Shrimp boy chow and keith jackson,. One man not surprised is lawyer stew handlynn. That was eds manhattanor. Ed was brought in to mentor by leland he is talking about ed jew. He was just released from prison after serving nearly five years for extortion and bribery convictions jew says state senator yee has been guilty of the same financial crimes for which he was convicted. He taught him how to raise money. A red envelope. Putting pressure on people to give you money. He says he sat in on the meet g meetings about sentenced agreed toni cooperate with the government. And u. S. Attorney decided they werent interested. Impression i got is that Public Service included a way to get money. They gave you money, you helped them. That is what he learned from yee jew served his sentence, he faces more time in jail on his state conviction. For lying about where he lived he was arrested and booked on char charges vic lee, abc7 News State Senate responded by voting to suspend him along with two ot
The Senate Suspended a lawmaker at the center of a corruption scandal. Good evening. Charges of influence pedalling and aiding a gun running conspiracy ended the political career of leland yee of San Francisco. Abc7 news confirmed another disgraced plying ratted on senator yee early on. Supervisor ed jew. Vic, tell us what youve learned today. People here in this neighborhood are talking about their neighbor and we spoke to one person who knocked on the door back there. He said he came here in support of the senator because of the good things he did for the city. But a former supervor says he knows the senators dark side. Another figure was arrested. Marlon sullivan. A wellknown sports agent, taken into custody, charged with drug, and weapons trafficking and murder for hire. Senator yee left his home this afternoon, in a car driven by his son he was released wednesday after making bond. He had no Court Hearing today, half a dozen others made appearances including former chinatown gang
And lockheed loves him. Intel building a 7 billion plant in arizona that they took off the shelf during the obama years. So, yeah, lots to talk about. Thanks to hugh and our guests. That was the scene from a town hall earlier tonight with arkansas senator tom cotton. The mood is indicative of what were seeing at town halls across the country. We have news tonight from this new administrations continued Whiplash Pattern of radical changes in course. Tonight the Justice Department, which is now led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that they are reversing the Obama Administration policy on the rights of transgender students in american schools. We have known that the white house intended to roll back lgbt rights. We thought they might first take aim at kids. Weve been waiting all day for the official notice. Here it is. Very high turnout election. It was an unusually long ballot in montana this year, because they had a bunch of stuff to vote on in the state, but all in all, usu
On the ballot in all of those races. The last election in which mike fellows ran was this last one we held in november. Montana is one of seven states in the country that has only one member of congress for the whole state. Every state has two u. S. Senators, but there are seven states in the country that have such small populations they only have one representative in the house, and montana is one of those states, current member of congress is republican congressman ryan zinke. This past November Mike fellows ran as the libertarian candidate against ryan zinke for congress, and nobody thinks that mike fellows had a shot at unseating this incumbent congressman, but it still had a really big political impact on the state of montana, when mike fellows unexpectedly died in the leadup to the election. Only 59 years old, he was driving home from a Campaign Event on a monday night in september, he got into a headon car crash, and mike fellows died, led to a lot of kind tributes to him in mon
House, and montana is one of those states, current member of congress is republican congressman ryan zinke. This past November Mike fellows ran as the libertarian candidate against ryan zinke for congress, and nobody thinks that mike fellows had a shot at unseating this incumbent congressman, but it still had a really big policaimpact on the state of montana, when ke fellows unexpectedly died in the leadup to the election. Only 59 years old, he was driving home from a Campaign Event on a monday night in september, he got into a headon car crash, and mike fellows died, led to a lot of kind tributes to him in montana from people across the state, people across the ideological spectrum. But one of the practical nuts and bolts and indeed financial consequences of mike fellows dying right before that election, after he had qualified for the libertarian line on the ballot in that Congressional Election is that it cost counties across montana a lot of money for that election. Theres a law in