Showing posts with label Leland Yee Gun Trafficking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leland Yee Gun Trafficking. Show all posts
Friday, April 11, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
By Scott Shackford, Apr. 1, 2014, Reason.com
A politician honored for his gun control
efforts is arrested for attempted arms smuggling. He held press
conferences denouncing violent video games and helped pass legislation in
California prohibiting sales of such games to minors. And yet, secretly, he was
living the life of a Grand Theft Auto character.
The downfall of Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee of
San Francisco should be an utterly captivating, fascinating story, and the
national media should be sinking its teeth into the details. I joked when Yee
was first arrested
about how he is destined to be parodied in Grand Theft Auto. That was
before the FBI’s report was even released. Now, I’m convinced the report could
be the outline for an entire Grand Theft Auto installment (have they set
a game in a parody of San Francisco yet?). Yee’s story of corruption, attempted
gun-running and accusations of vote-selling (an undercover FBI agent posing as
a medical marijuana clinic owner wanted him to support legislation introducing
new barriers to entry for potential competition) is actually just a small part
of a larger story about the crime scene in San Francisco. Beyond Lee’s role,
the whole story
(pdf) is full of drug transactions, stolen booze fencing, a home invasion by
apparently Mexican gangsters, what appears to be counterfeit credit cards
supplied by a Russian hacker, and more. It has everything. There’s even a
money-laundering scene that takes place inside a massage parlor. It’s
part FBI report, part Hollywood pitch
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
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By Tom Blumer, Mar. 29, 2014, Newsbusters
It's no secret that the folks who run the New
York Times are big fans of gun control. It turns out that they also favor
controlling the use of the word "gun" in headlines about Democrats.
Over at National Review's Campaign Spot
yesterday, regarding the news of Democratic California Senator Leland Yee's
arrest, Jim Geraghty
noted: "The New York Times greeted that news with a one
paragraph summary on page A21 Wednesday with the headline:
'California: State Senator Accused of Corruption.'" That A21
one-paragrapher is an AP item. According to a long AP report
on Yee's arrest, Yee, a longtime gun control advocate himself, is charged with
"six counts of depriving the public of honest services and one count of
conspiracy to traffic in guns without a license." In addition to
burying the story in its back pages, let's look at what the Times did to the
AP's original headline:
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| Source: NRA / Granite Grok |
Disgraced California state Sen. Leland Yee
is the new poster boy in a social-media ad campaign released Thursday by the National Rifle
Association.
The San Francisco Democrat, who is under pressure to resign after
his arrest on corruption and conspiracy charges, is featured in a newly posted
ad touting his A+ rating in 2006 by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The irony, of course, is that Mr. Yee
was arrested Wednesday by the FBI
in a sting operation along with an organized-crime figure known as Shrimp Boy
on charges related to dealing firearms without a license and illegally
exporting firearms.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
By Huffington Post, Mar. 26, 2014
California state Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) -- one of the state's strongest advocates for gun control -- was arrested Wednesday on charges that include scheming to defraud citizens of honest services and conspiracy to illegally traffic firearms.
Yee, 65, was seized at his home during a string of raids that capped an FBI public corruption probe. The San Francisco investigation focused on Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, who federal authorities said is the leader of Chee Kung Tong, or CKT, a social organization involved in what an FBI affidavit calls "criminal enterprise." FBI agents discovered during the investigation that Yee and his political consultant, Keith Jackson, 49, were involved with Chow and his associates at CKT, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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