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FYI: Leland Yee Is Out Of State Custody Next Month
The disgraced ex-senator leaves his halfway house.
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Leland Yee Sentenced To Five Years For Corruption
Gun control advocate Leland Yee was sentenced today to five years in prison during court proceedings Wednesday in a case that District Judge Charles Breyer referred to the defendant as “hypocritical.” Yee was elected to the position of Senator in California back in 2006 after his run as assemblyman of the state’s 12th district. Prosecutors charged Yee in 2014 after an undercover FBI sting revealed the Senator had not only promised votes and influential positions in return for campaign contributions, but also offered to introduce a client to an arms dealer who could illegally smuggle weapons into the country supplied by a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines, including shoulder-fired missiles.
In the months following his arrest, the California Senate adopted resolutions banning members from accepting contributions from fundraising during critical months, appointed an ethics ombudsman, and instituted new protocols protecting whistle-blowers.
During his time as an assemblyman for California’s 12th district, Yee sponsored the 2005 law AB 1179, banning the sale of violent games to minors and imposing strict fines on retailers for each violation. The law was challenged in district court and shut down by Judge Whyte, ruling that the law violated first amendment protections of free speech. The ruling was challenged in California’s 9th District Court of Appeals, who ruled against the law due to its obscure definition of “violent.” California challenged the 9th District’s ruling, taking the case up to the Supreme Court where in 2011, Supreme Court Justices ruled 7-2 against the state.
(Source: LA Times)
[Less Massive] Anti-Gamer Senator Leland Yee Off To Prison
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)
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