Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. On on the fence tonight is San Franciscos mayor and other city leaders accused of taking bribes. Accusations coming from attorneys in a high profile corruption case. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. The lawyers say mayor ed leigh and a happenedful of happenedful of handful of officials are making accusations. He says he ran a Clean Campaign and accusations are warrantless. Attorneys for the former chinatown ringleader say prosecutors should drop all charges against their client. They say he is a victim of selective prosecution indicted for corruption while city leaders like San Francisco mayor ed lee walked away unscathed. Curtis briggs is one of his attorneys. He sat down with federal agents undercover. He took money from them. His staff took money from them. He was supposedly knowledge knowledgeable about what the money was for. They were one of the staffers who told an undercover agent you pay to play here. We got it, we know this.
But anyone can help a foster child. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. On on the fence tonight is San Franciscos mayor and other city leaders accused of taking bribes. Accusations coming from attorneys in a high profile corruption case. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. The lawyers say mayor ed leigh and a happenedful of happenedful of handful of officials are making accusations. He says he ran a Clean Campaign and accusations are warrantless. Attorneys for the former chinatown ringleader say prosecutors should drop all charges against their client. They say he is a victim of selective prosecution indicted for corruption while city leaders like San Francisco mayor ed lee walked away unscathed. Curtis briggs is one of his attorneys. He sat down with federal agents undercover. He took money from them. His staff took money from them. He was supposedly knowledge knowledgeable about what the money was for. They were one of the staffers who told an undercover agent you pay to
Unscathed. Curtis briggs is one of his attorneys. He sat down with federal agents undercover. He took money from them. His staff took money from them. He was supposedly knowledge knowledgeable about what the money was for. They were one of the staffers who told an undercover agent you pay to play here. We got it, we know this. We are the best at this game. Better than new york. We do it a little more sophisticated than new yorkers and we do it without the mofia. The mayor himself denies wrongdoing. He was trying to get off on trial, mr. Raymond chow and he is doing everything he can. He will take it with a grain of salt that he will do what he can. The court filing also accuses the reverend to pay to play. Now david chu is mentioned, but not for corruption. He is said to have helped the fbi by wearing a body wire while attempting to provoke chow to threatening him. We just spoke to the assemblyman. The fbi asked him to take part in the investigation. After he made repeated threats. Cho
Bryce williams on the air. He died this afternoon after shooting himself. Lets begin team coverage. Reporter it was supposed to be a light morning assignment. Alison parker in front of the camera, photo journalist adam ward behind it when a gunman opened fire. 24yearold parker and 27yearold ward were killed as colleagues and viewers watched on tv. People behind us in the news room crying. Reporter Vicki Gardner seriously injured. Police zeroed in on Vester Flanagan aka Bryce Williams. Flanagan later died at the hospital from a selfinflicted gun shot wound. Flanagan called abc news and sent a letter explaining the Charleston Church shooting was his tipping point. Our investigators have a copy of it and its use in the course of this investigation will be continuing. Reporter parkers boyfriend, a wbdj anchor tweeted we were very much in love. We just moved in together. I am numb. Today her colleagues were going to celebrate a new job before the two moved away to start a new life together.
Both from the area were doing a live interview with a local tourism official when they were shot and killed on live television. The shooter later identified as 41yearold Vester Flanagan, a former wdbj employee fired years ago and went by the name Bryce Williams on air. Flanagan fled the scene. At 11 00 they found his gray mustang at the roanoke airport and he was later tracked by authorities in another car on i81 before finally being located on i66 in faquier county where authorities tried to pull him over. The car went off the road and he shot himself and died at Inova Fairfax hospital. Now part of the investigation will include a lengthy letter sent by flanagan to abc news where he expresses anger about the Charleston Church shooting calling himself a powder keg ready to go boom. It goes to show where the gentlemans minds was the night before or what was taking place there that there was forethought given to the chain of events that would happen. Jeff the sheriff says it was unknown