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LA City Councilors are the highest paid in the nation Credit: Graphic by Lisa Lewis<\/p>\n
A slew of scandals have rocked L.A.\u2019s City Hall in recent years. <\/p>\n
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In March 2020, former District 12 Councilmember Mitch Englander was hit with a federal indictment saying he accepted $10,000 in cash, upscale Vegas trips and the services of an escort in a pay-to-play scheme while in City Hall. He was hit with a 14-month sentence.<\/p>\n
In June 2020, District 14 Councilman Jos\u00e9 Huizar was also charged in that case. Federal prosecutors asserted that the duo had helmed a criminal operation so brazen the feds labeled it the \u201cCD-14 Enterprise.\u201d Huizar, whose own brother was slated to testify against him at trial, pleaded guilty in January 2023. In 2024, a disgusted federal judge sentenced him to 13 years behind bars, saying that his crimes had \u201cthe real potential to destroy the delicate fabric of our democracy\u201d and cause the public \u201cto disengage in the democratic process\u201d and \u201cgive up all hope of participating\u201d with the government.<\/p>\n
In 2023, District 10 Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas was convicted on seven federal felony bribery and fraud charges. Prosecutors say Ridley-Thomas demanded that the former dean of the USC Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Marilyn Flynn, provide his son with admission to a master\u2019s program, a full-tuition scholarship and a paid professorship \u2014 a charge he staunchly denies as he continues to fight his conviction with an appeal.<\/p>\n
Price was charged last spring in a state corruption case and has maintained his innocence while retaining his City Council seat, which he will term out of in November. He is expected back in court on Oct. 16 for a pretrial hearing where a date is expected to be set for his trial. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The embattled politician is charged with felony public corruption charges including embezzlement of public funds, perjury and financial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21980,13534,53107,66086,48,52,51,47,5436,98310,50,49,170767,54758,6826],"class_list":["post-429089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-corruption","tag-curren-price","tag-embezzlement","tag-jose-huizar","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-city-council","tag-los-angeles-county-superior-court","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mark-ridley-thomas","tag-mitch-englander","tag-nathan-hochman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}