of the CSAC. Jackson told Individual A that he was willing to help, but would have to be paid. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment does not indicate whether Individual A or a second athletic commission supporter, Individual B, actually paid Yee or Jackson for the senators vote. Like AB 1309, SB 309 passed, again with Yee voting yes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a call to Yee's attorney for comment on the additional charge was not immediately returned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"yeeindictment\">\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/235123442/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_40186\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Revised indictment alleges veteran legislator plotted to shake down an NFL team owner. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1406340033,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":743},"headData":{"title":"State Sen. 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Leland Yee Faces New Racketeering, Conspiracy Charges","customPermalink":"2014/07/25/new-federal-charges-against-state-senator-leland-yee/","path":"/news/143007/state-sen-leland-yee-faces-new-racketeering-conspiracy-charges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-e1396641660590.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130744\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury in San Francisco has issued a revised indictment against state Sen. Leland Yee, who was first charged in March with corruption and arms-trafficking. Among the new allegations: Yee and an accomplice attempted to extort money from an unnamed National Football League team owner in exchange for a vote on pending legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment (\u003ca href=\"#yeeindictment\">embedded below\u003c/a>) recasts the case against the veteran legislator as a conspiracy in which he and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson allegedly used the senator's political committees as a racketeering operation that engaged in bribery, extortion and money-laundering. The document refers to the alleged Yee-Jackson operation as \"The Campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">the federal charges announced March 26\u003c/a>, the day Yee was arrested in connection with an FBI investigation targeting reputed Chinatown gang leader Raymond Chow. Yee pleaded not guilty to the charges, which accused him of trading favors for donations to his 2011 campaign for mayor of San Francisco and 2014 campaign for California and also alleged he had agreed to facilitate arms purchases by an undercover FBI employee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new charges also allege that Yee and Jackson conspired to extract a payment from the owner of \"NFL Team A\" in exchange for supporting \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1309\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1309, a worker's compensation bill\u003c/a> that would benefit pro sports franchises. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment says that Yee and Jackson conspired to extort a payment after an undercover FBI employee identifed as \"UCE 4180\" told them he knew the owner of the unidentified Team A. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a meeting with the undercover employee, the indictment says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee explained that the owners of professional football had an interest in AB 1309, it was in the financial interest of AB 1309 to pass, and Yee held a key position on the Senate Committee that would considering AB 1309 because Yee controlled two votes on the committee. Yee also stated that the players on professional football teams opposed AB 1309. Yee told UCE 4180 that UCE 4180 should convey this information to the owner of NFL Team A and the owner of NFL Team A should contact Yee with an offer to help Yee. When UCE 4180 asked how much Yee's vote would cost, Yee responded, \"Oh no ... we gotta drag it out, man. We gotta juice this thing.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Yee and Jackson privately discussed approaching other teams and players' representative to see who would pay the most for Yee's vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also says that When UCE 4180 told Jackson that the NFL owner was willing to pay $60,000 for Yee's support for AB 1309, Jackson contacted Yee, then texted the FBI employee, \"Hey [UCE 4180], where [sic] all good on our end ... kj.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says UCE 4180 did not pay any money to Jackson or Yee in connection with the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nfl-claims-20140201-dto-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">which eventually passed\u003c/a>. Yee voted for the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised charges also detail an alleged Yee-Jackson conspiracy involving \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=e1cbdf51052fc8aa982b1af21275?bill_id=201320140SB309\" target=\"_blank\">SB 309, a bill that would extend the life of the California State Athletic Commission\u003c/a>, which has jurisdiction over professional and amateur boxing, kickboxing and other forms of full contact martial arts competitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says Yee and Jackson worked to persuade two supporters of the bill to make donations to the state senator in exchange for his yes vote on the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes a phone call in which Yee and Jackson discussed the alleged scheme:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee told Jackson that he spoke to an individual (hereafter \"Indivual A\") who had an interest in extending the existence of the CSAC and \"did a number\" on that person. Yee said he told Individual A that Yee intended to shut down the CSAC, but Individual A should hire Jackson to lobby Yee to vote to extend the CSAC. Jackson subsquently spoke to Individual A, who said he was fearful that Yee was going to vote against extending the life of the CSAC. Jackson told Individual A that he was willing to help, but would have to be paid. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment does not indicate whether Individual A or a second athletic commission supporter, Individual B, actually paid Yee or Jackson for the senators vote. Like AB 1309, SB 309 passed, again with Yee voting yes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a call to Yee's attorney for comment on the additional charge was not immediately returned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"yeeindictment\">\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/235123442/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_40186\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/143007/state-sen-leland-yee-faces-new-racketeering-conspiracy-charges","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_425","news_139","news_6106"],"featImg":"news_130744","label":"news_6944"},"news_132763":{"type":"posts","id":"news_132763","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"132763","score":null,"sort":[1397601160000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-pleads-not-guilty","title":"Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow Pleads Not Guilty","publishDate":1397601160,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 249px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/RaymondChowPleads/rs9587_san-francisco-chinato_san-13-2-sfi/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132779\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-132779 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"In this photo taken Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the "Dragon Head" of the Ghee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. Investigators say Chow is the leader and the dragonhead of one of the most powerful Asian gangs in North America. Chow's gang is said to have lured state Sen. Leland Yee into its clutches through money and campaign contributions in exchange for legislative help, as Yee sought to build his campaign coffers to run for California secretary of state. Born in Hong Kong in 1960, Chow came to the United States at 16 and was reportedly nicknamed "Shrimp Boy" by his grandmother, in part due to his small stature. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\" width=\"249\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the \"Dragon Head\" of the Ghee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the leader of the Chinatown-based Chee Kung Tong organization, and four other defendants pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to charges in a wide-ranging grand jury indictment filed earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and the others arraigned today were among 29 people named in the April 3 indictment, which also accuses suspended state Sen. Leland Yee of public corruption and conspiring in an alleged international arms deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges against Chow and the three other men and one woman who pleaded not guilty before U.S. Magistrate Nandor Vadas today are not directly related to the charges against Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, 54, of San Francisco, who was previously convicted of gun charges and racketeering, is accused of money laundering, conspiring to traffic in contraband cigarettes, and conspiring to transport the stolen cigarettes across state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was arrested March 27 on an earlier criminal complaint and has been held in custody since then. He previously appeared in court several times but delayed entering a plea until today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow is the leader or \"dragonhead\" of the Chee Kung Tong, described by prosecutors as a civic organization that allegedly has a criminal faction. An FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaint alleged that Chow was in charge of the criminal faction and approved its members' activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's lawyers, led by veteran defense attorney Tony Serra, contend the group is not a criminal organization but rather \"a beautiful group of people who bonded together to do beautiful things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They maintain Chow has reformed since being released from prison a decade ago and is now \"an exemplary human being\" who worked on charitable causes for black and Chinese youth in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and most of the other defendants are due to return to the court of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday for a hearing on a protective order that will set guidelines for prosecutors' release of evidence, including recordings made by undercover FBI agents, to defense attorneys. A trial date has not been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pleading not guilty today were Brandon Jackson, 28, of San Francisco, and sports agent Marlon Sullivan, 29, of Oakland, who were arrested on March 27 in Connecticut and New Jersey and made their first appearance in federal court in San Francisco today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Sullivan are accused of joining Jackson's father, former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a fictitious victim for $25,000. The murder was allegedly requested by an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a Mafia member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Jacksons and Sullivan are also accused of selling guns and ballistic vests to the undercover agent, who said he needed them to protect a Mendocino County marijuana-growing operation, according to the criminal complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Jacksons and Sullivan are also charged with conspiring to sell cocaine, which they allegedly requested from the undercover agent, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The others arraigned today are Leslie Yun, 42, and her husband, James Pau, 55, of Oakland, both described in the complaint as officers of the Chee Kung Tong. They were arrested in New York state on March 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yun and Pau pleaded not guilty to charges of laundering money from purportedly illegal activities for the undercover agent and conspiring to transport stolen cigarettes across state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Jackson, Sullivan, Yun and Pau are all being held in custody for the time being, but will have hearings before a magistrate Friday and Monday to determine whether they can be freed on bail while awaiting trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors have told Breyer that they expect to obtain a revised indictment within three months that might include charges of racketeering for running a continuing criminal enterprise. They have not said which defendants might be accused of the potential new charge.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Former Chinatown gang leader is accused of money laundering, charges tied to contraband cigarettes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1397601160,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":680},"headData":{"title":"Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow Pleads Not Guilty | KQED","description":"Former Chinatown gang leader is accused of money laundering, charges tied to contraband cigarettes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow Pleads Not Guilty","datePublished":"2014-04-15T22:32:40.000Z","dateModified":"2014-04-15T22:32:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"132763 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=132763","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/15/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-pleads-not-guilty/","disqusTitle":"Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow Pleads Not Guilty","customPermalink":"RaymondChowPleads/","path":"/news/132763/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-pleads-not-guilty","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 249px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/RaymondChowPleads/rs9587_san-francisco-chinato_san-13-2-sfi/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132779\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-132779 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"In this photo taken Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the "Dragon Head" of the Ghee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. Investigators say Chow is the leader and the dragonhead of one of the most powerful Asian gangs in North America. Chow's gang is said to have lured state Sen. Leland Yee into its clutches through money and campaign contributions in exchange for legislative help, as Yee sought to build his campaign coffers to run for California secretary of state. Born in Hong Kong in 1960, Chow came to the United States at 16 and was reportedly nicknamed "Shrimp Boy" by his grandmother, in part due to his small stature. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\" width=\"249\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the \"Dragon Head\" of the Ghee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the leader of the Chinatown-based Chee Kung Tong organization, and four other defendants pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to charges in a wide-ranging grand jury indictment filed earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and the others arraigned today were among 29 people named in the April 3 indictment, which also accuses suspended state Sen. Leland Yee of public corruption and conspiring in an alleged international arms deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges against Chow and the three other men and one woman who pleaded not guilty before U.S. Magistrate Nandor Vadas today are not directly related to the charges against Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, 54, of San Francisco, who was previously convicted of gun charges and racketeering, is accused of money laundering, conspiring to traffic in contraband cigarettes, and conspiring to transport the stolen cigarettes across state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was arrested March 27 on an earlier criminal complaint and has been held in custody since then. He previously appeared in court several times but delayed entering a plea until today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow is the leader or \"dragonhead\" of the Chee Kung Tong, described by prosecutors as a civic organization that allegedly has a criminal faction. An FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaint alleged that Chow was in charge of the criminal faction and approved its members' activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's lawyers, led by veteran defense attorney Tony Serra, contend the group is not a criminal organization but rather \"a beautiful group of people who bonded together to do beautiful things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They maintain Chow has reformed since being released from prison a decade ago and is now \"an exemplary human being\" who worked on charitable causes for black and Chinese youth in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and most of the other defendants are due to return to the court of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday for a hearing on a protective order that will set guidelines for prosecutors' release of evidence, including recordings made by undercover FBI agents, to defense attorneys. A trial date has not been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pleading not guilty today were Brandon Jackson, 28, of San Francisco, and sports agent Marlon Sullivan, 29, of Oakland, who were arrested on March 27 in Connecticut and New Jersey and made their first appearance in federal court in San Francisco today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Sullivan are accused of joining Jackson's father, former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a fictitious victim for $25,000. The murder was allegedly requested by an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a Mafia member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Jacksons and Sullivan are also accused of selling guns and ballistic vests to the undercover agent, who said he needed them to protect a Mendocino County marijuana-growing operation, according to the criminal complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Jacksons and Sullivan are also charged with conspiring to sell cocaine, which they allegedly requested from the undercover agent, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The others arraigned today are Leslie Yun, 42, and her husband, James Pau, 55, of Oakland, both described in the complaint as officers of the Chee Kung Tong. They were arrested in New York state on March 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yun and Pau pleaded not guilty to charges of laundering money from purportedly illegal activities for the undercover agent and conspiring to transport stolen cigarettes across state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Jackson, Sullivan, Yun and Pau are all being held in custody for the time being, but will have hearings before a magistrate Friday and Monday to determine whether they can be freed on bail while awaiting trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors have told Breyer that they expect to obtain a revised indictment within three months that might include charges of racketeering for running a continuing criminal enterprise. They have not said which defendants might be accused of the potential new charge.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/132763/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-pleads-not-guilty","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_152","news_139","news_6106"],"featImg":"news_132783","label":"news_6944"},"news_132281":{"type":"posts","id":"news_132281","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"132281","score":null,"sort":[1397226635000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"yee-chow-and-jackson-expected-back-in-court-friday","title":"Yee, Chow and Jackson Expected Back in Court Friday","publishDate":1397226635,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Suspended state Sen. Leland Yee is due back in court Friday, along with most of the other 28 co-defendants who have been caught up in the sprawling political corruption case that includes charges of gun trafficking, murder for hire, corruption and fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complicated, multi-part indictment is still a long way from trial. But that hasn’t stopped the speculation about possible defenses for the three lead defendants— Yee, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow and Keith Jackson — all expected back in court Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132332\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 332px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/481741233.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-132332 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/481741233-640x462.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Leland Yee gets into an awaiting car as he leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building after a court appearance on March 31, 2014 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).\" width=\"332\" height=\"239\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Leland Yee gets into an awaiting car as he leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building after a court appearance on March 31, 2014 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). \u003ccite>( (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>James Brosnahan, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/131063/keith-jackson-james-brosnahan-leland-yee-scandal\" target=\"_blank\"> who is representing political consultant Keith Jackson\u003c/a>, implied that a lack of physical evidence will be part of his defense against gun-trafficking charges. “The guns that are referred to, from the Philippines, do not exist. They are nowhere to be found,” Brosnahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rory Little, professor of law at UC Hastings, cautions against this defense. “We have in our society made the decision to have crimes, like conspiracy, like fraud, like bribery, that do not require any physical evidence,” Little said. “You don’t need guns to prove a conspiracy to import guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of political corruption charges facing Yee, arguing that the legal definition of bribery has not been met could make a stronger case, Little said. “This was not a specific quid pro quo for an official act by a senator,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another attractive defense is entrapment -- arguing that the FBI overreached by concocting elaborate schemes to lure the defendants into committing crimes. Lawyers must convince a jury that “any law-abiding person would have acted in the same way,” a fact that Little said “is very hard to prove.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> “You don’t need guns to prove a conspiracy to import guns.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Rory Little, Professor\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the FBI investigation, laid out in a 1\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">20-page criminal complaint\u003c/a>, took years to complete, attorneys have only had a few weeks to craft their cases. Regardless of the specific defenses they settle on, Little said a major part of any defense attorney’s job will be to “counteract the wave of publicity” triggered by the Hollywood-like aspects of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Tony Serra, who is representing Raymond Chow, recently said his client “has helped the poor (and made) sacrifices,” claims meant to bolster Chow’s character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s status hearing, Yee and the other co-defendants will be appearing in front of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer for the first time. Randomly selected to hear the case, Breyer is the brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “He is one of the most experienced judges in the district,” with many highly publicized cases under his belt, Little said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it is much too early to predict anything about this case, other than packed courtrooms and a lot of media attention. According to Little, “It’s going to be a free-for-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144124594&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Entrapment, lack of physical evidence expected defenses in sprawling political corruption case.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1398733166,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":547},"headData":{"title":"Yee, Chow and Jackson Expected Back in Court Friday | KQED","description":"Entrapment, lack of physical evidence expected defenses in sprawling political corruption case.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Yee, Chow and Jackson Expected Back in Court Friday","datePublished":"2014-04-11T14:30:35.000Z","dateModified":"2014-04-29T00:59:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"132281 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=132281","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/11/yee-chow-and-jackson-expected-back-in-court-friday/","disqusTitle":"Yee, Chow and Jackson Expected Back in Court Friday","customPermalink":"2014/04/10/yee-chow-and-jackson-back-in-court-friday/","path":"/news/132281/yee-chow-and-jackson-expected-back-in-court-friday","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Suspended state Sen. Leland Yee is due back in court Friday, along with most of the other 28 co-defendants who have been caught up in the sprawling political corruption case that includes charges of gun trafficking, murder for hire, corruption and fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complicated, multi-part indictment is still a long way from trial. But that hasn’t stopped the speculation about possible defenses for the three lead defendants— Yee, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow and Keith Jackson — all expected back in court Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132332\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 332px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/481741233.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-132332 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/481741233-640x462.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Leland Yee gets into an awaiting car as he leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building after a court appearance on March 31, 2014 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).\" width=\"332\" height=\"239\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Leland Yee gets into an awaiting car as he leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building after a court appearance on March 31, 2014 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). \u003ccite>( (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>James Brosnahan, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/131063/keith-jackson-james-brosnahan-leland-yee-scandal\" target=\"_blank\"> who is representing political consultant Keith Jackson\u003c/a>, implied that a lack of physical evidence will be part of his defense against gun-trafficking charges. “The guns that are referred to, from the Philippines, do not exist. They are nowhere to be found,” Brosnahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rory Little, professor of law at UC Hastings, cautions against this defense. “We have in our society made the decision to have crimes, like conspiracy, like fraud, like bribery, that do not require any physical evidence,” Little said. “You don’t need guns to prove a conspiracy to import guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of political corruption charges facing Yee, arguing that the legal definition of bribery has not been met could make a stronger case, Little said. “This was not a specific quid pro quo for an official act by a senator,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another attractive defense is entrapment -- arguing that the FBI overreached by concocting elaborate schemes to lure the defendants into committing crimes. Lawyers must convince a jury that “any law-abiding person would have acted in the same way,” a fact that Little said “is very hard to prove.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> “You don’t need guns to prove a conspiracy to import guns.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Rory Little, Professor\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the FBI investigation, laid out in a 1\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">20-page criminal complaint\u003c/a>, took years to complete, attorneys have only had a few weeks to craft their cases. Regardless of the specific defenses they settle on, Little said a major part of any defense attorney’s job will be to “counteract the wave of publicity” triggered by the Hollywood-like aspects of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Tony Serra, who is representing Raymond Chow, recently said his client “has helped the poor (and made) sacrifices,” claims meant to bolster Chow’s character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s status hearing, Yee and the other co-defendants will be appearing in front of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer for the first time. Randomly selected to hear the case, Breyer is the brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “He is one of the most experienced judges in the district,” with many highly publicized cases under his belt, Little said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it is much too early to predict anything about this case, other than packed courtrooms and a lot of media attention. According to Little, “It’s going to be a free-for-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144124594&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/132281/yee-chow-and-jackson-expected-back-in-court-friday","authors":["188"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_6115","news_6066","news_139","news_6106"],"featImg":"news_132332","label":"news_6944"},"news_132053":{"type":"posts","id":"news_132053","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"132053","score":null,"sort":[1397008311000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"leland-yee-pleads-not-guilty-to-firearms-and-corruption-charges","title":"Sen. Leland Yee Pleads 'Not Guilty' to Firearms and Corruption Charges","publishDate":1397008311,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBy Paul Elias\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130744\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-e1396641660590.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Leland Yee pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to bribery and gun charges two weeks after he was arrested as part of an FBI sting targeting political corruption and an alleged organized crime syndicate based in San Francisco's Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee entered his pleas in federal court to one count of conspiracy to traffic in firearms without a license and illegally import firearms; one count of conspiring to defraud citizens of honest services; and six counts of engaging in a scheme to defraud citizens of honest services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democrat is accused of conspiring to connect an undercover FBI agent with a Philippine arms dealer in exchange for campaign contributions and of trading political influence for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, who is free on $500,000 bond, has been suspended from the Legislature. He and his wife, Maxine, signed over their San Francisco home on Tuesday as collateral for the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yees and the senator's attorney, Jim Lassart, declined to comment outside court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lawyers representing defendants in the case have argued that their clients were lured into the FBI sting by undercover agents who initially proposed much of the alleged wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Serra, a lawyer for Raymond Chow, the leader of the Chinatown organization the FBI says is a front for organized crime, said \"the government financed the crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Law enforcement is supposed to investigate crime and criminal activity. In this case, they created crime and criminal activity,\" Serra said outside court. \"This is political, and (Chow) is truly an innocent person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow remained jailed on charges that include money laundering and receiving stolen property. He didn't enter a plea Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Jackson, the former San Francisco school board president who served as a political consultant to Yee and, separately, to Chow's organization, pleaded not guilty to corruption, conspiracy, firearms trafficking and murder-for-hire charges. He is free on $250,000 bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 29 suspects were indicted last week after 20 people, including Yee, Chow and Jackson, were arrested on March 26. Several others have been arrested outside California and will have to appear in court in San Francisco at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say Jackson served as a middleman between Yee and the crime syndicate and helped funnel cash to the politician in exchange for political influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time Jackson was working for Yee, Jackson also was serving as a consultant to the Chinatown organization Ghee Kung Tong, the FBI claims. The tong portrays itself as a civic booster and community helper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the FBI alleges it has served as a front for the headquarters of the crime syndicate led by Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, Jackson, Chow and most of the other defendants were ordered back to court on Friday for their first appearance before U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, who will preside over the case through trial.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Another key defendant also enters not-guilty plea. Attorney for alleged gang leader attacks feds' case.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1397085891,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":490},"headData":{"title":"Sen. Leland Yee Pleads 'Not Guilty' to Firearms and Corruption Charges | KQED","description":"Another key defendant also enters not-guilty plea. 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(Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Leland Yee pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to bribery and gun charges two weeks after he was arrested as part of an FBI sting targeting political corruption and an alleged organized crime syndicate based in San Francisco's Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee entered his pleas in federal court to one count of conspiracy to traffic in firearms without a license and illegally import firearms; one count of conspiring to defraud citizens of honest services; and six counts of engaging in a scheme to defraud citizens of honest services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democrat is accused of conspiring to connect an undercover FBI agent with a Philippine arms dealer in exchange for campaign contributions and of trading political influence for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, who is free on $500,000 bond, has been suspended from the Legislature. He and his wife, Maxine, signed over their San Francisco home on Tuesday as collateral for the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yees and the senator's attorney, Jim Lassart, declined to comment outside court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lawyers representing defendants in the case have argued that their clients were lured into the FBI sting by undercover agents who initially proposed much of the alleged wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Serra, a lawyer for Raymond Chow, the leader of the Chinatown organization the FBI says is a front for organized crime, said \"the government financed the crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Law enforcement is supposed to investigate crime and criminal activity. In this case, they created crime and criminal activity,\" Serra said outside court. \"This is political, and (Chow) is truly an innocent person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow remained jailed on charges that include money laundering and receiving stolen property. He didn't enter a plea Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Jackson, the former San Francisco school board president who served as a political consultant to Yee and, separately, to Chow's organization, pleaded not guilty to corruption, conspiracy, firearms trafficking and murder-for-hire charges. He is free on $250,000 bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 29 suspects were indicted last week after 20 people, including Yee, Chow and Jackson, were arrested on March 26. Several others have been arrested outside California and will have to appear in court in San Francisco at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say Jackson served as a middleman between Yee and the crime syndicate and helped funnel cash to the politician in exchange for political influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time Jackson was working for Yee, Jackson also was serving as a consultant to the Chinatown organization Ghee Kung Tong, the FBI claims. 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Leland Yee of San Francisco took things to a whole new level. None of it has been proved, of course, yet, but the allegations are that Yee hooked up with a notorious gangster from San Francisco’s Chinatown, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, taking campaign cash from undercover FBI agents in exchange for political favors while also conspiring to trafficking weapons, including shoulder-fired rockets and assault rifles. Well, Friday morning the state Legislature voted to suspend Yee and two other Democratic senators mired in legal troubles, Ronald Calderon and Roderick Wright, both from Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining us now to help put it all in perspective, our Sacramento bureau chief, Scott Detrow, and Daniel Newman, president and co-founder of MapLight -- that’s a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that tracks the influence of money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Scott, let me begin with you. Describe the debate Friday morning, if you would, in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT DETROW:\u003c/strong> It was relatively straightforward. When you’re talking about allegations of bribery and potential gunrunning, there’s really bipartisan consensus that the allegations here are outrageous and something needs to be done about them. The divide here between Democrats and some Republicans was the degree of which to answer to this. Yee is now the third different state senator who’s facing legal problems in the last few months. But Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg acknowledged that the nature of the changes against Yee take things up to a whole new level here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>STEINBERG: I know of no ethics class that teaches about the illegality and the danger of gunrunning.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> But Scott Detrow, what about those other two senators, Rod Wright and Calderon? I mean, they took a leave of absence, so what’s the difference between that and the suspensions that were voted on Friday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> Well, I think one thing you’re seeing here is the cumulative effect. Roderick Wright is a different case than Yee and Calderon. Wright was convicted of basically lying about whether or not he lived in his Senate district. When you’re talking about Calderon and Yee, you’re talking about senators allegedly taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from undercover agents in exchange for official favors. And that’s something that Darrell Steinberg and other Senate Democratic leaders have said it is a much different degree and much more serious allegation than what Wright has been convicted of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> And the vote on Friday was 28-1 in favor of suspending these three senators. San Diego Republican Joel Anderson was the only senator who voted “no,” and he wanted to see all three Democrats expelled from the senate. He’s what he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>ANDERSON: So which is it today? More smoke and mirrors? More paid holidays?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> That’s right, and Calderon was initially knocked off of his committees before he went on paid leave in order to avoid being suspended, and that was the point that Wright went on paid leave as well. The Democratic Senate leaders thought it was an issue of parity if they’re dealing with one person facing legal trouble; the other person facing legal trouble had to face the same punishment, they thought. Steinberg says he would love to expel Calderon and Yee due to these bribery allegations. He asked them both to resign, but he says it wouldn’t be fair to kick them out the Senate before they’ve had their day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> And Daniel Newman from MapLight, of course the most incendiary aspects of this are the gunrunning and all that. But there is also this garden-variety bribery and taking money for favors. What struck you about those details of those allegations against Leland Yee this week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Well, you’ve got two scandals here. What’s illegal -- the allegations against Senator Yee -- and then there’s also the broader picture of what’s legal and goes on every day in terms of influence-buying. So in this case, Senator Yee is alleged to have taken $10,000 from a campaign contributor, this FBI undercover agent, in exchange for writing a letter to the State Health Department in favor of a contract that this contributor wanted. So that’s illegal to say, “I’ll do this for you if you give me this money.” But what’s not illegal and goes on every day is if you don’t explicitly link those two, and you’re not caught on tape by the FBI. So, for example, if a state senator has someone come to a fundraiser, receives $10,000 and then two weeks later that contributor says, “Oh by the way, there’s this issue before the state Health Department and if you were to do something about it, gosh I’d really like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> So it’s just sort of unspoken or understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> And from what you’ve heard this week, anything we’ve heard Darrell Steinberg talking about what could be done about this -- do you have any sense that this is going to shock the Legislature or the voters, for that matter, into doing something really fundamental here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Well, the big picture is that Californians have a very poor opinion of the state Legislature. (In) a PPIC poll this month, for example, only 36 percent of Californians approve of the job the Legislature is doing, and that was before this new news came out. And so Steinberg and other lawmakers who are good-hearted and trying to do the right thing, of course, are concerned that this is casting a pall on the whole institution. But the solutions I hear are focused pretty narrowly on like, \"Let’s suspend this person or expel this person.\" It’s the few bad apples idea, but really it’s a systemic problem that we create these transactional legislators because of the money that people need to get elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> How would you say, as states go, California ranks? What’s its reputation in terms of transparency, cleanliness in politics, corruption in politics? How do we stack up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Well, it’s a mixed bag in terms of transparency and campaign contributions published online. And California’s up there in the top third perhaps, but other states have it better, like Arizona next door, where they have what’s called clean elections system, so you can get public funding to run your campaign. You don’t have to raise money from big donors and there aren’t any donors to be on the hook to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> Scott Detrow, final question. This may or may not blow over between now and November, or other things may sort of transcend it. What’s the bottom-line concern for Democrats going into November because of these three scandals?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> I think the fact that three different lawmakers are facing different criminal problems and they’re not related. I think that gives Republicans a pretty compelling argument to make to voters saying, \"Look, one party has had absolute control over Sacramento and look what’s happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> All right. Scott Detrow, Sacramento bureau chief, and Daniel Newman president and co-founder of MapLight, thanks so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> Thank you, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\">State Senate Votes to Suspend Yee, Calderon and Wright (News Fix)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"FBI charges this week against State Senator Leland Yee of San Francisco took things to a whole new level.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1411061353,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1310},"headData":{"title":"Senator Yee Corruption Scandal Plays Out in Sacramento | KQED","description":"FBI charges this week against State Senator Leland Yee of San Francisco took things to a whole new level.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Senator Yee Corruption Scandal Plays Out in Sacramento","datePublished":"2014-03-28T08:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2014-09-18T17:29:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10341132 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10141132","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/senator-yee-corruption-scandal-plays-out-in-sacramento/","disqusTitle":"Senator Yee Corruption Scandal Plays Out in Sacramento","path":"/news/10341132/senator-yee-corruption-scandal-plays-out-in-sacramento","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/03/20140328atcrmag.mp3","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audioLink","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/03/20140328atcrmag.mp3"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER:\u003c/strong> Well, there’s nothing new or especially shocking about corruption in politics, but FBI charges against state Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco took things to a whole new level. None of it has been proved, of course, yet, but the allegations are that Yee hooked up with a notorious gangster from San Francisco’s Chinatown, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, taking campaign cash from undercover FBI agents in exchange for political favors while also conspiring to trafficking weapons, including shoulder-fired rockets and assault rifles. Well, Friday morning the state Legislature voted to suspend Yee and two other Democratic senators mired in legal troubles, Ronald Calderon and Roderick Wright, both from Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining us now to help put it all in perspective, our Sacramento bureau chief, Scott Detrow, and Daniel Newman, president and co-founder of MapLight -- that’s a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that tracks the influence of money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Scott, let me begin with you. Describe the debate Friday morning, if you would, in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT DETROW:\u003c/strong> It was relatively straightforward. When you’re talking about allegations of bribery and potential gunrunning, there’s really bipartisan consensus that the allegations here are outrageous and something needs to be done about them. The divide here between Democrats and some Republicans was the degree of which to answer to this. Yee is now the third different state senator who’s facing legal problems in the last few months. But Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg acknowledged that the nature of the changes against Yee take things up to a whole new level here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>STEINBERG: I know of no ethics class that teaches about the illegality and the danger of gunrunning.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> But Scott Detrow, what about those other two senators, Rod Wright and Calderon? I mean, they took a leave of absence, so what’s the difference between that and the suspensions that were voted on Friday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> Well, I think one thing you’re seeing here is the cumulative effect. Roderick Wright is a different case than Yee and Calderon. Wright was convicted of basically lying about whether or not he lived in his Senate district. When you’re talking about Calderon and Yee, you’re talking about senators allegedly taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from undercover agents in exchange for official favors. And that’s something that Darrell Steinberg and other Senate Democratic leaders have said it is a much different degree and much more serious allegation than what Wright has been convicted of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> And the vote on Friday was 28-1 in favor of suspending these three senators. San Diego Republican Joel Anderson was the only senator who voted “no,” and he wanted to see all three Democrats expelled from the senate. He’s what he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>ANDERSON: So which is it today? More smoke and mirrors? More paid holidays?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> That’s right, and Calderon was initially knocked off of his committees before he went on paid leave in order to avoid being suspended, and that was the point that Wright went on paid leave as well. The Democratic Senate leaders thought it was an issue of parity if they’re dealing with one person facing legal trouble; the other person facing legal trouble had to face the same punishment, they thought. Steinberg says he would love to expel Calderon and Yee due to these bribery allegations. He asked them both to resign, but he says it wouldn’t be fair to kick them out the Senate before they’ve had their day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> And Daniel Newman from MapLight, of course the most incendiary aspects of this are the gunrunning and all that. But there is also this garden-variety bribery and taking money for favors. What struck you about those details of those allegations against Leland Yee this week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Well, you’ve got two scandals here. What’s illegal -- the allegations against Senator Yee -- and then there’s also the broader picture of what’s legal and goes on every day in terms of influence-buying. So in this case, Senator Yee is alleged to have taken $10,000 from a campaign contributor, this FBI undercover agent, in exchange for writing a letter to the State Health Department in favor of a contract that this contributor wanted. So that’s illegal to say, “I’ll do this for you if you give me this money.” But what’s not illegal and goes on every day is if you don’t explicitly link those two, and you’re not caught on tape by the FBI. So, for example, if a state senator has someone come to a fundraiser, receives $10,000 and then two weeks later that contributor says, “Oh by the way, there’s this issue before the state Health Department and if you were to do something about it, gosh I’d really like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> So it’s just sort of unspoken or understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> And from what you’ve heard this week, anything we’ve heard Darrell Steinberg talking about what could be done about this -- do you have any sense that this is going to shock the Legislature or the voters, for that matter, into doing something really fundamental here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Well, the big picture is that Californians have a very poor opinion of the state Legislature. (In) a PPIC poll this month, for example, only 36 percent of Californians approve of the job the Legislature is doing, and that was before this new news came out. And so Steinberg and other lawmakers who are good-hearted and trying to do the right thing, of course, are concerned that this is casting a pall on the whole institution. But the solutions I hear are focused pretty narrowly on like, \"Let’s suspend this person or expel this person.\" It’s the few bad apples idea, but really it’s a systemic problem that we create these transactional legislators because of the money that people need to get elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> How would you say, as states go, California ranks? What’s its reputation in terms of transparency, cleanliness in politics, corruption in politics? How do we stack up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Well, it’s a mixed bag in terms of transparency and campaign contributions published online. And California’s up there in the top third perhaps, but other states have it better, like Arizona next door, where they have what’s called clean elections system, so you can get public funding to run your campaign. You don’t have to raise money from big donors and there aren’t any donors to be on the hook to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> Scott Detrow, final question. This may or may not blow over between now and November, or other things may sort of transcend it. What’s the bottom-line concern for Democrats going into November because of these three scandals?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> I think the fact that three different lawmakers are facing different criminal problems and they’re not related. I think that gives Republicans a pretty compelling argument to make to voters saying, \"Look, one party has had absolute control over Sacramento and look what’s happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> All right. Scott Detrow, Sacramento bureau chief, and Daniel Newman president and co-founder of MapLight, thanks so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DETROW:\u003c/strong> Thank you, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEWMAN:\u003c/strong> Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\">State Senate Votes to Suspend Yee, Calderon and Wright (News Fix)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10341132/senator-yee-corruption-scandal-plays-out-in-sacramento","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_139","news_6106"],"featImg":"news_10341133","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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