{"id":475175,"date":"2026-09-25T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475175\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:28:59","slug":"former-santa-clara-county-undersheriff-pleads-guilty-in-bribery-scheme-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475175\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Santa Clara County undersheriff pleads guilty in bribery scheme \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A political corruption scandal in the South Bay has concluded with a felony conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Former Santa Clara County Undersheriff Rick Sung pleaded guilty to two felony bribery charges, admitting that he ran a pay-to-play scheme out of the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Sung weaponized his power by trading highly coveted, rarely issued concealed weapons permits for luxury corporate perks.<\/p>\n<p>The bribes included hundreds of Apple iPads and access to a luxury suite for San Jose Sharks games at the SAP Center.<\/p>\n<p>The guilty plea closes an eight-year corruption probe that led to several convictions and forced former Sheriff Laurie Smith out of office.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the resolution, Sung must complete 400 hours of community service and permanently surrender his California law enforcement badge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A political corruption scandal in the South Bay has concluded with a felony conviction. Former Santa Clara County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,198],"class_list":["post-475175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475175","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=475175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}