This is what comes from one party rule
SAN FRANCISCO — State Sen. Leland Yee, a prominent figure in California’s Democratic legislative majority, was arrested in a federal corruption investigation Wednesday along with an ostentatious gangster known as “Shrimp Boy” — who insisted that he had gone straight — and two dozen of their alleged associates.
An affidavit filed in federal court in San Francisco by FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua said there was probable cause to believe that Yee had conducted wire fraud and had engaged in a conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and illegally import firearms.
Firearms? You don’t say!
The affidavit paints a portrait of Yee that is by turns seedy and bumbling, and one deeply at odds with the high-minded image he had long cultivated. Yee, a candidate for secretary of state, is accused of being willing to take varied and numerous steps to solicit campaign donations and sidestep legal donation limits.
For instance, he is accused of seeking an official state Senate proclamation in the spring of 2013 praising the Ghee Kung Tong Freemason lodge in San Francisco. Yee sought the proclamation, according to the court complaint, in exchange for a $6,800 donation to one of his campaigns — a donation that was paid by an undercover FBI agent.
The organized crime figure known as Shrimp Boy, whose name is Raymond Chow, identifies himself as the “dragon head” of that Freemason organization on his Facebook page. The indictment says that Chow, 54, whose criminal history includes racketeering and robbery, has a position of “supreme authority” in the Triad, an international organized crime group. […]
The affidavit says that in August 2013, a prominent California political consultant who had been working to raise money for Yee’s campaigns told a prospective donor — an undercover federal agent — that Yee “had a contact who deals in arms trafficking.”
In exchange for campaign contributions, according to the affidavit, Yee would “facilitate a meeting with the arms dealer” so that the donor could buy a large number of weapons. The firearms would be imported through a port in Newark, N.J. At one meeting, the affidavit said, Yee and the prospective donor discussed “details of the specific types of weapons.”
Yee marks the third Democrat state senator to fall to corruption charges.
Senate leader Darrell Steinberg has already refused to kick out Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright least he lose his super majority and all the sweet sweet dictatorial power; can he cobble together an excuse not to oust Yee, if Yee refuses to resign?
Ah California! Chicago of the West.
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Chutzpah: Senator Yee: NRA’s Gun Proposal is Pathetic and Unacceptable
A criminal organization masquerading as a political party.
Obviously Yee wanted all those guns in America to be sold in the Third World.
I wonder if he was in the loop re Fast & Furious?
. . . Ghee Kung Tong Freemason lodge . . .
I knew it.
Can you kill clinical depression with a shoulder-launched RPG?
Just askin’ for a political friend of mine.
Yee-haw.
The guns were to be purchased from Islamic “rebels” in the Philippines shipped to New Jersey and then for some of them to be then sold to people in an unnamed North African country.
Yee, man of conscience.
A conscience for sale.
But we know just what is really to blame. As Democrat candidate for California Sec of State, Derek Cressman explains:
Yep, the problem with our politics is that too many of those citizen-people are involved. Just get those nasty people out of politics and let the professionals get on with running things as they see fit and all will be well.
Greetings:
At the risk of appearing critical, what, pray tell, would a “Tong” be without its hatchet-men ???
And where was Charlie Chan and all his numbered sons while this was going on.
And Dearest Darrell (Steinberg, that is), a true lover of his fellow man, has called for State Senator Yee to resign almost immediately. Mr. Steinberg does not care for that type of sin in his most pristine of Senates.
So he was working hard to ban legal fire arms sales to eliminate the competition.
Wonder how those “gun safety” gun-grabbers are going to deal with it?
OK, they and the MSM will pretend it never happened, but this should be brought up to rebut every “gun safety” advocate. Are the children safer when only Leland Yee’s customers have guns, or when law-abiding citizens have guns to defend themselves and their families from Yee’s crminal customers?
“The constant begging for campaign cash clearly has a corrosive effect on a person’s soul and the only solution is to get big money out of our politics once and for all.”
How assbackwards.
When the Civil Rulers, either in Sacramento or DC, hold the power of life or death over the serfs, now the serfs are blamed for trying to make nice nice with the guy holding the axe?
Clearly the FBI was aware that “Shrimp Boy” and his gang were running guns and roped the innocent(ish) Senator into their web.
refusing to support the Democratic budget proposal in 2011 because of its deep cuts to education, social services and education.
So nice he named it twice.
Ah California! Chicago of the West.
It’s looking more like Pakistan than Chicago to me.
Chicago.
If California had more senators like Mr. Yee, they wouldn’t have the budget problems they do. They finally get a politician who knows how to turn a buck and they arrest him.
The constant begging for campaign cash clearly has a corrosive effect on a person’s soul and the only solution is to get big money out of our politics once and for all
That’s funny, when I find something has a corrupting influence on me I reject it.
Derek. Derek Cressman. The Crass man. Makng
copiesthe case for plutocracy!Time to Break Out the RICO Statute and Break Up the Democrats:
Sounds like a good idea to me…
is shrimp boy a dog whistle?
And it gets worse in the details.
So, is anyone ready to say that Yee’s a Chi-Com operative?
And the MILF have their peace and piece.
Nice country you have there, we’ll just nibble a bit of it for now.