Breaking: Ex-aide to L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar to plead guilty in ‘pay-to-play’ bribery scheme
Esparza is the fourth person in the City Hall corruption case to agree to plead guilty
In the Chiang filing, prosecutors said the councilman had been leading a criminal enterprise that relied on bribes and other illegal acts. Three years ago, federal investigators served a search warrant on Google to obtain correspondence contained in the email address “[email protected].” The search yielded hundreds of relevant messages, according to court records.that sought evidence of possible crimes including bribery, extortion and money laundering. The warrant, which became widely known more than a year ago, did not say that investigators had gathered evidence of criminal activity by those individuals.
“As Huizar’s special assistant,” he said in a statement at the time, “I was in one of the best positions to see how the council member wielded his political power in ways in which, while he apparently had normalized, I did not feel aligned with how I wanted to live my political and personal life.
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