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    spek amercan

    i don spek no foren
    i know you can spek a mary can like a h0m0marsheeian
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    Bawang on a bus followed around by Spazman

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    An update

    To get back on topic here...
    Bay Area News Group prevails in final ruling on Yee, Calderon calendars
    By Matthew Artz
    martz@bayareanewsgroup.com

    Posted: 06/04/2015 04:24:25 PM PDT
    Updated: about 12 hours ago

    SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate must turn over key calendar information for two suspended senators, a Sacramento Superior Court judge has ruled, upholding a lawsuit filed by Bay Area News Group, publisher of this newspaper, and Los Angeles News Group.

    Following up on a tentative ruling issued last month, Judge Michael Kenny wrote that the public's interest in seeing the records kept by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco and Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello -- both of whom are facing criminal prosecution -- outweighed the Senate's interest in keeping the records private.

    "The disclosure of the calendars may indicate whether others were aware of the activities, or whether the legislators worked to hide the purpose of the meetings and identities of those with whom they were meeting," Kenny wrote.

    A spokeswoman for Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León wrote, "The Senate plans to fully comply with the judge's order," but she would not comment on whether the Senate would appeal the ruling.

    An appeal would likely delay release of records.

    Kenny's ruling, issued Tuesday and released Thursday, is seen as a major victory for transparency in Sacramento, where legislators have relied on a 1991 court ruling and the Legislative Open Records Act to argue that their calendars are exempt from public disclosure.

    "To get calendars is huge," BANG's attorney, Duffy Carolan, said. "And it really is a warning shot to public officials that their calendars are not sacrosanct. And that who they are meeting with and what they are doing on the public dime when wrongdoing is involved can't be kept from the public."

    Yee has been charged with public corruption, racketeering and weapons trafficking, and Calderon has been indicted on 24 counts, including public corruption, mail fraud, wire fraud, bribery and money laundering.

    A BANG reporter and a LANG reporter filed a series of separate public requests in April and June 2014 asking for records corresponding to dates and individuals noted in federal indictments of the two suspended politicians. The Senate Rules Committee denied all of them.

    In his final ruling, Kenny granted the newspapers Yee's and Calderon's calendar entries for specific dates mentioned in the criminal indictments. He also granted access to calendar entries over the course of three years pertaining to meetings with people who were indicted alongside Yee and Calderon, but denied access to meetings with people not indicted.

    Kenny also denied access to requests for emails or expense reports concerning Yee's meetings with top campaign donation solicitors or requested expense reports from Yee. However, he did order the release of records that reflect proof of expenditures and travel by Calderon to Miami, Carolan said.

    Kenny ordered attorneys for both sides to meet and catalog the documents that must be handed over.

    While not all records were deemed public, First Amendment Coalition Executive Director Peter Scheer said that the ruling could have broad implications, including forcing the Legislature to also stop withholding documents that are connected to noncriminal misconduct.

    "It's a significant win for access, and it's a significant loss for the legislative leadership and their lawyers," he said.

    The state Legislature had claimed that the public interest was best served by not releasing the records, arguing that communications from private citizens carry a special "legislative privilege."

    David Roberti, who led the Senate from 1980 to 1994, praised Kenny for trying to balance two competing interests, but said he was worried that the ruling would limit communication between legislators and their constituents, who wouldn't want their concerns made public. "It hinders the right to petition your government because there is the possibility that everyone will know you are doing it," he said. "It might only be for one day, but that is the kind of thing that could blossom out quite easily."

    Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.
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    Seeking trial delay

    Trial delays are a common tactic by the defense as the ****her away from the crime the trial is, the less likely that the verdict will be guilty.

    Former California Sen. Leland Yee seeks trial delay
    Former state senator arrested last year on corruption charges
    Ongoing production of evidence is ‘daunting,’ Yee’s attorney says


    Former state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, at a press conference in February 2013. | Randall Benton The Sacramento Bee file

    By Alexei Koseff
    akoseff@sacbee.com

    Former state Sen. Leland Yee is seeking a delay in the start of his upcoming trial on charges related to public corruption, illegals arms dealing and racketeering.

    In a filing on Tuesday evening, the San Francisco Democrat said the continuing introduction of “significant” new evidence into discovery would make it difficult to prepare by the Aug. 10 trial date.

    The “amount of documentary evidence, body wire and consensual call records, and wiretap recordings is monumental and the production is ongoing,” Yee’s attorney, James A. Lassart, wrote. “Analyzing the discovery (that continues to be produced by the government) is daunting.”

    Yee was arrested last year for allegedly trading favors to help retire his campaign debts. He has pleaded not guilty to the litany of charges, including accepting money to influence medical marijuana legislation and offering to facilitate an international arms deal, for which he faces up to 165 years in prison and as much as $2.25 million in penalties.

    Yee’s trial was previously delayed in March by seven weeks, from June 22 to Aug. 10. A separate corruption trial for former Sen. Ron Calderon was also recently postponed by more than six months.
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    On the front page of today's SF Chronicle

    Change of plea. Cutting a deal perhaps?

    Ex-Sen. Leland Yee may be headed for a plea deal
    By Bob Egelko Updated 7:30 pm, Tuesday, June 30, 2015


    Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle
    Former state Sen. Leland Yee leaves the Federal Building in San Francisco after a bond hearing in 2014. Yee, who has denied all charges, is free on bail.

    Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who until now has denied charges of political corruption, money laundering and racketeering, is scheduled to change his plea in federal court Wednesday.
    A federal judge has calendared change-of-plea hearings for Yee and three co-defendants who had been scheduled to go to trial Aug. 10. Such hearings are held to enable criminal defendants to plead guilty, usually after negotiations with the prosecutor.
    The other defendants are former San Francisco school board President Keith Jackson, who served as a consultant and fundraiser for Yee; Jackson’s son Brandon; and sports agent Marlon Sullivan.
    Defense lawyers could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Abraham Simmons, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, declined to comment.
    Yee, D-San Francisco, was arrested March 26, 2014, and initially was charged with accepting $62,000 in bribes from FBI agents posing as contributors in exchange for legislative favors. The favors included voting for several bills, setting up a meeting for an agent who posed as a medical marijuana supplier and agreeing to illegally import firearms from the Philippines.
    He is also accused of agreeing with Keith Jackson to use Yee’s unsuccessful campaigns for San Francisco mayor in 2011 and for California secretary of state last year, as “racketeering enterprises” to collect illicit contributions.
    Another federal grand jury indictment in January added money-laundering charges, alleging that Yee and Keith Jackson had tried to conceal the source of bribes the senator allegedly received for arranging a meeting between a purported donor and another lawmaker, and for smuggling guns. They were accused of accepting $11,000 from an undercover agent in June 2013 to set up the meeting, and of trying to cover their tracks by soliciting $12,600 in campaign contributions from three unidentified donors and paying them back in cash. They were also charged with accepting $6,800 from another agent in March 2014 as part of the gun-running agreement.
    Keith Jackson was separately charged with conspiring to arrange a murder for hire, an alleged plot against a fictitious victim set up by an FBI agent.
    Several of the charges are punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Actual sentences are usually much lower, especially for those without previous criminal records.
    Still, in view of the seriousness of the accusations and Yee’s position in public office, “it’s hard to believe that it won’t involve several years of prison time,” said Robert Weisberg, a Stanford criminal law professor.
    The most common reasons for a pretrial plea agreement, Weisberg said, are that “the prosecutor’s offering something they hadn’t offered before, or the defendant ran out of options for trial strategy.” With multiple defendants, he said, it’s also common for some to agree to testify against others in exchange for a reduced sentence.
    Yee, now free on bail, was suspended by the state Senate after his arrest. His Senate term expired in January. He also suspended his campaign for secretary of state.
    Also charged, and facing a separate trial, are two dozen other defendants, including Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, a former gang leader in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He is accused of running an established Chinese American community organization, the Ghee Kung Tong, as a racketeering enterprise that trafficked in drugs, weapons and stolen goods.
    Yee was not accused of taking part in any crimes with Chow, but the charges against the former legislator include winning passage of a Senate resolution honoring Chow’s organization in exchange for a bribe. Federal prosecutors said Keith Jackson, an associate of Chow’s, was the link between Chow and Yee.
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    He is accused of running an established Chinese American community organization, the Ghee Kung Tong, as a racketeering enterprise that trafficked in drugs, weapons and stolen goods.
    As an officer of the Ghee Kung Tong, i state very clearly, the allegation in respect to GKT being a criminal enterprise is absolutely FALSE.
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    Guilty

    Again, front page of the SF Chron today.

    We'll see how this plays out for Chow, hskwarrior. Yee might have given up more as part of the plea deal.

    Former state Sen. Leland Yee pleads guilty in corruption case
    By Bob Egelko and Evan Sernoffsky Updated 7:09 pm, Wednesday, July 1, 2015


    Leland Yee rushed to get into a waiting car as he left the Federal building in San Francisco. Yee pleaded guilty Wednesday July 1, 2015 to charges of racketeering and admitting he accepted bribes. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle

    Former state Sen. Leland Yee faces years in federal prison after admitting Wednesday that he took bribes from undercover FBI agents in exchange for promises to vote on legislation, arrange meetings for his purported donors, and illegally smuggle guns from the Philippines.

    The longtime public official — who only last year was a candidate for California secretary of state — pleaded guilty to a felony charge of using that short-lived campaign as a “racketeering enterprise” to solicit funds from agents who posed as contributors.

    In his plea agreement, filed in federal court in San Francisco, Yee, 67, said he had agreed to “conduct ... the affairs of the campaign through a pattern of racketeering activity.” He said his transactions with the agents took place between October 2012 and March 2014 and netted him $34,600.

    The charge is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Yee’s plea agreement did not recommend a specific sentence. But a plea agreement signed by his former consultant and fundraiser, Keith Jackson, who admitted to the same charge, called for a prison term of between six and 10 years. Jackson, 50, is a former San Francisco school board president.

    Convicted racketeers must also forfeit all ill-gotten gains. Yee agreed to relinquish $33,466 that the government seized during its investigation. He will also lose his right to vote during any time he spends in prison or on supervised release, the federal equivalent of parole.

    U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer will have the final word on sentencing at a hearing scheduled Oct. 21. Also pleading guilty Wednesday, to a separate racketeering charge, were Jackson’s son Brandon and sports agent Marlon Sullivan.

    All four had been scheduled to go to trial Aug. 10 in the first of several trials stemming from a five-year undercover investigation that led to a wide-ranging corruption indictment by a federal grand jury. Two dozen defendants are awaiting trial, including Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, a former gang leader in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

    Chow’s camp vows to fight

    Chow is accused of running an established Chinese American community organization, the Ghee Kung Tong, as a racketeering enterprise that trafficked in drugs, weapons and stolen goods. Chow’s lawyers have vowed to fight the charges, which they say were manufactured by the FBI.

    Prosecutors bolstered their accusations against Chow’s organization Wednesday in the plea agreements signed by Brandon Jackson and Sullivan, both of whom pleaded guilty to taking part in a racketeering conspiracy with the Ghee Kung Tong.

    While some members of the organization were “strictly involved ... in legal functions,” both men said, others were involved in such activities as drug dealing, robbery, extortion, illegal gun possession and murder for hire.

    Neither Brandon Jackson nor Sullivan is likely to repeat those allegations at Chow’s trial, however. None of the four plea agreements requires the defendants to testify or cooperate with the prosecutors, an unusual omission in a case with multiple defendants.

    Yee was not accused of taking part in any crimes with Chow. But the former senator admitted accepting a $6,800 bribe from a purported campaign contributor to sponsor a Senate resolution honoring the Ghee Kung Tong, which one of Yee’s staffers presented at an event in March 2013. Prosecutors said undercover agents encountered Yee through Keith Jackson, who was also an associate of Chow’s.

    Yee, who remains free on bail, had no comment after leaving court Wednesday. Two defense lawyers spoke up, however, saying the FBI was at least partly responsible for their clients’ actions.

    “The FBI started by hiring Mr. Jackson and paying him money to do perfectly lawful things,” said Keith Jackson’s lawyer, James Brosnahan. “They also promised great wealth. After they had done that, they began to embroil him in the matter that brings him to his plea.

    “What authorized them to come into the Bay Area and do what they did? Is this government doing what we want them to do? My answer is no.”

    Brandon Jackson’s lawyer, Tony Tamburello, said federal agents went about “ensnaring this young man.”

    Yee’s guilty plea marked the downfall of a veteran politician who spent 26 years in elected office. After his arrest March 26, 2014, he suspended his campaign for secretary of state, but nevertheless finished third in the June primary, with more than 9 percent of the vote. He was also suspended by his state Senate colleagues for the remainder of his legislative term, which ended in January.

    Yee ran unsuccessfully for mayor of San Francisco in 2011. Prosecutors said Yee was trying to pay off the debt from his mayoral campaign with the money he solicited from undercover agents.

    A child psychologist by training, Yee was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Education in 1988 and was the board’s president during the second of his two terms. He won election to the Board of Supervisors from the Sunset District in 1996 and left in the middle of his second term to run successfully for the Assembly, where he was part of the Democratic leadership team. He won the first of his two Senate terms in 2006.

    Yee’s record as a legislator included sponsorship of legislation banning the sale of violent video games to minors, a law that was later ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also known as an advocate of open government and of gun control.

    But one of the allegations he admitted Wednesday was agreeing to illegally import weapons, including automatic firearms, from the Philippines in a March 2014 meeting with Jackson, an undercover agent and another defendant, the now-deceased Wilson Lim. The agent paid him $6,800 in cash, Yee said.

    He also acknowledged that, in exchange for purported contributions, he arranged a meeting between a donor and another senator to discuss marijuana legislation; agreed to recommend another donor’s software company for a state contract; and promised to vote for legislation restricting California workers’ compensation payments to injured National Football League players.

    Some charges tossed

    As part of Wednesday’s plea agreements, prosecutors dismissed additional charges against the defendants, including money-laundering charges against Yee and Keith Jackson and an allegation that Jackson agreed to commit a murder for hire against a fictitious victim concocted by the FBI. The alleged murder plot resurfaced in Brandon Jackson’s plea agreement, which said an agent posing as a drug dealer told the younger Jackson, his father and Sullivan in December 2013 that he needed to have an associate killed.

    Two months later, Brandon Jackson said, the agent met with him and Sullivan at a San Francisco restaurant and asked them not to kill the victim in the agent’s presence. The two “assured (the agent) that would not happen,” Jackson said.

    Bob Egelko and Evan Sernoffsky are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: begelko@sfchronicle.com and esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @egelko and @evansernoffsky
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    Greetings,

    It is all about real estate and all the monies that can be made with it, baybeeeee.

    There is a feral need to break the tongs for that to happen; so, to do that, let's color them all bad.



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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing View Post
    Trial delays are a common tactic by the defense as the ****her away from the crime the trial is, the less likely that the verdict will be guilty.
    This is true.
    It also reveals a fundamental flaw in regards to the legal system and that is dependency on eye witness testimony and other peoples recollections of events.

    There are breakthroughs in the knowledge of memory that indicates that as a species we are not very good at recollecting reality and most of our memories are constructs of perceptions and have little if anything to do with what really happened even in traumatic experiences.

    Anyway, it is this flaw that allows for this sort of action to happen IE: hold a trial away from people who have been exposed to the story and that have developed a perception of the story in their own minds.

    Anyway, this came to mind with your mentioning of it.

    For what it's worth, in science, "eye witness" testimony is the least valued data, while repeatable outcomes through steps is the most valuable. Eye witness doesn't matter when something is either real or unreal. Except in law. Go figure, but this is also why so many people get thrown in prison for things they have never done.
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    Shrimp Boy accusations

    There are vids if you follow the link.

    'SHRIMP BOY' ACCUSES SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR IN BID TO DISMISS CASE

    Attorneys for Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow filed a motion Tuesday that claims the FBI has evidence of San Francisco officials accepting illegal money, but federal prosecutors refuse to go after them.

    By Carolyn Tyler
    Tuesday, August 04, 2015 12:00AM

    SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The reputed gangster at the center of San Francisco's ongoing bribery and corruption case is pointing the finger at scores of top city leaders, including Mayor Ed Lee. Attorneys for Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow filed a motion Tuesday that claims the FBI has evidence of those officials accepting illegal money, but federal prosecutors refuse to go after them.

    The allegations are explosive. Chow's attorney Curtis Briggs say there is audio evidence of pay to play politics by city officials and if prosecutors won't go after the elected officials, they should let Chow go.

    "Is the FBI corrupt? Or are politicians corrupt? But I guarantee you it's one or the other," said Briggs.

    Chow, along with seven others, will go on trial this fall on charges of racketeering, money laundering, and trafficking drugs and weapons. The charges came after a lengthy federal investigation. Now Chow's attorneys say it was selective prosecution and that FBI documents show San Francisco's mayor should also have been indicted.

    "According to the FBI, he sat down with federal agents undercover, he took money from them, his staff took money from them, he was supposedly knowledgeable about what the money was for and he attempted to pay up on the bribe," Briggs said.

    Late Tuesday afternoon, Lee fired back, saying the accusations are old and untrue.

    "Everybody makes whatever allegations they want to make for the sensationalism," he said. "These things have been thoroughly vetted and as far as I'm concerned, they're warrantless."

    But Chow's attorneys say that according to the FBI documents, Lee and at least half a dozen city officials were involved, with one allegedly telling the FBI that former Mayor Willie Brown told them, "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 mafia."

    Chow's lawyer says Supervisor London Breed was named in the FBI documents. She calls allegations against her baseless and says "I'm not angry, it's just very sad."

    And Briggs says it's possible the FBI could be wrong.

    "I'm not saying the FBI is telling the truth, we might find out that the FBI has completely lied," he said.

    ABC7 News reached out to former Mayor Willie Brown, but have not heard back. The U.S. Attorney's Office has not commented.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bawang View Post
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    bawang is a 4channer, confirmed! lol
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    Front page of the SF Chron today

    Actually, I don't think this is the same article I read two hours ago. Maybe that hasn't been posted on SFGATE yet. But this is huge news in my 'hood. I hate to see another Chinese politician get indicated here but justice must be served.

    S.F. Mayor Lee: Bribery allegations like reading a comic book
    By Emily Green, Heather Knight and Debra J. Saunders Updated 9:10 pm, Wednesday, August 5, 2015


    In this image provided by Jen Siska, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, is seen posing for a portrait in San Francisco in July 2007. Investigators say Chow is the leader of one of the most powerful Asian gangs in North America. Chow's gang is said to have lured state Sen. Leland Yee into its clutches through money and campaign contributions in exchange for legislative help, as Yee sought to build his campaign coffers to run for California secretary of state. Yee and Chow were both arraigned on federal gun and corruption charges on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Jen Siska)

    Mayor Ed Lee on Wednesday shrugged off a court filing by attorneys for an alleged Chinatown gang leader that claims the mayor took bribes and engaged in pay-to-play politics.

    “They’re kind of like orangutans trying to deflect attention,” Lee said of Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow and his attorneys.

    On Tuesday, attorneys for Chow filed documents in federal court claiming the U.S. attorney’s office selectively targeted Chow when FBI agents were investigating corruption by politicians and local civil rights leaders. In addition to Lee, Chow’s defense team alleged improprieties by Board of Supervisors President London Breed, Supervisor Malia Cohen, former Supervisor Amos Brown and NAACP official the Rev. Arnold Townsend.

    None of them were charged, and all — excluding Brown, who couldn’t be reached for comment — denied the allegations.

    Sign of desperation

    Legal observers called the accusations by Chow’s defense team a desperation attempt to have his indictment dismissed, but said they could nonetheless prove politically damaging to those cited. The filing quotes FBI agents and wiretaps and reveals how extensive the FBI’s investigation was and how many politicians it touched.

    Chow’s attorneys, J. Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs, claimed the FBI has evidence that the mayor “took substantial bribes in exchange for political favors.” They don’t say what political favors Lee allegedly granted.

    In a telephone interview Wednesday, Lee called the allegations “sensational” and said reading them was like reading a comic book.

    “It’s sad they have to draw me into this,” he said, adding that there is no merit in the allegations that he took bribes or engaged in pay-to-play politics.

    “This is not the way we run city government,” he said. “I’ve been associated with city government for 21 years, and we do things the right way.”

    Chow is charged with running a Chinese American community organization as a racketeering enterprise. The filing by his attorneys Tuesday is a “motion to dismiss for selective prosecution,” meaning he was unconstitutionally targeted.

    Specifically, Chow’s attorneys cite materials claiming that businessman Derf Butler paid Breed with “untraceable debit cards for clothing and trips in exchange for advantages on contracts in San Francisco.” They accuse Townsend — an associate minister at Church Without Walls who is also vice chairman of the local chapter of the NAACP — of being “unapologetically on the payroll” of an undercover FBI agent in exchange for “Townsend’s apparent political influence.”

    And they accuse Brown, Townsend, Butler, Breed and Cohen of being “implicated in dramatic pay-to-play schemes including calling into doubt the efficiency and real purpose of One Stop Career Center in the Fillmore.” The filing does not explain what the schemes were that involved the center, which provides career development and employment services.

    “A lot of what is out there is hearsay,” Breed said. “The reality is when you are in a position like this you are a target. ... You do your part, you stand your ground, you remain ethical and that’s what I have done throughout my entire career.”

    Chow’s attorneys accuse the mayor of knowing that $10,000 in bribes was being broken up into $500 contributions — the legal limit — to be used to retire his 2011 campaign debt.

    Legal experts said Chow’s team is taking an aggressive approach.

    “The best defense is a good offense, and this is an example of what they are trying to do here, which is put the prosecution and all the other political officials on the defensive,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “What (Chow) wants to say is, if he’s going down, at least the reputations of many other people will as well.”

    An uphill battle

    But Levenson and other legal observers said Chow will have an uphill battle proving that prosecutors are targeting him.

    “Ninety-nine percent of those motions fail,” she said. “Prosecutors are not required to prosecute everyone involved.”

    Chow’s attorneys claim he was picked out because of his association with the Chinese Free Masons, his “outspoken and open dialogue relating to past criminal activity and ties, and his increasing legitimate political influence.” They also accuse U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of failing to prosecute the officials because they were politically connected and because of the “perceived negative sociopolitical consequences” of going after them.

    Rory Little, a former U.S. attorney and professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, said Chow may be right that other people engaged in less-than-forthright behavior. But he said that doesn’t change Chow’s culpability.

    “None of what I have seen has anything to do with whether Raymond Chow is guilty or not guilty of the charges. The idea that there are a lot of other fish in the sea and the government only hauled in one doesn’t change the fact that one is on the hook,” Little said.

    Uncertain fallout

    Even so, it remains to be seen what the political fallout from Chow’s allegations will be.

    “You are going to see folks try and make hay of this,” said political consultant David Latterman. “But you have to be really careful because there is nothing there yet. Anybody can say anyone is corrupt.”

    The allegations could also result in a backlash against the FBI, Latterman said, because nearly all of the people targeted in the investigation are African American and Asian. “They are going after Chinese politicians. They are going after black politicians. There might be something wrong with this picture.”
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    Front page every day now

    Actually I read the Merc this morning, not the Chron. But this was front page there too.


    Veteran prosecutor put on leave in ‘Shrimp Boy’ attorneys’ claims
    By Henry K. Lee Updated 6:15 pm, Thursday, August 6, 2015


    Alameda County prosecutor Sharmin Bock Photo: Handout Photo
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    A veteran Alameda County prosecutor who is an expert on human trafficking was placed on leave after defense attorneys in a high-profile San Francisco racketeering case alleged she had taken steps to launder campaign contributions with disgraced former state Sen. Leland Yee.

    Sharmin Bock, a prosecutor for nearly three decades who most recently worked in the consumer, environmental and worker protection division — and who ran unsuccessfully to be San Francisco’s district attorney in 2011 — was placed on paid leave, said Sam Singer, a public relations consultant speaking on her behalf.

    Singer said Bock would be exonerated of any wrongdoing and blasted the claims by attorneys for alleged San Francisco Chinatown gang leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow as “reckless and defamatory.” He said Bock would “cooperate with any review of the records and assist in any investigation.”

    Singer said the allegations against Bock “are demonstrably false, and they are designed to misdirect attention from the serious allegations by federal prosecutors that are facing Mr. Chow. We know this won’t succeed. There is not a single fact that they presented nor is there a single law that they presented that has any bearing in reality.”

    Bock, 53, was named in an explosive court filing by the defense attorneys. They said Bock was given an “unexplainable pass” after allegedly being heard repeatedly on federal wiretaps “conspiring with Leland Yee to exchange donations to defeat campaign finance limits while she was running for district attorney” in San Francisco.

    “She remains unindicted and, in fact, she is still a prosecutor,” wrote Chow’s attorneys, Curtis Briggs, J. Tony Serra and Greg Bentley.

    Chow’s attorneys also accused San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee of engaging in pay-to-play politics. Lee has similarly brushed off the accusations, which were contained in documents filed Tuesday claiming federal prosecutors selectively targeted Chow as FBI agents broadly investigated corruption by politicians and other local leaders.

    Bock did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.

    Rebecca Richardson, a spokeswoman for Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, said Thursday, “By law, we cannot and do not comment on personnel matters.”
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    U.S. judge declines to seal allegedly confidential documents filed by Raymond Chow
    August 20, 2015 By Bay City News Service

    A federal judge in San Francisco Aug. 7 turned down a prosecution request to seal documents in which racketeering defendant Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow disclosed excerpts of FBI wiretap applications.

    U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said it would be futile to seal the documents filed by Chow on Aug. 4 because they have now been made public online and elsewhere.

    “These documents are available on the Internet and have been widely publicized. The court will not engage in a futile act,” Breyer wrote in a two-page order. But the judge said he “will address the propriety of defendant Chow’s having publicly filed” the documents at the conclusion of the racketeering and organized crime case.

    Breyer also ordered that any future filings by any parties in the case that contain information from wiretap applications and orders “shall be filed under seal and may be disclosed only upon a finding of good cause by this court.”

    Chow, 55, the leader of the Chee Kung Tong fraternal association in San Francisco’s Chinatown, is charged with racketeering conspiracy, trafficking in stolen liquor and contraband cigarettes and money laundering. He and seven co-defendants are due to go on trial in Breyer’s court on Oct. 19.

    His lawyers filed the excerpts of wiretap applications by unidentified FBI agents to support Chow’s motion for dismissal of the charges on the ground that he was selectively prosecuted. Chow claims that federal agents and prosecutors unfairly targeted him while failing to pursue probes of public officials, including San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Sharmin Bock, whose names surfaced in wiretaps and recordings.

    Lee, Bock and others named in Chow’s brief have denied engaging in any illegal actions. Chow asked for either dismissal of the charges or the right to seek further evidence on his claim of selective prosecution. Breyer is scheduled to hear arguments on the request on Aug. 27.

    Federal prosecutors, in a motion for sealing submitted to Breyer late Aug. 4, contended Chow’s filing violated a protective order issued by Breyer last year and a federal law that requires a judge’s permission for release of information from wiretap applications.
    Hung Sing Boyz, we gottit on lock down
    when he's around quick to ground and pound a clown
    Bruh we thought you knew better
    when it comes to head huntin, ain't no one can do it better

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