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2 days ago · In January 2023, former Los Angeles city council member Jose Huizar pleaded guilty to extorting $1.5 million from real estate developers seeking city approval for downtown projects between 2013 and 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported. Another former Los Angeles city council member, Mark Ridley-Thomas, was sentenced to 42 months in prison last ...
8 hours ago · Seven years ago, California’s Supreme Court declared broad support for the historic right of voters to make law through the initiative process. Ruling in a case dubbed “Upland,” the court said that while governments are subject to voter-approved constitutional restraints on raising taxes, tax ...
4 days ago · Corruption by Mark Ridley-Thomas (D) led to issues with District 10’s representation District 12 is the only one held by a non-Democrat in the city. Mitchell Englander was the only Republican (and non-Democrat) on the council when he was re-elected unopposed in 2015, but stepped down to enter the private sector in 2018 (he was later convicted ...
4 days ago · There was also the 2021 indictment of suspended Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas for his participation in the University of Southern California (USC) kickback scheme for which he was found guilty of seven charges, including “conspiracy, bribery, honest services mail fraud and honest services wire fraud.”
4 days ago · HCIDLA Mark Ridley-Thomas Constituent Service Center is located in Los Angeles County of California state. On the street of Vermont Avenue and street number is 8475. To communicate or ask something with the place, the Phone number is (866) 557-7368.
4 days ago · On Friday, a federal court judge in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer, denied Mark Ridley-Thomas’s motion to dismiss his guilty verdict that came forth from a jury in late March 2023.
3 days ago · Mark Ridley-Thomas’ guilty verdict in Los Angeles in March 2023 was like Jon Woods’ guilty verdict in Santa Ana in August 2022. Both were for fraud and bribery. Ridley-Thomas was a highly successful and popular Los Angeles politician, and a recent City Councilman; and Woods was a veteran workers’ compensation applicants’ attorney.
