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Ron Calderon Gets Prison for Taking Bribes","publishDate":1477085164,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — Former California state Sen. Ron Calderon was sentenced Friday to 3½ years in prison in a corruption scandal in which he acknowledged taking bribes in exchange for his influence in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder imposed the sentence in Los Angeles after listening to Calderon emotionally ask to remain under house arrest or \"at least get me home to my family sooner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors had asked for a five-year prison term in a blistering brief that mocked Calderon for making false and misleading claims about bribes he accepted and distorting his previous admissions in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Defendant asks this court to endorse his view that an elected official who repeatedly and egregiously abuses the trust of the electorate warrants essentially the lowest possible sanction for a federal conviction,\" Assistant U.S. Attorney Mack Jenkins wrote. \"Defendant's requested sentence would permit (Calderon) to continue to trivialize his corrupt actions, as he does throughout his sentencing position, and continue to evade true accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon was ordered to report to prison Jan. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing brought an end to an ugly chapter in California politics that saw three state Democratic senators indicted in 2014. It also tarnishes what was a Calderon political dynasty in the suburbs of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"A2wE6CtoUSr4Y5w203gwS1IRlZ9NQzkn\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, 59, pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in June and admitted to soliciting more than $155,000 in payments or financial benefits in exchange for supporting or blocking legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took $12,000 worth of trips to Las Vegas from an undercover FBI agent who posed as the owner of a Los Angeles movie studio seeking his support for film tax credits, though the legislation never passed, according to his signed plea agreement. The agent hired Calderon's daughter for a $3,000 a month no-show job and paid $5,000 toward his son's college tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon also acknowledged helping a hospital owner maintain a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/25/5-charged-in-massive-580m-health-insurance-kickback-scheme/\" target=\"_blank\">massive health care fraud scheme\u003c/a> in exchange for hiring his son for $10,000 over three summers for no more than 15 days of work a season filing papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendant's brother, ex-Assemblyman Thomas Calderon, was also caught up in the FBI investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Calderon, 62, a political consultant, pleaded guilty to laundering some of the bribes and was recently sentenced to 10 months in prison. Half of that term was to be served at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Montebello Democrats had followed their older brother, Charles Calderon, to Sacramento, where he served in both chambers of the Legislature before they were elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictments came down against his brothers, Charles Calderon lost a race for a seat on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench. His son, Ian Calderon, is a Democrat in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal troubles for the two younger Calderon brothers in 2014 came at an embarrassing time for Senate Democrats. Fellow Sens. Leland Yee and Rod Wright were facing unrelated felony charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three were suspended, though they continued to be paid under rules later reversed by voters to give state lawmakers the ability to suspend colleagues' pay and voting power if accused of wrongdoing in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, of San Francisco, was sentenced to five years in federal prison in an organized crime case centered in San Francisco's Chinatown. Wright was convicted of lying about living outside his Los Angeles district and sentenced to three months in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Er9Hf8JqaN0RwSjjb8NlT6UHu6BNEbRT\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Regalado, a political science professor at California State University, Los Angeles, said the convictions of the Calderons were symbolically important, but he didn't think they would have a big impact on future corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public would like to think the convictions and sentences of Tom and Ron would help clean up Sacramento and the body politic, as well as strike fear in the hearts of legislators who are willing to engage in illegal gambits with the public's money,\" Regalado said. \"But the reality is we've seen this time and again. ... There's a lot of greed that continues to go around, so this will be a drop in the pan.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Calderon was sentenced Friday to 3½ years in a corruption scandal in which he acknowledged taking bribes in exchange for his influence in Sacramento.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1477086634,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":694},"headData":{"title":"Former State Sen. Ron Calderon Gets Prison for Taking Bribes | KQED","description":"Calderon was sentenced Friday to 3½ years in a corruption scandal in which he acknowledged taking bribes in exchange for his influence in Sacramento.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Former State Sen. 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Ron Calderon was sentenced Friday to 3½ years in prison in a corruption scandal in which he acknowledged taking bribes in exchange for his influence in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder imposed the sentence in Los Angeles after listening to Calderon emotionally ask to remain under house arrest or \"at least get me home to my family sooner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors had asked for a five-year prison term in a blistering brief that mocked Calderon for making false and misleading claims about bribes he accepted and distorting his previous admissions in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Defendant asks this court to endorse his view that an elected official who repeatedly and egregiously abuses the trust of the electorate warrants essentially the lowest possible sanction for a federal conviction,\" Assistant U.S. Attorney Mack Jenkins wrote. \"Defendant's requested sentence would permit (Calderon) to continue to trivialize his corrupt actions, as he does throughout his sentencing position, and continue to evade true accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon was ordered to report to prison Jan. 3.\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 sentencing brought an end to an ugly chapter in California politics that saw three state Democratic senators indicted in 2014. It also tarnishes what was a Calderon political dynasty in the suburbs of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, 59, pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in June and admitted to soliciting more than $155,000 in payments or financial benefits in exchange for supporting or blocking legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took $12,000 worth of trips to Las Vegas from an undercover FBI agent who posed as the owner of a Los Angeles movie studio seeking his support for film tax credits, though the legislation never passed, according to his signed plea agreement. The agent hired Calderon's daughter for a $3,000 a month no-show job and paid $5,000 toward his son's college tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon also acknowledged helping a hospital owner maintain a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/25/5-charged-in-massive-580m-health-insurance-kickback-scheme/\" target=\"_blank\">massive health care fraud scheme\u003c/a> in exchange for hiring his son for $10,000 over three summers for no more than 15 days of work a season filing papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendant's brother, ex-Assemblyman Thomas Calderon, was also caught up in the FBI investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Calderon, 62, a political consultant, pleaded guilty to laundering some of the bribes and was recently sentenced to 10 months in prison. Half of that term was to be served at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Montebello Democrats had followed their older brother, Charles Calderon, to Sacramento, where he served in both chambers of the Legislature before they were elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictments came down against his brothers, Charles Calderon lost a race for a seat on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench. His son, Ian Calderon, is a Democrat in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal troubles for the two younger Calderon brothers in 2014 came at an embarrassing time for Senate Democrats. Fellow Sens. Leland Yee and Rod Wright were facing unrelated felony charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three were suspended, though they continued to be paid under rules later reversed by voters to give state lawmakers the ability to suspend colleagues' pay and voting power if accused of wrongdoing in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, of San Francisco, was sentenced to five years in federal prison in an organized crime case centered in San Francisco's Chinatown. Wright was convicted of lying about living outside his Los Angeles district and sentenced to three months in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Regalado, a political science professor at California State University, Los Angeles, said the convictions of the Calderons were symbolically important, but he didn't think they would have a big impact on future corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public would like to think the convictions and sentences of Tom and Ron would help clean up Sacramento and the body politic, as well as strike fear in the hearts of legislators who are willing to engage in illegal gambits with the public's money,\" Regalado said. \"But the reality is we've seen this time and again. ... 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Ron Calderon agreed to plead guilty Monday to mail fraud as part of a plea agreement in which he admitted to accepting bribes in exchange for supporting certain legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, 58, agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud through the deprivation of honest services, according to a plea agreement filed in federal Los Angeles court. Prosecutors dropped more than 20 other charges in exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon is expected to enter the plea in court as early as Monday. He faces up to 20 years in prison at his yet-to-be-scheduled sentencing, though prosecutors said they would ask that he get no more than six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon had been set for trial next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney, Mark Geragos, didn't immediately return a call for comment Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geragos previously told The Associated Press that the government's \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-calderon-plea-20160606-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement last week with Calderon's brother\u003c/a>, former state Assemblyman Thomas Calderon, was an obvious effort to pressure his brother to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WZjiEUjlrDeLyJHldPivgjRLhXt0tfms\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately this is the way the U.S. system of justice works,\" Geragos said. \"You are facing enormous consequences in terms of sentencing guidelines and the government makes you an offer that you can't refuse, so you will sing from their script in order to get your head out of the noose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Calderon, 62, pleaded guilty last week to a federal money laundering charge for allowing bribe money earmarked for his brother to be funneled through his firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-to-back plea agreements will settle the high-profile case that was filed in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public officials who engage in corrupt behavior threaten the basic fabric of our democracy,\" U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said in a statement. \"The Calderons have acknowledged their roles in a bribery scheme in which money for them and their families alone was driving legislation that would have benefited only a few individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ron Calderon's plea agreement, he agreed to support legislation that the government says \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/03/ron-calderon/\" target=\"_blank\">helped a hospital owner maintain a long-running and massive health-care fraud scheme\u003c/a>. The law was repealed in 2013, and the hospital owner was prosecuted separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"gCa2hcBfgHScfA6tWpnWnJrCb3qCiAtg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the hospital owner paid $30,000 to Calderon's son for three summers of work, according to the plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon also acknowledged taking money from an undercover FBI agent who posed as the owner of a Los Angeles movie studio and sought Calderon's help promoting an unsuccessful bill that would have expanded tax credits for the film industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for supporting the bill, Calderon accepted $12,000 worth of trips to Las Vegas and a $25,000 payment to a bank account belonging to his brother's consulting company, according to the plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undercover agent also paid Calderon's daughter $3,000 a month for work she didn't do and a $5,000 payment toward his son's college tuition, the plea agreement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My office will not tolerate pay-to-play corruption by public officials and their associates,\" Deirdre Fike, chief of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said in a statement. \"While in office, Ron Calderon and others profited handsomely when bribe money was accepted and laundered, and I'm gratified that he has chosen to take responsibility for his actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Prosecutors say that in a plea agreement filed Monday, Calderon admits accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for official acts as a legislator.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1465855082,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":566},"headData":{"title":"Ex-State Sen. 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Ron Calderon to Plead Guilty to Corruption","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Amanda Lee Myers\u003cbr>Associated Press\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10987949/ex-state-sen-ron-calderon-to-plead-guilty-to-corruption","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>LOS ANGELES -- Former California state Sen. Ron Calderon agreed to plead guilty Monday to mail fraud as part of a plea agreement in which he admitted to accepting bribes in exchange for supporting certain legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, 58, agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud through the deprivation of honest services, according to a plea agreement filed in federal Los Angeles court. Prosecutors dropped more than 20 other charges in exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon is expected to enter the plea in court as early as Monday. He faces up to 20 years in prison at his yet-to-be-scheduled sentencing, though prosecutors said they would ask that he get no more than six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon had been set for trial next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney, Mark Geragos, didn't immediately return a call for comment Monday.\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>Geragos previously told The Associated Press that the government's \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-calderon-plea-20160606-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement last week with Calderon's brother\u003c/a>, former state Assemblyman Thomas Calderon, was an obvious effort to pressure his brother to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately this is the way the U.S. system of justice works,\" Geragos said. \"You are facing enormous consequences in terms of sentencing guidelines and the government makes you an offer that you can't refuse, so you will sing from their script in order to get your head out of the noose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Calderon, 62, pleaded guilty last week to a federal money laundering charge for allowing bribe money earmarked for his brother to be funneled through his firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-to-back plea agreements will settle the high-profile case that was filed in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public officials who engage in corrupt behavior threaten the basic fabric of our democracy,\" U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said in a statement. \"The Calderons have acknowledged their roles in a bribery scheme in which money for them and their families alone was driving legislation that would have benefited only a few individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ron Calderon's plea agreement, he agreed to support legislation that the government says \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/03/ron-calderon/\" target=\"_blank\">helped a hospital owner maintain a long-running and massive health-care fraud scheme\u003c/a>. The law was repealed in 2013, and the hospital owner was prosecuted separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the hospital owner paid $30,000 to Calderon's son for three summers of work, according to the plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon also acknowledged taking money from an undercover FBI agent who posed as the owner of a Los Angeles movie studio and sought Calderon's help promoting an unsuccessful bill that would have expanded tax credits for the film industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for supporting the bill, Calderon accepted $12,000 worth of trips to Las Vegas and a $25,000 payment to a bank account belonging to his brother's consulting company, according to the plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undercover agent also paid Calderon's daughter $3,000 a month for work she didn't do and a $5,000 payment toward his son's college tuition, the plea agreement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My office will not tolerate pay-to-play corruption by public officials and their associates,\" Deirdre Fike, chief of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said in a statement. \"While in office, Ron Calderon and others profited handsomely when bribe money was accepted and laundered, and I'm gratified that he has chosen to take responsibility for his actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10987949/ex-state-sen-ron-calderon-to-plead-guilty-to-corruption","authors":["byline_news_10987949"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19522","news_4475","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10987953","label":"news_72"},"news_10974620":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10974620","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10974620","score":null,"sort":[1464851100000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"proposition-50-should-legislature-be-able-to-suspend-lawmakers-without-pay","title":"Prop. 50: Should Legislature Be Able to Suspend Lawmakers Without Pay?","publishDate":1464851100,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California's November ballot will be jammed with statewide propositions, but there’s just one measure in the June primary. Proposition 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the state Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story behind Prop. 50 starts in 2013, when the FBI raided the office of Democratic state \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/18711\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Ron Calderon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508\" 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>“According to a sealed affidavit obtained exclusively by \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/exclusive-hollywoodsting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera’s\u003c/a> investigative unit, the senator is for sale: a politician willing to influence legislation in exchange for money,” reported Al Jazeera at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera America\u003c/a> would later report, the FBI accused Calderon of accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes -- and Calderon was indicted in February 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later came the conviction of a different Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/03/wright-case-hits-close-to-home-for-many-calif-lawmakers/\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Wright\u003c/a>, for perjury and voter fraud -- living outside his district in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974683 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Senate.CA.Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans tried to expel Wright. They said a convicted felon has no place in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats blocked it. Then-President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg argued the irreversible action of expulsion was premature -- both for Wright, who was trying to overturn his conviction, and for Calderon, who had yet to face trial. They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then -- just one month later -- came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running -- all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"TbJcfLVhuM0vsrVTIdUNag6A9A1sCmEr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. \"One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. Three?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\">voted to suspend Calderon, Wright and Yee\u003c/a> -- two days after Yee’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Constitution\u003c/a> does not allow the Legislature to strip a lawmaker of pay, the three suspended senators still got their taxpayer-funded salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So later that year, the Legislature nearly unanimously placed the constitutional amendment on the June 2016 ballot that's now called Prop. 50. It would allow the Assembly or Senate to suspend one of its members -- with or without pay -- with a two-thirds vote. Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,\" says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it’s incredibly rare that the Legislature must suspend or expel a lawmaker -- and it may never happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But if it does, the Legislature would have the tool,\" says Mayer. \"So it’s a simple choice for voters: Do you want the Legislature to have the ability to suspend them without pay, or not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Senator Joel Anderson disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really,\" he says, \"those people shouldn’t be suspended; they should be expelled. If you cannot perform the duty of voting for a bill, for whatever reason, then you need to go home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he worries about the possible intimidation of lawmakers who can’t afford to lose their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will have a chilling effect,\" Anderson says, sitting in his Capitol office. \"Can you imagine telling a legislator, we’re gonna dock your pay for two weeks because you spoke out?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 50 has drawn very little attention this election cycle. That's a stark contrast to when three California senators ran afoul of the law -- which is what led to Prop. 50 in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There's just one measure on the ballot for California's June primary. Prop. 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1464976197,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":703},"headData":{"title":"Prop. 50: Should Legislature Be Able to Suspend Lawmakers Without Pay? | KQED","description":"There's just one measure on the ballot for California's June primary. Prop. 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Prop. 50: Should Legislature Be Able to Suspend Lawmakers Without Pay?","datePublished":"2016-06-02T07:05:00.000Z","dateModified":"2016-06-03T17:49:57.000Z","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":"10974620 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10974620","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/02/proposition-50-should-legislature-be-able-to-suspend-lawmakers-without-pay/","disqusTitle":"Prop. 50: Should Legislature Be Able to Suspend Lawmakers Without Pay?","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/about/bios/ben-adler/\">Ben Adler\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","nprStoryId":"480633454","path":"/news/10974620/proposition-50-should-legislature-be-able-to-suspend-lawmakers-without-pay","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California's November ballot will be jammed with statewide propositions, but there’s just one measure in the June primary. Proposition 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the state Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story behind Prop. 50 starts in 2013, when the FBI raided the office of Democratic state \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/18711\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Ron Calderon\u003c/a>.\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/267294508&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/267294508'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to a sealed affidavit obtained exclusively by \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/exclusive-hollywoodsting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera’s\u003c/a> investigative unit, the senator is for sale: a politician willing to influence legislation in exchange for money,” reported Al Jazeera at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera America\u003c/a> would later report, the FBI accused Calderon of accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes -- and Calderon was indicted in February 2014.\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>Days later came the conviction of a different Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/03/wright-case-hits-close-to-home-for-many-calif-lawmakers/\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Wright\u003c/a>, for perjury and voter fraud -- living outside his district in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974683 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Senate.CA.Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans tried to expel Wright. They said a convicted felon has no place in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats blocked it. Then-President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg argued the irreversible action of expulsion was premature -- both for Wright, who was trying to overturn his conviction, and for Calderon, who had yet to face trial. They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then -- just one month later -- came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running -- all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. \"One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. Three?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\">voted to suspend Calderon, Wright and Yee\u003c/a> -- two days after Yee’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Constitution\u003c/a> does not allow the Legislature to strip a lawmaker of pay, the three suspended senators still got their taxpayer-funded salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So later that year, the Legislature nearly unanimously placed the constitutional amendment on the June 2016 ballot that's now called Prop. 50. It would allow the Assembly or Senate to suspend one of its members -- with or without pay -- with a two-thirds vote. Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,\" says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it’s incredibly rare that the Legislature must suspend or expel a lawmaker -- and it may never happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But if it does, the Legislature would have the tool,\" says Mayer. \"So it’s a simple choice for voters: Do you want the Legislature to have the ability to suspend them without pay, or not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Senator Joel Anderson disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really,\" he says, \"those people shouldn’t be suspended; they should be expelled. If you cannot perform the duty of voting for a bill, for whatever reason, then you need to go home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he worries about the possible intimidation of lawmakers who can’t afford to lose their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will have a chilling effect,\" Anderson says, sitting in his Capitol office. \"Can you imagine telling a legislator, we’re gonna dock your pay for two weeks because you spoke out?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 50 has drawn very little attention this election cycle. That's a stark contrast to when three California senators ran afoul of the law -- which is what led to Prop. 50 in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10974620/proposition-50-should-legislature-be-able-to-suspend-lawmakers-without-pay","authors":["byline_news_10974620"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_19522","news_139","news_5689","news_4475","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10974673","label":"news_72"},"news_10770935":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10770935","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10770935","score":null,"sort":[1448438757000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"5-charged-in-massive-580m-health-insurance-kickback-scheme","title":"5 Charged in Massive $580M Health Insurance Kickback Scheme","publishDate":1448438757,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Five people, including a former hospital executive and two surgeons, are charged with a massive kickback scheme that resulted in billing $580 million to the government and insurance companies, authorities announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two already pleaded guilty and the others have agreed to plead guilty in connection to the scheme, which involved paying tens of millions of dollars to dozens of doctors, chiropractors and others to refer patients to two Southern California hospitals for spinal surgeries, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Injured workers were treated like livestock by doctors and hospitals who paid or accepted kickbacks and bribes in exchange for referrals.'\u003ccite>Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over an eight-year period, Pacific Hospital of Long Beach and Tri-City Regional Medical Center in Hawaiian Gardens billed thousands of operations to California's workers' compensation system, the U.S. Department of Labor and workers' compensation insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the patients lived hundreds of miles away from Pacific Hospital, and closer to other qualified medical facilities. The patients were not informed that medical professionals had been offered kickbacks to induce them to refer the surgeries to Pacific Hospital,\" the U.S. attorney's statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Injured workers were treated like livestock by doctors and hospitals who paid or accepted kickbacks and bribes in exchange for referrals,\" California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"chvLz54y0mUIvH5DP3CrVl1sxnKyFHlH\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacific Hospital's former owner, Michael D. Drobot, pleaded guilty last year to taking part in the fraud. He also has acknowledged bribing state \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/ron-calderon\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Ron Calderon\u003c/a>, who has pleaded not guilty to bribery, fraud and money laundering charges that carry a maximum sentence of 396 years in federal prison. Calderon is awaiting trial next year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon (D-Montebello) allegedly accepted about $100,000 in exchange for promoting legislation to expand Hollywood tax credits and to protect the financial interests of Pacific Hospital, which benefited from a provision of the workers' compensation law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the other cases, charges were filed against two people on Tuesday, and three previous cases were unsealed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James L. Canedo, Pacific Hospital's former chief financial officer, pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy to engage in fraud, money laundering and other crimes. Paul Richard Randall, a health care marketer previously affiliated with Pacific Hospital and with Tri-City Regional Medical Center, pleaded guilty in April 2012 to conspiracy for recruiting chiropractors and doctors to refer patients to Tri-City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770959\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Calderon800-800x715.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Ron Calderon allegedly accepted about $100,000, in part to protect the financial interests of Pacific Hospital. Calderon is awaiting trial on bribery, fraud and money laundering charges.\" width=\"800\" height=\"715\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10770959\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Calderon800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Calderon800-400x358.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Ron Calderon allegedly accepted about $100,000, in part to protect the financial interests of Pacific Hospital. Calderon is awaiting trial on bribery, fraud and money laundering charges. \u003ccite>(Manny Crisostomo/Sacramento Bee/MCT via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orthopedic surgeons Philip Sobol of Studio City and Mitchell Cohen of Irvine and Alan Ivar, a Las Vegas chiropractor who used to live in Southern California, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy or other charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under terms of their plea agreements, Sobol could be sentenced to up to 10 years in federal prison while Canedo, Ivar and Randall could get up to five years. Cohen faces up to three years for filing a false tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health care fraud and kickback schemes burden our health care system, drive up insurance costs for everyone, and corrupt both the doctor-patient relationship and the medical profession itself,\" U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The members of this scheme treated injured workers and their spines as commodities, to be traded away to the highest bidder. This investigation should send a message to the entire industry: patients are not for sale.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five defendants will have to pay restitution, which in Canedo's case will be at least $20 million, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The scheme involved paying dozens of doctors to refer patients to two Southern California hospitals for spinal surgeries.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1448417123,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":618},"headData":{"title":"5 Charged in Massive $580M Health Insurance Kickback Scheme | KQED","description":"The scheme involved paying dozens of doctors to refer patients to two Southern California hospitals for spinal surgeries.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"5 Charged in Massive $580M Health Insurance Kickback Scheme","datePublished":"2015-11-25T08:05:57.000Z","dateModified":"2015-11-25T02:05:23.000Z","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":"10770935 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10770935","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/25/5-charged-in-massive-580m-health-insurance-kickback-scheme/","disqusTitle":"5 Charged in Massive $580M Health Insurance Kickback Scheme","nprByline":"Associated Press","path":"/news/10770935/5-charged-in-massive-580m-health-insurance-kickback-scheme","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Five people, including a former hospital executive and two surgeons, are charged with a massive kickback scheme that resulted in billing $580 million to the government and insurance companies, authorities announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two already pleaded guilty and the others have agreed to plead guilty in connection to the scheme, which involved paying tens of millions of dollars to dozens of doctors, chiropractors and others to refer patients to two Southern California hospitals for spinal surgeries, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Injured workers were treated like livestock by doctors and hospitals who paid or accepted kickbacks and bribes in exchange for referrals.'\u003ccite>Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over an eight-year period, Pacific Hospital of Long Beach and Tri-City Regional Medical Center in Hawaiian Gardens billed thousands of operations to California's workers' compensation system, the U.S. Department of Labor and workers' compensation insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the patients lived hundreds of miles away from Pacific Hospital, and closer to other qualified medical facilities. The patients were not informed that medical professionals had been offered kickbacks to induce them to refer the surgeries to Pacific Hospital,\" the U.S. attorney's statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Injured workers were treated like livestock by doctors and hospitals who paid or accepted kickbacks and bribes in exchange for referrals,\" California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said in a statement.\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>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacific Hospital's former owner, Michael D. Drobot, pleaded guilty last year to taking part in the fraud. He also has acknowledged bribing state \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/ron-calderon\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Ron Calderon\u003c/a>, who has pleaded not guilty to bribery, fraud and money laundering charges that carry a maximum sentence of 396 years in federal prison. Calderon is awaiting trial next year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon (D-Montebello) allegedly accepted about $100,000 in exchange for promoting legislation to expand Hollywood tax credits and to protect the financial interests of Pacific Hospital, which benefited from a provision of the workers' compensation law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the other cases, charges were filed against two people on Tuesday, and three previous cases were unsealed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James L. Canedo, Pacific Hospital's former chief financial officer, pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy to engage in fraud, money laundering and other crimes. Paul Richard Randall, a health care marketer previously affiliated with Pacific Hospital and with Tri-City Regional Medical Center, pleaded guilty in April 2012 to conspiracy for recruiting chiropractors and doctors to refer patients to Tri-City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770959\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Calderon800-800x715.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Ron Calderon allegedly accepted about $100,000, in part to protect the financial interests of Pacific Hospital. Calderon is awaiting trial on bribery, fraud and money laundering charges.\" width=\"800\" height=\"715\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10770959\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Calderon800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Calderon800-400x358.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Ron Calderon allegedly accepted about $100,000, in part to protect the financial interests of Pacific Hospital. Calderon is awaiting trial on bribery, fraud and money laundering charges. \u003ccite>(Manny Crisostomo/Sacramento Bee/MCT via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orthopedic surgeons Philip Sobol of Studio City and Mitchell Cohen of Irvine and Alan Ivar, a Las Vegas chiropractor who used to live in Southern California, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy or other charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under terms of their plea agreements, Sobol could be sentenced to up to 10 years in federal prison while Canedo, Ivar and Randall could get up to five years. Cohen faces up to three years for filing a false tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health care fraud and kickback schemes burden our health care system, drive up insurance costs for everyone, and corrupt both the doctor-patient relationship and the medical profession itself,\" U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The members of this scheme treated injured workers and their spines as commodities, to be traded away to the highest bidder. This investigation should send a message to the entire industry: patients are not for sale.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five defendants will have to pay restitution, which in Canedo's case will be at least $20 million, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10770935/5-charged-in-massive-580m-health-insurance-kickback-scheme","authors":["byline_news_10770935"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_5690","news_4475","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10770939","label":"news_72"},"news_141135":{"type":"posts","id":"news_141135","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"141135","score":null,"sort":[1404498833000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-doctors-used-fake-hardware-in-spine-surgeries-lawsuits-say","title":"California Doctors Used Fake Hardware in Spine Surgeries, Lawsuits Say","publishDate":1404498833,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-141138 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/screws-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"screws\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Solomon had these screws removed from his back. According to his lawsuit, he has ongoing David Solomon had these screws removed from his back. According to his lawsuit, he has ongoing pain and loss of movement after a screw broke. (Chris Purcell)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Christina Jewett and Will Evans, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors in Southern California have implanted counterfeit screws and rods, ginned up in a small machine shop, into the backs of thousands of injured workers, according to lawsuits filed throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some doctors who used the bogus hardware took kickbacks including cash and private plane rides, while middlemen and hospitals profited by wildly inflating the cost of the screws, according to one suit filed in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations deepen the scandal surrounding a Corona del Mar hospital executive who pleaded guilty in April to paying doctors to bring in patients as part of a $500 million insurance scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive, Michael Drobot, also admitted to bribing former state Sen. Ronald Calderon to keep huge insurance payments flowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest lawsuit, filed in mid-June in Los Angeles, says the knockoff spinal implants could harm patients because they could get an infection or react to metal that is not surgical grade. The screws also might loosen or fail. Some of the bogus screws cost $300 to make but were billed at as much as $12,500 each, records say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the worst example where fraud has progressed from being a financial crime to hurting people for profit,” said Thomas Fraysse, an Oakland attorney on the case. “It’s beyond unethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law firms in the Bay Area and Los Angeles plan to continue to file cases on behalf of people with counterfeit implants studding their backs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A contractor for Spinal Solutions, the firm accused of distributing the implants, and an attorney for the machine shop’s owner deny the allegations, saying it is impossible that the elderly machinist mass-produced the hardware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases revolve around spinal fusion surgeries, in which rods and screws are implanted in the back to relieve pain. The state’s workers’ compensation system long paid a premium for hardware used in the surgeries until a loophole was closed by recent legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest lawsuit accuses defendants of fraud and battery, saying the hardware has put the life of the patient, Arthur Golia of Riverside, at risk. Golia had seven counterfeit devices implanted in his spine, according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows a similar January case, which alleges that a Los Angeles man had medical implants from the mom-and-pop machine shop in Temecula put in his back in 2011. One of the screws broke, requiring David Solomon to undergo a second surgery in 2013. He has ongoing pain and loss of movement, the lawsuit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you break this down to the core of right and wrong, it really is using people as pieces of meat to make money,” said Santa Ana attorney Chris Purcell, who filed the Solomon case in Los Angeles Superior Court. “It’s horrifying to me that this could still happen in this day and age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate whistleblower lawsuit alleges that many of the patients with fake implants may not have needed the surgery at all. According to that May 2012 suit, they were the collateral damage of a massive scheme to defraud insurers, involving Drobot, former owner of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot admitted to paying doctors kickbacks of up to $15,000 to operate in his hospital. He also admitted to paying bribes to Calderon to protect a law allowing hospitals to bill insurance providers for the full cost of spinal implants. Calderon, a Montebello Democrat, has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges. Drobot’s sentencing is scheduled for December, according to news reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Golia, the plaintiff in the latest lawsuit, did not name Drobot as a defendant in their case but said their findings demonstrate the breadth of the graft surrounding the lucrative spine surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golia trusted his doctor to use medical implants approved by the Food and Drug Administration, his lawsuit states. Instead, the case alleges, Dr. Jack Akmakjian used counterfeit implants in Golia’s back because he was being paid a kickback to do so. Separately, the Medical Board of California accused Akmakjian in April of injecting unsafe amounts of steroids in patients and overprescribing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as Akmakjian’s office manager said there would be no comment. Parkview Community Hospital, where Golia was treated, did not respond to questions by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spinal Solutions LLC, a now-shuttered Murrieta company, is accused of distributing and inflating the cost of the hardware in the Golia lawsuit and the whistleblower claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm’s owner, Roger K. Williams, is accused of passing off the counterfeit rods and screws as FDA-approved even though they were made at the local tool shop. The case says Williams, his wife at the time and a key staffer hid or destroyed records that revealed the true origin of the hardware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams filed for bankruptcy last year, claiming $12.6 million in liabilities, including a plane, yacht and $50,000 Mercedes-Benz. The petition was rejected, court records say, in part because Williams failed to disclose his ownership of a second airplane and a second Harley-Davidson motorcycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach Williams were unsuccessful. Arnold Neves Jr., a former attorney for Spinal Solutions, said of the allegations, “I don’t know anything about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuits, Spinal Solutions asked William Crowder, owner of Crowder Machine & Tool of Temecula, to make the rods and screws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Mansor, an independent contractor who worked for Spinal Solutions and attended surgeries with their products, said the allegations sound “bogus.” Mansor said he went to Crowder’s machine shop for repairs on tools like screwdrivers. But he said Crowder didn’t have the equipment or capacity to churn out the spinal implants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The guy can barely even walk. ... They don’t have computerized machines,” he said. “To me, it doesn’t sound right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The machine shop is now closed and the owner, who used to make parts for sailboats, is in poor health, said Crowder’s lawyer, Alan Mohill. Crowder made only “prototypes” for Spinal Solutions and didn’t know how they would be used, Mohill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations are false,” he said. “He’s just a small little machine shop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowder sued Spinal Solutions last July, saying the firm owed him $29,900 “to machine, repair and prototype” tools for doctors. Crowder attached a one-year, $50,000 contract with the implant firm to his suit. Crowder won a judgment against Spinal Solutions because it did not respond to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Northcutt, chief executive of Aurora Spine in Carlsbad, said devices like rods and screws are relatively simple to make. But for them to be designated as surgical grade requires FDA approval, biomechanical tests and liability insurance that add to the costs. Northcutt said he briefly dealt with Spinal Solutions but found its products inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northcutt recalls seeing one Spinal Solutions representative pull up to a doctor’s office in a gleaming white Rolls-Royce and hearing that the company ferried its goods by private plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone knew something funny was going on,” Northcutt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA cited Spinal Solutions in 2012 for a variety of quality control violations. Last year, the agency announced that the company was recalling spinal implants because problems with the products “could cause patient harm due to implant breakage, movement, or inadequate sterilization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FDA spokeswoman said she could not comment on ongoing litigation or confirm the agency is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more, visit cironline.org. Jewett can be reached at cjewett@cironline.org, and Evans can be reached at wevans@cironline.org. Follow them on Twitter: @JewettCIR and @willCIR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Suit alleges counterfeit screws and rods were implanted in the backs of injured workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1404498833,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1395},"headData":{"title":"California Doctors Used Fake Hardware in Spine Surgeries, Lawsuits Say | KQED","description":"Suit alleges counterfeit screws and rods were implanted in the backs of injured workers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Doctors Used Fake Hardware in Spine Surgeries, Lawsuits Say","datePublished":"2014-07-04T18:33:53.000Z","dateModified":"2014-07-04T18:33:53.000Z","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":"141135 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=141135","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/04/california-doctors-used-fake-hardware-in-spine-surgeries-lawsuits-say/","disqusTitle":"California Doctors Used Fake Hardware in Spine Surgeries, Lawsuits Say","customPermalink":"2014/07/04/fake_hardware_spine_surgery/","path":"/news/141135/california-doctors-used-fake-hardware-in-spine-surgeries-lawsuits-say","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-141138 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/screws-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"screws\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Solomon had these screws removed from his back. According to his lawsuit, he has ongoing David Solomon had these screws removed from his back. According to his lawsuit, he has ongoing pain and loss of movement after a screw broke. (Chris Purcell)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Christina Jewett and Will Evans, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors in Southern California have implanted counterfeit screws and rods, ginned up in a small machine shop, into the backs of thousands of injured workers, according to lawsuits filed throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some doctors who used the bogus hardware took kickbacks including cash and private plane rides, while middlemen and hospitals profited by wildly inflating the cost of the screws, according to one suit filed in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations deepen the scandal surrounding a Corona del Mar hospital executive who pleaded guilty in April to paying doctors to bring in patients as part of a $500 million insurance scam.\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 executive, Michael Drobot, also admitted to bribing former state Sen. Ronald Calderon to keep huge insurance payments flowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest lawsuit, filed in mid-June in Los Angeles, says the knockoff spinal implants could harm patients because they could get an infection or react to metal that is not surgical grade. The screws also might loosen or fail. Some of the bogus screws cost $300 to make but were billed at as much as $12,500 each, records say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the worst example where fraud has progressed from being a financial crime to hurting people for profit,” said Thomas Fraysse, an Oakland attorney on the case. “It’s beyond unethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law firms in the Bay Area and Los Angeles plan to continue to file cases on behalf of people with counterfeit implants studding their backs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A contractor for Spinal Solutions, the firm accused of distributing the implants, and an attorney for the machine shop’s owner deny the allegations, saying it is impossible that the elderly machinist mass-produced the hardware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases revolve around spinal fusion surgeries, in which rods and screws are implanted in the back to relieve pain. The state’s workers’ compensation system long paid a premium for hardware used in the surgeries until a loophole was closed by recent legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest lawsuit accuses defendants of fraud and battery, saying the hardware has put the life of the patient, Arthur Golia of Riverside, at risk. Golia had seven counterfeit devices implanted in his spine, according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows a similar January case, which alleges that a Los Angeles man had medical implants from the mom-and-pop machine shop in Temecula put in his back in 2011. One of the screws broke, requiring David Solomon to undergo a second surgery in 2013. He has ongoing pain and loss of movement, the lawsuit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you break this down to the core of right and wrong, it really is using people as pieces of meat to make money,” said Santa Ana attorney Chris Purcell, who filed the Solomon case in Los Angeles Superior Court. “It’s horrifying to me that this could still happen in this day and age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate whistleblower lawsuit alleges that many of the patients with fake implants may not have needed the surgery at all. According to that May 2012 suit, they were the collateral damage of a massive scheme to defraud insurers, involving Drobot, former owner of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot admitted to paying doctors kickbacks of up to $15,000 to operate in his hospital. He also admitted to paying bribes to Calderon to protect a law allowing hospitals to bill insurance providers for the full cost of spinal implants. Calderon, a Montebello Democrat, has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges. Drobot’s sentencing is scheduled for December, according to news reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Golia, the plaintiff in the latest lawsuit, did not name Drobot as a defendant in their case but said their findings demonstrate the breadth of the graft surrounding the lucrative spine surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golia trusted his doctor to use medical implants approved by the Food and Drug Administration, his lawsuit states. Instead, the case alleges, Dr. Jack Akmakjian used counterfeit implants in Golia’s back because he was being paid a kickback to do so. Separately, the Medical Board of California accused Akmakjian in April of injecting unsafe amounts of steroids in patients and overprescribing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as Akmakjian’s office manager said there would be no comment. Parkview Community Hospital, where Golia was treated, did not respond to questions by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spinal Solutions LLC, a now-shuttered Murrieta company, is accused of distributing and inflating the cost of the hardware in the Golia lawsuit and the whistleblower claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm’s owner, Roger K. Williams, is accused of passing off the counterfeit rods and screws as FDA-approved even though they were made at the local tool shop. The case says Williams, his wife at the time and a key staffer hid or destroyed records that revealed the true origin of the hardware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams filed for bankruptcy last year, claiming $12.6 million in liabilities, including a plane, yacht and $50,000 Mercedes-Benz. The petition was rejected, court records say, in part because Williams failed to disclose his ownership of a second airplane and a second Harley-Davidson motorcycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach Williams were unsuccessful. Arnold Neves Jr., a former attorney for Spinal Solutions, said of the allegations, “I don’t know anything about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuits, Spinal Solutions asked William Crowder, owner of Crowder Machine & Tool of Temecula, to make the rods and screws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Mansor, an independent contractor who worked for Spinal Solutions and attended surgeries with their products, said the allegations sound “bogus.” Mansor said he went to Crowder’s machine shop for repairs on tools like screwdrivers. But he said Crowder didn’t have the equipment or capacity to churn out the spinal implants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The guy can barely even walk. ... They don’t have computerized machines,” he said. “To me, it doesn’t sound right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The machine shop is now closed and the owner, who used to make parts for sailboats, is in poor health, said Crowder’s lawyer, Alan Mohill. Crowder made only “prototypes” for Spinal Solutions and didn’t know how they would be used, Mohill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations are false,” he said. “He’s just a small little machine shop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowder sued Spinal Solutions last July, saying the firm owed him $29,900 “to machine, repair and prototype” tools for doctors. Crowder attached a one-year, $50,000 contract with the implant firm to his suit. Crowder won a judgment against Spinal Solutions because it did not respond to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Northcutt, chief executive of Aurora Spine in Carlsbad, said devices like rods and screws are relatively simple to make. But for them to be designated as surgical grade requires FDA approval, biomechanical tests and liability insurance that add to the costs. Northcutt said he briefly dealt with Spinal Solutions but found its products inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northcutt recalls seeing one Spinal Solutions representative pull up to a doctor’s office in a gleaming white Rolls-Royce and hearing that the company ferried its goods by private plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone knew something funny was going on,” Northcutt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA cited Spinal Solutions in 2012 for a variety of quality control violations. Last year, the agency announced that the company was recalling spinal implants because problems with the products “could cause patient harm due to implant breakage, movement, or inadequate sterilization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FDA spokeswoman said she could not comment on ongoing litigation or confirm the agency is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\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>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more, visit cironline.org. Jewett can be reached at cjewett@cironline.org, and Evans can be reached at wevans@cironline.org. Follow them on Twitter: @JewettCIR and @willCIR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/141135/california-doctors-used-fake-hardware-in-spine-surgeries-lawsuits-say","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_4475"],"featImg":"news_141138","label":"news_6944"},"news_138603":{"type":"posts","id":"news_138603","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"138603","score":null,"sort":[1402383718000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-ethics-rules-heal-thyself-state-senate","title":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate?","publishDate":1402383718,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119704\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-e1385954353186.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-119704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images). \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three state senators in exile. Three explosive allegations of political wrongdoing. And now, three new rules that leaders of the state Senate hope will change both behavior around the state Capitol and public perception of that behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is time, I believe, that we reserve out full and undivided attention to the people's business,\" said state Sen. Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) during floor debate on Monday on the trio of new standing rules for the upper house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the rules is simply part of the operating structure of the Senate; none apply to the Assembly, and none have to be signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. As such, they are not binding in the same way as a state law. However, they take effect almost immediately, and any effort to rescind them would likely be questioned and criticized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules ban senators from holding political fundraising in the month leading up to the June 15 budget deadline, establish whistle-blower protections for staffers or others who see wrongdoing and create the position of an independent Senate ombudsman to investigate ethics complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ombudsman, said Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), is \"somebody whose job it is to prevent a problem before it becomes embarrassing to the individual, and most importantly, before it becomes embarrassing to the institution itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153739882&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house rules come in the wake of the indictments of two senators — Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) and Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) — earlier this year on separate charges of political corruption. They also come after a large fine by the state's campaign finance watchdog agency against \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/02/sacramento-lobbyist-kevin-sloat-faces-133500-fppc-fine.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent lobbyist over political fundraisers hosted at his Sacramento home\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the measures \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sr_45_bill_20140514_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cautions senators from talking about pending legislation at parties or events\u003c/a> attended by interest group representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can do so very easily,\" said Steinberg during Monday's floor debate, \"by saying at the beginning of the event, 'There are certain things that we cannot talk about here at this event.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules formally take effect Aug. 1, which means that political fundraisers scheduled over the next few days are not affected. They also, as rules of the house, may be less vulnerable to legal challenges — most notably, the annual one-month fundraising ban and questions about the constitutional links between money and speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as senators agreed overwhelmingly to the new rules, they rejected a more stringent effort to curb fundraising. A bill to impose a campaign cash blackout in state law, authored by state Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima), fell short of the needed super-majority vote on Monday — with a handful of Democrats and Republicans declining to vote when the roll was called.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three new rules that leaders hope will change both behavior and perception around the state Capitol.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1402436095,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":476},"headData":{"title":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate? | KQED","description":"Three new rules that leaders hope will change both behavior and perception around the state Capitol.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate?","datePublished":"2014-06-10T07:01:58.000Z","dateModified":"2014-06-10T21:34:55.000Z","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":"138603 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=138603","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/10/new-ethics-rules-heal-thyself-state-senate/","disqusTitle":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate?","customPermalink":"06/10/2014/state-senate-adopts-new-ethics-rules/","path":"/news/138603/new-ethics-rules-heal-thyself-state-senate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119704\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-e1385954353186.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-119704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images). \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three state senators in exile. Three explosive allegations of political wrongdoing. And now, three new rules that leaders of the state Senate hope will change both behavior around the state Capitol and public perception of that behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is time, I believe, that we reserve out full and undivided attention to the people's business,\" said state Sen. Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) during floor debate on Monday on the trio of new standing rules for the upper house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the rules is simply part of the operating structure of the Senate; none apply to the Assembly, and none have to be signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. As such, they are not binding in the same way as a state law. However, they take effect almost immediately, and any effort to rescind them would likely be questioned and criticized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules ban senators from holding political fundraising in the month leading up to the June 15 budget deadline, establish whistle-blower protections for staffers or others who see wrongdoing and create the position of an independent Senate ombudsman to investigate ethics complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ombudsman, said Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), is \"somebody whose job it is to prevent a problem before it becomes embarrassing to the individual, and most importantly, before it becomes embarrassing to the institution itself.\"\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>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153739882&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house rules come in the wake of the indictments of two senators — Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) and Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) — earlier this year on separate charges of political corruption. They also come after a large fine by the state's campaign finance watchdog agency against \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/02/sacramento-lobbyist-kevin-sloat-faces-133500-fppc-fine.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent lobbyist over political fundraisers hosted at his Sacramento home\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the measures \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sr_45_bill_20140514_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cautions senators from talking about pending legislation at parties or events\u003c/a> attended by interest group representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can do so very easily,\" said Steinberg during Monday's floor debate, \"by saying at the beginning of the event, 'There are certain things that we cannot talk about here at this event.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules formally take effect Aug. 1, which means that political fundraisers scheduled over the next few days are not affected. They also, as rules of the house, may be less vulnerable to legal challenges — most notably, the annual one-month fundraising ban and questions about the constitutional links between money and speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as senators agreed overwhelmingly to the new rules, they rejected a more stringent effort to curb fundraising. A bill to impose a campaign cash blackout in state law, authored by state Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima), fell short of the needed super-majority vote on Monday — with a handful of Democrats and Republicans declining to vote when the roll was called.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/138603/new-ethics-rules-heal-thyself-state-senate","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_596","news_139","news_4475"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_134852":{"type":"posts","id":"news_134852","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"134852","score":null,"sort":[1399014116000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gov-brown-skeptical-of-more-affirmative-action-anti-corruption-laws","title":"Gov. Brown Skeptical of More Affirmative Action, Anti-Corruption Laws","publishDate":1399014116,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134867\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10148_WP_20140424_006.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-134867\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10148_WP_20140424_006-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown interviewed by KQED senior politics editor John Myers\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown is interviewed by KQED senior politics editor John Myers. (Monica Lam/KQED) \u003ccite>(Monica Lam, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown says he believes that some degree of additional affirmative action is needed in admissions to California colleges and universities, but that there are both substantial legal and political hurdles to making it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have to strive in whatever way we can, under existing law, to have a fair system of admissions,\" said Brown in a wide-ranging interview with KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's comments come both on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a ban on affirmative action in Michigan, and debate inside the California Legislature over a proposed ballot measure to reinstate the state’s affirmative action law — nixed by voters with \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Affirmative_Action,_Proposition_209_(1996)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 209\u003c/a> in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown expressed doubt on the effectiveness of new laws to curb political corruption, in the wake of a trio of scandals that have rocked the state Capitol over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he defended his administration's approach to fracking, a hotly debated method of oil drilling that uses high-pressure water to loosen underground oil deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also touched on the debate over a new state budget reserve fund, the debate over entrenched poverty in California, and his own style of politics and governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Easy Path for Expanded Affirmative Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he believes \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/opinion-analysis-affirmative-action-up-to-the-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">the April 22 ruling on the Michigan case\u003c/a> by the nation’s highest court \"shut the door\" on any kind of new or expanded racial preferences — unless those rules are enacted by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not at all clear that if you put it on the ballot, that it could be passed,\" he said in the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has long defended affirmative action policies, including during his time as attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that because of where we are in the gaps between the races, I think we need some degree of affirmative action,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor acknowledged the deep divisions that surfaced during \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2014/03/17/16109/affirmative-action-bill-sca-5-dead-for-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">the brief legislative debate over a proposed constitutional amendment to reinstate affirmative action\u003c/a> in higher education and contracting in California. But he characterized any effort to bridge that gap as \"chancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's never going to be perfect,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mojTnLUGo54&w=450&h=253]\u003c/div>\n\u003caside class=\"left long autowidth\">\n\u003ch3>Watch More of Gov. Brown's Interview\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPXbcY1uhw&w=300&h=169]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Regulation and Taxes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3qAgQHKC0I&w=300&h=169]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Keystone XL Pipeline\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If It's Done Too Directly, Then It's Called Bribery'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's skepticism over systemic change also extends to curbing corruption inside the halls of the state Capitol. Two state senators \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Senate-suspends-Calif-state-Sen-Leland-Yee-2-5357627.php\" target=\"_blank\">now face federal charges stemming from corruption stings\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/02/11/3488894/record-setting-fine-hits-sacramento.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent Sacramento lobbyist was fined\u003c/a> for holding political fundraisers at his home that included gifts beyond the limit allowed for legislators to accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every decade or so, there are scandals,\" said Brown. \"It's where you draw the line, and some people go over the line as it's drawn, and they get into trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also gave voice to what others have pointed out, and what legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-steinberg-huff-senate-ethics-20140423,0,6068362.story\" target=\"_blank\">have tried to explain to their colleagues\u003c/a>: the thin line between right and wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's done too directly, then it's called bribery,\" said Brown. \"If it's done a little less directly, then it's called corruption. If it's done even less directly, it's called influence. And if it's done even more remotely, I guess it's just the hurly-burly of American politics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Fights Back on Fracking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few issues have hounded Brown more among his base of environmental groups than fracking, the oil-drilling method that could be expanded in California to reach \u003ca href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/05/130528-monterey-shale-california-fracking/\" target=\"_blank\">a massive underground shale deposit\u003c/a> — a method some critics want banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hounding of the governor has been, at times, like a traveling protest show. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Fracking-exposes-rift-between-Jerry-Brown-5305168.php\" target=\"_blank\">\"Fracktivist\" groups have trailed him across the state\u003c/a> ever since last year's signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/21/us-usa-california-fracking-idUSBRE98K00C20130921\" target=\"_blank\">a law\u003c/a> to study fracking's effects while allowing it to continue under new regulations. He's been lobbied by interest groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9euQ0Pq99c\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood celebrities\u003c/a> and others to impose a fracking moratorium\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown defends the decision to study and regulate fracking as the right one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't heard a moratorium on driving,\" the governor said. \"Most of that is fed by petroleum. So if it doesn't come out of the ground in California, it's got to come on a boat or on a train. And that has pollution, has dangers. So we need a balance here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Stealth Re-election Campaign?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will first weigh in on June 2 as to whether to give Jerry Brown a record-setting fourth term. But expect to see the governor doing as little actual campaigning as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Brown seems poised to run a campaign that centers on governing, on staying out of the fray — regardless of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/29/6364951/radio-show-hosts-say-tim-donnelly.html\" target=\"_blank\">which Republican wins one of the two slots on the fall ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody wants change,\" said Brown. \"But we also like continuity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may not be a slogan that's necessarily ready for a political bumper sticker, but it's a theme that voters are likely to hear a lot of from Brown between now and Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tradition does have a value,\" he said, sitting in a chair in the parlor of the historic governor's mansion in Sacramento. \"I think it is good to view the present through the lenses of the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everybody wants change. But we also like continuity.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Brown (back left) pictured with his father, Gov. Pat Brown (seated left).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Pat Brown (seated left) pictured with his family, including Jerry Brown (back left) wearing a clerical collar. Brown attended a Jesuit seminary for three years, intent on becoming a Catholic priest. (Gov. Brown's office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The mansion, now \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=498\" target=\"_blank\">a state parks museum\u003c/a>, has become one of Brown's favorite haunts around the capital city. He's used it for private dinners with legislators and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/just-like-old-times-at-the-governor-s-mansion/article_f9eb446c-c073-11e3-a39b-0017a43b2370.html\" target=\"_blank\">to celebrate his birthday with cousins who hail from the rural areas around his family's ranch in Colusa County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find certain strength, orientation and clarity by thinking about where we came from,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, asked whether he'd offer specific ideas for voters considering whether to give him another term, led the conversation instead to his zeal for continuing to oversee policy changes already underway — from changes to the state budget process to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\" target=\"_blank\">2011's realignment of public safety\u003c/a>, and last year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcffoverview.asp\" target=\"_blank\">shift of education dollars\u003c/a> to focus on children from low-income or English-learner backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many ways, I'm looking at decentralization as a big idea,\" said Brown. \"And I want to manage it. I want to inspire good action at the local level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And invoking the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/16/opinion/la-ed-budget-california-spending-restraint-20130516\" target=\"_blank\">oft-stated Brown mantra of government limits\u003c/a> (a doctrine which doesn't, though, seem to apply in the case of public works projects like water conveyance and high-speed rail), the governor argues his job is not to simply create new rules and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The role of the governor can be as much persuasive as coercive,\" he said. \"Laws and taxes are coercive, but rhetoric and inspiration can be persuasive. And I want to balance those two powers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\"> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PnX_gu4sOk&w=560&h=315] \u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More of the conversation with Gov. Brown can be heard Friday afternoon on the weekly news magazine edition of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report\u003c/a>\" and seen Friday night on \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In wide-ranging interview, governor talks about the environment, political tradition and re-election.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1399325590,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":1296},"headData":{"title":"Gov. Brown Skeptical of More Affirmative Action, Anti-Corruption Laws | KQED","description":"In wide-ranging interview, governor talks about the environment, political tradition and re-election.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Gov. Brown Skeptical of More Affirmative Action, Anti-Corruption Laws","datePublished":"2014-05-02T07:01:56.000Z","dateModified":"2014-05-05T21:33:10.000Z","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":"134852 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=134852","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/02/gov-brown-skeptical-of-more-affirmative-action-anti-corruption-laws/","disqusTitle":"Gov. Brown Skeptical of More Affirmative Action, Anti-Corruption Laws","customPermalink":"Jerry+Brown+interview+affirmative+action+fracking+and+corruption/","path":"/news/134852/gov-brown-skeptical-of-more-affirmative-action-anti-corruption-laws","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134867\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10148_WP_20140424_006.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-134867\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10148_WP_20140424_006-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown interviewed by KQED senior politics editor John Myers\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown is interviewed by KQED senior politics editor John Myers. (Monica Lam/KQED) \u003ccite>(Monica Lam, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown says he believes that some degree of additional affirmative action is needed in admissions to California colleges and universities, but that there are both substantial legal and political hurdles to making it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have to strive in whatever way we can, under existing law, to have a fair system of admissions,\" said Brown in a wide-ranging interview with KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's comments come both on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a ban on affirmative action in Michigan, and debate inside the California Legislature over a proposed ballot measure to reinstate the state’s affirmative action law — nixed by voters with \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Affirmative_Action,_Proposition_209_(1996)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 209\u003c/a> in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown expressed doubt on the effectiveness of new laws to curb political corruption, in the wake of a trio of scandals that have rocked the state Capitol over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he defended his administration's approach to fracking, a hotly debated method of oil drilling that uses high-pressure water to loosen underground oil deposits.\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 governor also touched on the debate over a new state budget reserve fund, the debate over entrenched poverty in California, and his own style of politics and governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Easy Path for Expanded Affirmative Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he believes \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/opinion-analysis-affirmative-action-up-to-the-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">the April 22 ruling on the Michigan case\u003c/a> by the nation’s highest court \"shut the door\" on any kind of new or expanded racial preferences — unless those rules are enacted by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not at all clear that if you put it on the ballot, that it could be passed,\" he said in the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has long defended affirmative action policies, including during his time as attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that because of where we are in the gaps between the races, I think we need some degree of affirmative action,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor acknowledged the deep divisions that surfaced during \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2014/03/17/16109/affirmative-action-bill-sca-5-dead-for-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">the brief legislative debate over a proposed constitutional amendment to reinstate affirmative action\u003c/a> in higher education and contracting in California. But he characterized any effort to bridge that gap as \"chancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's never going to be perfect,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mojTnLUGo54'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mojTnLUGo54'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003caside class=\"left long autowidth\">\n\u003ch3>Watch More of Gov. Brown's Interview\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/KNPXbcY1uhw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KNPXbcY1uhw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Regulation and Taxes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/c3qAgQHKC0I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/c3qAgQHKC0I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Keystone XL Pipeline\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If It's Done Too Directly, Then It's Called Bribery'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's skepticism over systemic change also extends to curbing corruption inside the halls of the state Capitol. Two state senators \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Senate-suspends-Calif-state-Sen-Leland-Yee-2-5357627.php\" target=\"_blank\">now face federal charges stemming from corruption stings\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/02/11/3488894/record-setting-fine-hits-sacramento.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent Sacramento lobbyist was fined\u003c/a> for holding political fundraisers at his home that included gifts beyond the limit allowed for legislators to accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every decade or so, there are scandals,\" said Brown. \"It's where you draw the line, and some people go over the line as it's drawn, and they get into trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also gave voice to what others have pointed out, and what legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-steinberg-huff-senate-ethics-20140423,0,6068362.story\" target=\"_blank\">have tried to explain to their colleagues\u003c/a>: the thin line between right and wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's done too directly, then it's called bribery,\" said Brown. \"If it's done a little less directly, then it's called corruption. If it's done even less directly, it's called influence. And if it's done even more remotely, I guess it's just the hurly-burly of American politics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Fights Back on Fracking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few issues have hounded Brown more among his base of environmental groups than fracking, the oil-drilling method that could be expanded in California to reach \u003ca href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/05/130528-monterey-shale-california-fracking/\" target=\"_blank\">a massive underground shale deposit\u003c/a> — a method some critics want banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hounding of the governor has been, at times, like a traveling protest show. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Fracking-exposes-rift-between-Jerry-Brown-5305168.php\" target=\"_blank\">\"Fracktivist\" groups have trailed him across the state\u003c/a> ever since last year's signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/21/us-usa-california-fracking-idUSBRE98K00C20130921\" target=\"_blank\">a law\u003c/a> to study fracking's effects while allowing it to continue under new regulations. He's been lobbied by interest groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9euQ0Pq99c\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood celebrities\u003c/a> and others to impose a fracking moratorium\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown defends the decision to study and regulate fracking as the right one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't heard a moratorium on driving,\" the governor said. \"Most of that is fed by petroleum. So if it doesn't come out of the ground in California, it's got to come on a boat or on a train. And that has pollution, has dangers. So we need a balance here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Stealth Re-election Campaign?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will first weigh in on June 2 as to whether to give Jerry Brown a record-setting fourth term. But expect to see the governor doing as little actual campaigning as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Brown seems poised to run a campaign that centers on governing, on staying out of the fray — regardless of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/29/6364951/radio-show-hosts-say-tim-donnelly.html\" target=\"_blank\">which Republican wins one of the two slots on the fall ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody wants change,\" said Brown. \"But we also like continuity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may not be a slogan that's necessarily ready for a political bumper sticker, but it's a theme that voters are likely to hear a lot of from Brown between now and Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tradition does have a value,\" he said, sitting in a chair in the parlor of the historic governor's mansion in Sacramento. \"I think it is good to view the present through the lenses of the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everybody wants change. But we also like continuity.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Brown (back left) pictured with his father, Gov. Pat Brown (seated left).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Pat Brown (seated left) pictured with his family, including Jerry Brown (back left) wearing a clerical collar. Brown attended a Jesuit seminary for three years, intent on becoming a Catholic priest. (Gov. Brown's office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The mansion, now \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=498\" target=\"_blank\">a state parks museum\u003c/a>, has become one of Brown's favorite haunts around the capital city. He's used it for private dinners with legislators and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/just-like-old-times-at-the-governor-s-mansion/article_f9eb446c-c073-11e3-a39b-0017a43b2370.html\" target=\"_blank\">to celebrate his birthday with cousins who hail from the rural areas around his family's ranch in Colusa County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find certain strength, orientation and clarity by thinking about where we came from,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, asked whether he'd offer specific ideas for voters considering whether to give him another term, led the conversation instead to his zeal for continuing to oversee policy changes already underway — from changes to the state budget process to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\" target=\"_blank\">2011's realignment of public safety\u003c/a>, and last year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcffoverview.asp\" target=\"_blank\">shift of education dollars\u003c/a> to focus on children from low-income or English-learner backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many ways, I'm looking at decentralization as a big idea,\" said Brown. \"And I want to manage it. I want to inspire good action at the local level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And invoking the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/16/opinion/la-ed-budget-california-spending-restraint-20130516\" target=\"_blank\">oft-stated Brown mantra of government limits\u003c/a> (a doctrine which doesn't, though, seem to apply in the case of public works projects like water conveyance and high-speed rail), the governor argues his job is not to simply create new rules and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The role of the governor can be as much persuasive as coercive,\" he said. \"Laws and taxes are coercive, but rhetoric and inspiration can be persuasive. And I want to balance those two powers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\"> \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_PnX_gu4sOk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_PnX_gu4sOk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> \u003c/div>\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>\u003cem>More of the conversation with Gov. Brown can be heard Friday afternoon on the weekly news magazine edition of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report\u003c/a>\" and seen Friday night on \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/134852/gov-brown-skeptical-of-more-affirmative-action-anti-corruption-laws","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_1895","news_3605","news_30","news_139","news_765","news_4475"],"featImg":"news_134867","label":"news_6944"},"news_130825":{"type":"posts","id":"news_130825","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"130825","score":null,"sort":[1396031131000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-senate-votes-to-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright","title":"State Senate Votes to Suspend Yee, Calderon and Wright","publishDate":1396031131,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130826\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/pols.jpg\" alt=\"State Senators Ron Calderon (L) and Leland Yee. \" width=\"640\" height=\"361\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sens. Ron Calderon (L) and Leland Yee. (Manny Crisostomo/Getty Images and Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Marks and Scott Detrow\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:00 pm Friday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright to resign from office, saying it's the best way to \"restore public confidence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted Friday to suspend three Democratic members who are at the center of high-profile criminal cases. A resolution to suspend Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright, with pay, passed by a 28-1 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action comes two days after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\">federal agents arrested Yee\u003c/a> in connection with an investigation into corruption and firearms trafficking. Yee had refused a call from Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg to step down. Calderon \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/21/fbi-charges-california-lawmaker-in-widespread-corruption-case/\">faces federal corruption charges\u003c/a>, while Wright \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/06/125527/state-senator-roderick-wright-convicted-felon\">was convicted\u003c/a> of voter fraud and perjury earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'One is an anomaly. Two is a coincidence. Three?'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suspension prevents Calderon, Yee and Wright from exercising any power of office until the pending criminal cases against them have been resolved. Even so, they will continue receiving their $95,000 annual salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg acknowledged the seriousness of the series of corruption charges against members. \"One is an anomaly,\" he said. \"Two is a coincidence. Three?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said it would be satisfying to simply kick out members who are in legal trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I reluctantly conclude that what would be satisfying and popular would also run afoul of the most basic American principles of due process, and the idea that people are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,\" Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate president also announced the unprecedented step of canceling a floor session in April for a mandatory ethics review, with Senate officials going office by office to emphasize ethical conduct and ask staffers to come forward if they are aware of any potentially criminal activity by lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only senator to vote \"no\" on suspension was San Diego Republican Joel Anderson. He wants to see all three Democrats expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You propose to give them a Roman holiday by suspending all their ability to work for the people, but continue to pay them the people’s money?\" Anderson asked. \"You’re going down the wrong path. You’re wrong. You still believe that senators are above the law, and you’re wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Yee's lawyer released a brief statement on the Senate's vote. \"Suspension is the right step for now,\" attorney Paul DeMeester said, \"and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Friday, 18 of 25 defendants charged with Yee earlier this week appeared in federal court for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. Those scheduled to appear included Keith Jackson, a former school board member and Yee political consultant accused of arms trafficking, participating in a murder-for-hire scheme and corruption. Also appearing today: Raymond Chow, the purported leader of a suspected Chinatown gang infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is scheduled to be back in court Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Senate votes 28-1 for measure to sideline three Democratic members entangled in legal trouble. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1396052010,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":526},"headData":{"title":"State Senate Votes to Suspend Yee, Calderon and Wright | KQED","description":"Senate votes 28-1 for measure to sideline three Democratic members entangled in legal trouble. 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Ron Calderon (L) and Leland Yee. (Manny Crisostomo/Getty Images and Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Marks and Scott Detrow\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:00 pm Friday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright to resign from office, saying it's the best way to \"restore public confidence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted Friday to suspend three Democratic members who are at the center of high-profile criminal cases. A resolution to suspend Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright, with pay, passed by a 28-1 vote.\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 action comes two days after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\">federal agents arrested Yee\u003c/a> in connection with an investigation into corruption and firearms trafficking. Yee had refused a call from Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg to step down. Calderon \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/21/fbi-charges-california-lawmaker-in-widespread-corruption-case/\">faces federal corruption charges\u003c/a>, while Wright \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/06/125527/state-senator-roderick-wright-convicted-felon\">was convicted\u003c/a> of voter fraud and perjury earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'One is an anomaly. Two is a coincidence. Three?'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suspension prevents Calderon, Yee and Wright from exercising any power of office until the pending criminal cases against them have been resolved. Even so, they will continue receiving their $95,000 annual salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg acknowledged the seriousness of the series of corruption charges against members. \"One is an anomaly,\" he said. \"Two is a coincidence. Three?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said it would be satisfying to simply kick out members who are in legal trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I reluctantly conclude that what would be satisfying and popular would also run afoul of the most basic American principles of due process, and the idea that people are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,\" Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate president also announced the unprecedented step of canceling a floor session in April for a mandatory ethics review, with Senate officials going office by office to emphasize ethical conduct and ask staffers to come forward if they are aware of any potentially criminal activity by lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only senator to vote \"no\" on suspension was San Diego Republican Joel Anderson. He wants to see all three Democrats expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You propose to give them a Roman holiday by suspending all their ability to work for the people, but continue to pay them the people’s money?\" Anderson asked. \"You’re going down the wrong path. You’re wrong. You still believe that senators are above the law, and you’re wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Yee's lawyer released a brief statement on the Senate's vote. \"Suspension is the right step for now,\" attorney Paul DeMeester said, \"and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Friday, 18 of 25 defendants charged with Yee earlier this week appeared in federal court for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. Those scheduled to appear included Keith Jackson, a former school board member and Yee political consultant accused of arms trafficking, participating in a murder-for-hire scheme and corruption. Also appearing today: Raymond Chow, the purported leader of a suspected Chinatown gang infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is scheduled to be back in court Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/130825/state-senate-votes-to-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_596","news_425","news_139","news_5689","news_4475","news_95"],"featImg":"news_130826","label":"news_6944"},"news_130790":{"type":"posts","id":"news_130790","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"130790","score":null,"sort":[1396021664000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"money-talks-the-fbis-bribe-strategy-in-yee-calderon-cases","title":"Money Talks: The FBI's Bribe Strategy in Yee, Calderon Cases","publishDate":1396021664,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9446_photo-lpr-e1395851647607.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9446_photo-lpr-e1395851647607-640x580.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials outside Sen. Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials outside Sen. Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>KQED's Scott Detrow reports that the s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\">tate Senate has voted 28-1\u003c/a> to suspend Democratic Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright, due to a variety of criminal charges. Yee's attorney, Paul F. DeMeester, issued a statement that said, \"Suspension is the right step for now, and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Eighteen of 26 defendants named in a federal criminal complaint, which includes allegations of corruption and weapons trafficking against state Sen. Leland Yee, will appear in federal court this morning for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. The defendants scheduled to appear this morning include former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, implicated in a murder-for-hire scheme, and Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the purported leader of a San Francisco gang whose organization was infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is not scheduled to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>----\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI raids are on their way to becoming a state Capitol ritual. On Wednesday morning, FBI agents carted boxes of documents out of state Sen. Leland Yee’s offices. Hours later, the San Francisco Democrat sat in federal court, hearing the seven corruption and weapons-trafficking charges he faces. (C\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\">lick here to read\u003c/a> an annotated copy of the federal charges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, federal prosecutors announced charges against Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles area. The FBI raided his office last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When public officials choose to callously betray the trust of the people they serve, and selfishly line their pockets, then it’s up to us to take the steps responsible to make sure we hold these individuals accountable,” said U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte when he announced Calderon’s indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And federal agents have certainly been taking a lot of those steps lately. The two cases feature numerous agents going undercover, posing as shady businessmen and movie producers and bribing lawmakers for official favors. Yee allegedly delivered Senate proclamations, set up meetings with other legislators and made calls to state agencies on behalf of the undercover agents — in addition to allegedly participating in a scheme to help an undercover agent buy weapons. Calderon allegedly pushed to lower a film tax credit threshold he thought would help an agent posing as an independent film producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day agents raided Calderon's office, Yee warned an associate to “be really, real careful. Got to double check, triple check everything.” Unfortunately for Yee, federal agents were listening in on that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, the FBI spent nearly $70,000 bribing Yee. And the FBI says it delivered nearly $90,000 to Calderon. Here's a breakdown of the payments described in the complaints against the two senators:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alleged Payments To Yee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Amount\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Date\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Description\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Alleged Quid-Pro-Quo\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Page\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$500\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/21/2011\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>None stated\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>104\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10/11/2011\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>None stated\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>105\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4/27/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Help for software company\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>108\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$10,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>11/19/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash for Yee's mayoral campaign\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>None stated\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>24\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$2,500\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/20/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Introductions to other lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>123\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4/29/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Introductions to other lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>126\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>5/6/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Secretary of State campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Senate Proclamation\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>25\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>5/17/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Introductions to other lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>128\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$11,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>6/22/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Introductions to other lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>25\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$1,800\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>7/11/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Secretary of State campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Senate Proclamation\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>25\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$10,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/17/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Introductions to other lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>25\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10/13/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>None stated\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>105\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12/17/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Secretary of State campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>International weapons purchases\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>81\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$1,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/24/2014\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>International weapons purchases\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>85\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alleged Payments To Calderon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Amount\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Date\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Description\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Page\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Alleged Quid-Pro-Quo\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>7/19/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>8/1/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/8/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/28/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$4,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10/30/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>VIP Las Vegas table reservation for Calderon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>51 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>11/1/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>11/20/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Tuition check for Calderon's son\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>72 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12/1/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12/6/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon-requested campaign contribution to Kevin de Leon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>57 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/1/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$25,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Payment to Calderon-tied nonprofit\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>15 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,900\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>75 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,200\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/9/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>76 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/26/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash to Calderon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>62 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/27/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$9,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4/18/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of sting operations can generate criticism — that the FBI is setting lawmakers up or even wasting taxpayer dollars. Former agent James Wedick said Thursday he disagrees with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without those operations you’re not going to find out that you’ve got corrupt individuals doing bad things — stealing money from the public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedick ran \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-11/magazine/tm-24021_1_undercover-agent\" target=\"_blank\">the “Shrimp Scam” investigation\u003c/a> in the 1980s. FBI agents bribed state lawmakers into carving out tax breaks for their phony shrimp company and creating legislation that actually made it to Gov. George Deukmejian’s desk. “At that time we needed to inform him that the two measures were bogus and it was an FBI operation,” Wedick recalled. “He … could not believe it.” Deukmejian vetoed both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>False fronts and FBI-initiated bribes are necessary, Wedick argues, because there’s typically little or no evidence when actual bribes take place. “The conversations, if there are conversations about payments of monies, are usually one-on-one. And so without the kind of evidence where a conversation is heard, it’s one person’s word against another’s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for scrutiny, he says these public corruption investigations don’t move forward without scores of meetings with higher-ups at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The stakes are high — the agents are tinkering with public policy and can ruin careers even if they never bring any charges. On top of that, Wedick says the bureau is mindful that legislative sting operations boil down to “one branch of government, the executive branch, messing with, as you say, another branch of government. The executive branch naturally does not want to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s arrest came on the same day the FBI raided a New York legislator’s office and arrested the mayor of Charlotte, N.C. Wedick says the agency may be giving more attention to corruption issues, after a decade focused on terrorism threats. Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg agrees. “It may well be that the FBI now feels it needs to get back to more of its conventional law enforcement, and can do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg adds the FBI may have other motivations in going after lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something attractive, and I don’t mean this in any critical way, about political corruption cases,” he said. “They get great visibility. The facts are usually quite clear. The law isn’t complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The FBI spent nearly $160,000 bribing California Senators Leland Yee and Ron Calderon. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1396044089,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1451},"headData":{"title":"Money Talks: The FBI's Bribe Strategy in Yee, Calderon Cases | KQED","description":"The FBI spent nearly $160,000 bribing California Senators Leland Yee and Ron Calderon. 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Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials outside Sen. Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>KQED's Scott Detrow reports that the s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\">tate Senate has voted 28-1\u003c/a> to suspend Democratic Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright, due to a variety of criminal charges. Yee's attorney, Paul F. DeMeester, issued a statement that said, \"Suspension is the right step for now, and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Eighteen of 26 defendants named in a federal criminal complaint, which includes allegations of corruption and weapons trafficking against state Sen. Leland Yee, will appear in federal court this morning for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. The defendants scheduled to appear this morning include former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, implicated in a murder-for-hire scheme, and Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the purported leader of a San Francisco gang whose organization was infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is not scheduled to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>----\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI raids are on their way to becoming a state Capitol ritual. On Wednesday morning, FBI agents carted boxes of documents out of state Sen. Leland Yee’s offices. Hours later, the San Francisco Democrat sat in federal court, hearing the seven corruption and weapons-trafficking charges he faces. (C\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\">lick here to read\u003c/a> an annotated copy of the federal charges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, federal prosecutors announced charges against Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles area. The FBI raided his office last June.\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>“When public officials choose to callously betray the trust of the people they serve, and selfishly line their pockets, then it’s up to us to take the steps responsible to make sure we hold these individuals accountable,” said U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte when he announced Calderon’s indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And federal agents have certainly been taking a lot of those steps lately. The two cases feature numerous agents going undercover, posing as shady businessmen and movie producers and bribing lawmakers for official favors. Yee allegedly delivered Senate proclamations, set up meetings with other legislators and made calls to state agencies on behalf of the undercover agents — in addition to allegedly participating in a scheme to help an undercover agent buy weapons. Calderon allegedly pushed to lower a film tax credit threshold he thought would help an agent posing as an independent film producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day agents raided Calderon's office, Yee warned an associate to “be really, real careful. Got to double check, triple check everything.” Unfortunately for Yee, federal agents were listening in on that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, the FBI spent nearly $70,000 bribing Yee. And the FBI says it delivered nearly $90,000 to Calderon. Here's a breakdown of the payments described in the complaints against the two senators:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alleged Payments To Yee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Amount\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Date\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Description\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Alleged Quid-Pro-Quo\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Page\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$500\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/21/2011\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>None stated\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>104\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10/11/2011\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>None stated\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>105\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4/27/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Help for software 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lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>128\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$11,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>6/22/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Introductions to other lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>25\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$1,800\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>7/11/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Secretary of State campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Senate Proclamation\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>25\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$10,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/17/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Introductions to other lawmakers\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>25\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10/13/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mayoral campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>None stated\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>105\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12/17/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Secretary of State campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>International weapons purchases\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>81\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$1,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/24/2014\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>International weapons purchases\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>85\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alleged Payments To Calderon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Amount\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Date\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Description\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Page\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Alleged Quid-Pro-Quo\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>7/19/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>8/1/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/8/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>9/28/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$4,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10/30/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>VIP Las Vegas table reservation for Calderon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>51 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>11/1/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>11/20/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Tuition check for Calderon's son\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>72 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12/1/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$5,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12/6/2012\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon-requested campaign contribution to Kevin de Leon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>57 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/1/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$25,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Payment to Calderon-tied nonprofit\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>15 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,900\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>75 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,200\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/9/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>76 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/26/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Cash to Calderon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>62 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/27/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$9,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4/18/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of sting operations can generate criticism — that the FBI is setting lawmakers up or even wasting taxpayer dollars. Former agent James Wedick said Thursday he disagrees with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without those operations you’re not going to find out that you’ve got corrupt individuals doing bad things — stealing money from the public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedick ran \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-11/magazine/tm-24021_1_undercover-agent\" target=\"_blank\">the “Shrimp Scam” investigation\u003c/a> in the 1980s. FBI agents bribed state lawmakers into carving out tax breaks for their phony shrimp company and creating legislation that actually made it to Gov. George Deukmejian’s desk. “At that time we needed to inform him that the two measures were bogus and it was an FBI operation,” Wedick recalled. “He … could not believe it.” Deukmejian vetoed both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>False fronts and FBI-initiated bribes are necessary, Wedick argues, because there’s typically little or no evidence when actual bribes take place. “The conversations, if there are conversations about payments of monies, are usually one-on-one. And so without the kind of evidence where a conversation is heard, it’s one person’s word against another’s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for scrutiny, he says these public corruption investigations don’t move forward without scores of meetings with higher-ups at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The stakes are high — the agents are tinkering with public policy and can ruin careers even if they never bring any charges. On top of that, Wedick says the bureau is mindful that legislative sting operations boil down to “one branch of government, the executive branch, messing with, as you say, another branch of government. The executive branch naturally does not want to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s arrest came on the same day the FBI raided a New York legislator’s office and arrested the mayor of Charlotte, N.C. Wedick says the agency may be giving more attention to corruption issues, after a decade focused on terrorism threats. Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg agrees. “It may well be that the FBI now feels it needs to get back to more of its conventional law enforcement, and can do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg adds the FBI may have other motivations in going after lawmakers.\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>“There’s something attractive, and I don’t mean this in any critical way, about political corruption cases,” he said. “They get great visibility. The facts are usually quite clear. 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