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LA WATCHDOG On November 7, 2018, the FBI raided the home and offices of Councilman Jose Huizar.
Since that time, the U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged nine individuals in connection with its ongoing criminal investigation into the pay-to-play corruption scandal enveloping Los Angeles City Hall. But we have seen very little, if any, effort to address this cancer and its underlying symptoms, in large part because of lack of political will on the part of Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Attorney Mike Feuer to take on the most corrupt City Council in the history of Los Angeles.
On Monday, the first shoe dropped as former City Councilman Mitch Englander was sentenced to 14 months in jail (no doubt a Club Fed, not hard time) and a $15,000 fine in connection with his guilty plea in March to one count of scheming to falsify material facts. But this felon, who betrayed the public’s trust, deserved a much harsher sentence: three years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and the forfeiture