In a lengthy criminal complaint (pdf), Senator Leland Yee, a high-profile California proponent of gun control, allegedly used campaign money "in exchange for facilitating deal with arms dealer and Chinatown gangsters."
Complaint alleges @LelandYee took campaign $ in exchange for facilitating deal with arms dealer and Chinatown gangsters
— mlagos (@mlagos) March 26, 2014
Sen @LelandYee tied to $-laundering, gun-running, murder-for-hire scheme, per @FBISanFrancisco gun in this affidavit http://t.co/sicrnu0nKO
— Henry K. Lee (@henryklee) March 26, 2014
Complaint says @LelandYee told informants he wouldnt participate in #paytoplay but "never walked away from quid pro quo requests"
— mlagos (@mlagos) March 26, 2014
All of this was done with undercover FBI agents offering donations in exchange for favors.
@mlagos All with undercover FBI agents -- offering campaign donations in exchange for official favors.
— Robert Gammon (@RobertGammon) March 26, 2014
Meanwhile, at Leland Yee's Sunset District home, FBI seized at least a dozen computers and other evidence.
. @FBISanFrancisco agents just hauled nearly two dozen computers and evidence envelopes out @lelandyee's home: pic.twitter.com/Z3Mp9witRT
— Will Kane (@WillKane) March 26, 2014
Early Wednesday, Senator Leland Yee was arrested Wednesday during a series of raids by the FBI in Sacramento and in San Francisco. Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow and former school board president Keith Jackson were also arrested.
Previously: Oh No, Leland Yee: 'Shrimp Boy' Arrested, Jaws Of Life Brought In
Oh No, Leland Yee: Arrested!
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