Gray bar hotel resident Raymond Chow Kwok-cheung 'Shrimp Boy Chow' leader of the Ghee Kung Tong and Clinton money bundler linked to gun runner Sen. Leland Yee ?Probably nothing more than a coincidence.
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| Ex-Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee, gun control champion, heading to prison for weapons trafficking | |
| 2017-01-07 | |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] This Wednesday, Yee received a five-year prison sentence for accepting bribes and trafficking in arms. After initially denying culpability, Yee pleaded guilty to the charges last summer. "I hope that in your sentencing of me, you will look at my entire life and not just these crimes I have committed," the senator implored U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... and in the state of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,." Yee added that he was most ashamed to have hurt his family and supporters: "That will always weight on me, and that will always haunt me for the rest of my life." Breyer was unsympathetic to the calls for leniency. While holding public office, Yee had accepted thousands of dollars in campaign contributions in exchange for political favors. And on the side, he and two associates had been involved in a weapons trafficking plot. These acts were discovered by undercover federal agents investigating organized crime in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Jackson, a former school board president who helped Yee facilitate the bribes, received a nine-year sentence. "It must be that the public has trust in the integrity of the institution, and Mr. Yee, you abused that trust," Breyer said, according to the Times. He called Yee’s actions "vile" and the arms dealings particularly "hypocritical" given the politician’s history of gun control advocacy. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Congratulations, #6 Jiggs! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-01-07 20:42 |
| #6 Interesting story with a moral. We both started our political careers at the same time, running for the SF Charter Reform Committee in the late '70's. He won and he's in prison, I didn't and I'm not. |
| Posted by: Jiggs Omaique4417 2017-01-07 12:01 |
| #5 Gray bar hotel resident Raymond Chow Kwok-cheung 'Shrimp Boy Chow' leader of the Ghee Kung Tong and Clinton money bundler linked to gun runner Sen. Leland Yee ? Probably nothing more than a coincidence. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-07 11:40 |
| #4 He should be heading for the gallows. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-01-07 08:24 |
#3  Surely there must be some way Philippine President Roberto Durante can assist with this burdensome and costly incarceration. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-07 03:21 |
| #2 From wikipedia buying automatic firearms and shoulder-launched missiles from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an Islamist extremist group located in the southern Philippines and attempting to re-sell those weapons to an undercover FBI agent 5 years appears light for what he did. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-01-07 03:02 |
| #1 It's not hypocritical, he approves of guns for his people. Just not for our people. It's a perfectly consistent position. |
| Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 2017-01-07 00:06 |