Former California state senator Leland Yee sentenced to five years in prison

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

A federal judge sentenced former California state senator Leland Yee on Wednesday to five years in prison after he acknowledged accepting thousands of dollars in bribes and discussing helping an undercover FBI agent buy automatic weapons from the Philippines.

Prosecutors had recommended that senior district court judge Charles Breyer impose an eight-year sentence, saying that would reflect the extent of Yee’s crimes.

Yee’s attorneys had called for no more than five years and three months behind bars, saying Yee had a history of public service and his wife was ill.

“The crimes that you committed have resulted in essentially an attack on democratic institutions,” Breyer said during the hearing.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/24/california-leland-yee-five-years-prison-bribes-weapons-philippines

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Associated Press in San Francisco
Wednesday 24 February 2016 20.18 GMT

[Eleanors38]

1. His years of "public service" included bills to restrict/ban guns. Didn't like the competition.

On edit: I noticed the news source -- viruently anti 2A -- mentioned NOTHING about his leadership role to ban and control civilian weapons. So VERY, VERY typical of the media bias on gun issues seen in MSM.

[vlakitti]

2. Good

We need a lot more sentences for corruption, and there seems to be a lot of it in San Francisco city politics.

[Duckhunter935]

3. another hypocrite

Good place for him

[olddots]

4. just the tip of his ice berg

read the article this guy got off with a very light sentence .

[deurbano]

5. Sad he took this very dark path. He was responsive to families of children with disabilities when

he served on the Board of Education in San Francisco. That set him apart from many others we had to deal with when TRYING to get our daughter and other students the services/support/access they needed.

[olddad56]

6. how much time would a minority kid from a bad neighborhood get for breaking the law..

to the tune of thousands of dollars.

This guy should get more time because he betrayed the public's trust, rather than any leniency because he was a public servant.

Maybe life in prison for any sort of corruption by someone holding a high level public position would cause them to think twice.

[pablo_marmol]

7. News cameras exposed him grinning ear-to-ear........

........while his attorney described him as remorseful. You betcha.



His AA co-conspirator was sentenced to 9 years. Who wants to bet me that the hotels of each of our criminals will have roughly similar amenities?