[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.
He's right. Double his sentence!
"In the 67 years of my life, I have devoted much of it to the work of the community, to people here in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...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.
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It's not hypocritical, he approves of guns for his people. Just not for our people. It's a perfectly consistent position.
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
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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 ?
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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.
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Wikileaks is like a pack of rats. If you leave your food out where they can get it, they will. You can blame the rats all you want but it's no excuse for not keeping the food in secure storage.
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See the look on Podesta's face in the first picture at the link? She's an idiot and he knows it. What he doesn't know is that he's an idiot too.
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[AA.TR] A joint session of Congress on Friday certified Electoral College returns, cementing Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... as the country’s president-elect.
The proceedings were largely symbolic. Trump had received well more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure the office when electors met last month in their state capitals.
Some Democrats, however, objected to the proceedings Friday, but were denied action by Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... who oversaw the session as President of the Senate.
"It's over," he said as Democrats pointed to long lines at polling stations, and alleged Russian interference in this presidential election.
The final tally put Trump at 304 Electoral College votes. His challenger, Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... , received 227.
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I love the fact that Biden literally brought the hammer down on those idiots.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Surely there must be some way Philippine President Roberto Durante can assist with this burdensome and costly incarceration. 
Gray bar hotel resident Raymond Chow Kwok-cheung 
[AA.TR] A joint session of Congress on Friday certified Electoral College returns, cementing 
Joe 
Hillary Clinton
