{"id":16249,"date":"2014-04-08T22:09:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=16249"},"modified":"2014-04-08T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:09:17","slug":"state-senator-arrested-for-involvement-in-arms-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/state-senator-arrested-for-involvement-in-arms-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"State Senator Arrested for Involvement in Arms Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well-known California democrat legislator Leland Yee was indicted along with 28 others for various crimes, including corruptions and conspiring to traffic in firearms, local authorities reported.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The Senator, who until recently was running to become the democrat candidate for the election of California Secretary of State, was accused by a San Francisco Grand Jury last Friday, April 4.<\/p>\n

Leland Yee was arrested along with 28 others on Wednesday, March 26 in series of raids carried out by different agencies led by the FBI, accused of accepting bribes and corruption, among other charges, and is linked with the delivery of at least $42,800 dollars in campaign contributions an FBI agent gave to one of his assistants.<\/p>\n

Besides these accusations, the democrat Senator has been accused of participating in official acts in exchange for $70,000 which were given to him by undercover FBI agents.<\/p>\n

Yee, who is 65 years old, plead not guilty to these accusations and was set free after bail was set at $500,000 dollars; however, if he’s found guilty, he might face a sentence of over 100 years in prison and over half a million dollars in fines.<\/p>\n

After the accusations against Senator Yee were revealed, various representatives of the Democratic Party in California have asked him to resign, according to a series of emails sent to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Rhys Williams, spokesman of democrat leader Darrel Steinberg wrote that “Senator Steinberg renews his demand for Senator Yee to resign, and to resign immediately.”<\/p>\n

The California State Senator, who was suspended with pay since he was arrested, is the third California legislator to be arrested in 2014.<\/p>\n

Democrat legislators Ron Calderon and Rod Wright, accused in two different charges of accepting bribes, corruption, money laundering and other charges, have severely damaged the organization of their party in California, which has lost two thirds of the legislative majority in the Senate in a single electoral year.<\/p>\n

Lee will plea that he was entrapped by the FBI.<\/p>\n

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