Tag: Anti-Gaming

Former California State Senator Leland Yee this week pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering in the San Francisco federal court. Yee admitted to accepting bribes in return for favors, including ten thousand in return for assisting in obtaining a state grant, eleven grand to meet with another state senator to discuss legislation, extorting money in return for favorable votes, and conspiring to purchase weapons from the Philippines and sell them illegally in the United States.

“Senator Yee’s admission of guilt today brings some measure of justice to the true victims of his crimes: the people of the state of California,” said David J. Johnson, FBI Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Field Office.

Yee become an antagonist of the gaming industry ten years ago when he authored the 2005 bill to ban the sale of ultra-violent video games in California, a bill which was struck down by the Supreme Court. After the Sandy Hook massacre, Yee took further shots at the gaming community and industry at large.

“Gamers have got to just quiet down,” Yee, D-San Francisco, said in an interview Tuesday. “Gamers have no credibility in this argument. This is all about their lust for violence and the industry’s lust for money. This is a billion-dollar industry. This is about their self-interest.”

Incidentally, Leland Yee is a strong supporter of gun control, presumably including the ones he planned to sell after smuggling them illegally from the Philippines.

(Source: Justice.gov)