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A bay area politician accused of corruption and gun trafficking. Right now state senator yee is back home and bond after being arrested and charged in a massive corruption investigation. Good evening. Im carolyn johnson. Im dan ashley. The other Major Players in the scandal Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow a gangster and a political consultant. Cornell be. Arms deals, bribery and corruption. This criminal complaint reads like a spy novel and one of the bay areas highest ranking politicians was a key player. The charges are pretty serious. What do you have to say . He walked out of federal court with nothing to say to reporters. He jumped in a waiting car and sped away. Yee was arrested early today at his home and taken to federal court where he was charged with weapons trafficking and public corruption and soliciting money for political favors. The criminal complaint charges 26 people including infamous chinatown gangster who was charged with Money Laundering and dealing in stolen property. The
A bay area politician accused of corruption and gun trafficking. Right now state senator yee is back home and out on bond after being arrested and charged in a massive corruption investigation. Good evening. Im carolyn johnson. Im dan ashley. The other Major Players in the scandal Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow a gangster and a political consultant. Cornell bernard has more. Arms deals, bribery and corruption. This criminal complaint reads like a spy novel and one of the bay areas highest ranking politicians was a key player. The charges are pretty serious. What do you have to say . He walked out of federal court with nothing to say to reporters. He jumped in a waiting car and sped away. Yee was arrested early today at his home and taken to federal court where he was charged with weapons trafficking and public corruption and soliciting money for political favors. The criminal complaint charges 26 people including infamous chinatown gangster who was charged with Money Laundering and dealing in
Contra costa district after one of the teachers is accused of molesting students. The school board voted to change district policy to ensure fenger prints and background checks for new hires and rehires and substitute teachers and School Principals will conduct extra you training. Ron ginto was fired after molestation allegations surfaced, but then landed a job at mira vista elementary without a background check because he worked there before. He was arrested earlier this month and faces 28 felony counts. New video from washington state. A Helicopter Rescue team shows the exact moment a 4yearold boy was plucked from the mudslide alive last saturday. You can see the chopper descending to a debris pile where a rescuer is seen pulling the boy from the muck which witnesses say was like quicksand. Jacobs sisters and brother ages 2 to 13 are still missing along with his father. Jacobs mother was at work when the mudslide hit and is okay. The Helicopter Rescue team was training 25 miles south
After a fiveyear investigation into gun running, drugs and Money Laundering. Federal agents swept yees home and office. And at least three other locations in this corruption bust. Our news crews were at all of those locations. We have Team Coverage this evening for you, starting with abc News Reporter, vic lee. Reporter the fbi hit the chinatown headquarters of the chinese free masons. They were looking for evidence linked to the arrest of notorious former gangster, norman chow. Chow serves as a chairman of the free masons. He was arrested at his home on height street. He is charged with Money Laundering and dealing in stolen property. He had served 22 years in the federal pen on a racketeering conviction. Once released, he became active in chinatown politics. In this interview with abc 7 news six years ago, he said he was a reformed man. Im up front, to face up to all of the past i have done. And to try to correct my life. Reporter but the big fish was state senator leland yee. Yee wa