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    Could be grounds for dismissal: Undercover FBI agent was removed from Leland Yee case

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    Wilson Lim dead

    I lived in Daly City for a few years. This photo brings back memories of that fog bank.

    Wilson Lim, Daly City dentist charged in Leland Yee case, dies
    Henry K. Lee and Hamed Aleaziz
    Updated 4:56 pm, Wednesday, August 27, 2014


    The office of Wilson Lim D.M.D., who was indicted along with Leland Yee, in Daly City, Calif. on March 29, 2014. Photo: Deborah Svoboda, The Chronicle

    A Daly City dentist whose indictment during the corruption investigation of state Sen. Leland Yee and alleged Chinatown mobster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow was one of the more peculiar aspects of the sprawling federal case, has died of natural causes, his attorney said Wednesday.

    Dr. Wilson Lim died early Tuesday at Kindred Hospital in San Leandro. He was 60, and maintained his innocence, said attorney Brian Getz.

    "Dr. Lim was the finest man I ever represented, a tireless servant of his community who gave excellent dental care to all who needed it whether or not they could pay," Getz said.

    Getz said the indictment against his client would be dismissed "after I obtain and file a death certificate."

    The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment Wednesday.

    Lim, a former member of San Mateo County's Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery Commission, was one of the more unlikely figures to be charged in the Yee case. A native of the Philippines, he kept a modest dental office on Mission Street in Daly City and had no criminal record.

    Dr. Eddy Lim, a dentist who worked with Wilson Lim and is not related to him, said Wednesday that he believed the criminal case "probably worsened his condition." He said he believed Wilson Lim was innocent.

    "He was a good man," he said. "He took care of his employees."

    But federal prosecutors said Wilson Lim agreed to deliver weapons from the Philippines military to an undercover FBI agent posing as an East Coast member of the Mafia.

    Lim and Yee were among more than two dozen people charged in an investigation that targeted a brotherhood organization in San Francisco's Chinatown headed by Chow - a group with which Lim had no apparent ties.

    The investigation extended to Yee after an undercover FBI agent who had infiltrated Chow's group was introduced to the senator and allegedly persuaded him to trade political favors for campaign contributions. Lim became enmeshed in the case due to his political backing of Yee.

    According to a 137-page FBI affidavit, Yee introduced Lim to the undercover agent as a man who could secure guns. The agent, the FBI said, had asked Yee to facilitate an arms deal in exchange for more campaign money.

    The accusations prompted the Philippines government to open a probe into whether Lim had links to a military captain willing to funnel automatic rifles and other arms to him.

    Lim's supporters called the scenario preposterous, noting the dentist's health and financial problems, which included a bankruptcy in 2012.

    Lim was admitted to the intensive care unit of Seton Medical Center in Daly City on June 18 and was suffering from congestive heart failure, kidney failure and liver failure, according to filings by Getz in July and earlier this month.

    The attorney had asked that in-person court appearances by his client be waived.

    Henry K. Lee and Hamed Aleaziz are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com, haleaziz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee, @haleaziz
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    yeah he died a few days ago and is lucky he won't have to serve any jail time now hahaha
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    Ed Lee

    I've been wondering how the mayor has kept out of this. Turns out he hasn't.

    Intrigue: An attorney for onetime Chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow - charged along with state Sen. Leland Yee and 27 others in a wide-ranging political corruption scandal - has accused San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee in a lawsuit of failing to disclose a $500 contribution from an undercover FBI agent.

    The suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Friday says the mayor should have revealed a $500 contribution he received from "Michael Anthony King" - believed to be an FBI agent posing as an Atlanta-area businessman. Lee reported the donation in his campaign filings, but didn't flag it when one of Chow's attorneys, Cory Briggs, recently made a public records request to his office for any information that might link the mayor to the federal probe.

    Mayoral spokeswoman Christine Falvey said Lee's office had "responded appropriately" to the request - noting that political contributions are controlled by a separate campaign committee, not the mayor's office.

    The mayor's campaign reported the King contribution in a financial-disclosure document with the city Ethics Commission on March 15, 2012. That's about the time former school board President Keith Jackson, who had been introducing the undercover FBI agent around town, attended a small mayoral debt retirement party for Lee hosted by then-Human Rights Commission member Nazly Mohajer.

    Jackson is now among those facing charges - in his case for alleged racketeering and engaging in a murder-for-hire conspiracy.

    We've reported that undercover FBI agents contributed a total of $20,000 to Lee's 2011 election effort, but his campaign people have insisted until now that they couldn't confirm the donations. The significance of a contribution from "Michael King" wasn't clear until after the indictment, when it was reported that that was the undercover agent's pseudonym.

    The lawsuit seeks to force Lee to comply with the public records request.

    "We take these assertions seriously, and if and when the mayor's campaign receives any specific information, we will take appropriate actions," said campaign treasurer and attorney Kevin Heneghan.
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    The only way they can keep people interested in this story is to keep dragging Shrimp Boy's name through all of this but he had nothing to do with ED LEE
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    notice how there's one thing missing in this article?? Raymond Chow's lack of direct involvement other than the dragging of his name into everything????????

    http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancis...nt?oid=2906855
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    there is only one important question, does raymond get the poosy, is he a poosy slayer.

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    To expand the story...

    ...it needs drones and a quarterback.

    FBI: Aircraft used in Yee-Chow probe wasn’t a drone
    By Matier & Ross
    Updated 5:33 pm, Saturday, November 15, 2014


    Photo: Michael Macor / Michael Macor / The Chronicle
    Attorneys Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs (left) speak to the media after their client Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow pleaded not guilty in July.


    The FBI took to the air during its corruption probe of state Sen. Leland Yee and alleged Chinatown gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, sending up an aircraft to observe a marijuana grow house in Antioch supposedly operated by one of Chow’s sidekicks.

    Chow’s attorneys Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs said in a court filing that they had come across a video in an “unmarked orphan file” — footage from what they thought was a drone “surveilling a local family.” Some members of the family, who sources say lived in Antioch, were later arrested.

    But FBI Special Agent Greg Wuthrich squelched any speculation that the feds had deployed a drone during the Yee-Chow investigation, saying, “I can definitely confirm that it was a manned aircraft.”

    Whatever was hovering in the air, Briggs tells us, was used widely during the investigation, in “multiple cities” — and he questioned whether the payoff “would warrant this type of inclusive invasion of people’s rights.”

    “Many citizens in San Francisco were picked up, probably as a byproduct of aerial surveillance, but the entire city was subject to this type of spying,” Briggs said. “They could make out your child’s face on a playground from 6,000 feet above.”

    According to the defense filing, an FBI aircraft circled between 3,500 and 6,500 feet over the suspected grow house in a residential cul-de-sac for more than an hour during broad daylight in June 2012.

    The camera had the ability to “zoom in extremely close on front porches, license plates, on various objects on the ground, and had a GPS target location specified on the screen,” Chow’s attorneys wrote.

    Sources familiar with the case tell us the target of the Antioch aerial surveillance was Michael Mei, a driver for Chow who allegedly grew marijuana sold by Chow’s Chinatown gang. Mei’s parents were arrested at the house in October 2012 but were never charged, sources say.

    Mei was charged by the feds in March with a narcotics violation as part of the sweeping public corruption case that also includes Yee, Chow and 26 other defendants.

    The case has been full of surprising turns, including evidence that the FBI passed phony contributions to Yee and even Mayor Ed Lee’s 2011 election campaign, and unsuccessfully tried to pull a sting on former 49ers star Joe Montana.

    In their court filing, Chow’s attorneys questioned whether the U.S. attorney’s office was even aware of the Antioch video, since “the government makes no mention of having disclosed, or intending to disclose, footage” of any aerial surveillance.

    In September 2013, a U.S. Justice Department inspector general’s audit said the FBI had spent more than $3 million since 2004 for a small fleet of drones to track criminal suspects and examine crime scenes.

    Law enforcement’s use of drones is the subject of growing debate in the Bay Area, with groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union raising concerns.

    And those worries haven’t been lost on the FBI locally. “What I can say is that during the (Yee-Chow) investigation, zero drones were used,” Wuthrich said.
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    Chinatown gang of raymond chow selling weed? ROTFLMFFAO........what a joke.
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    there is only one important question, does raymond get the poosy, is he a poosy slayer.
    his girl is pretty fine. but yes, the ladies throw themselves at him. seen it first hand.
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    the-shrimp-boy-sessions

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    Slightly OT

    I'm posting this here because it's the only thread that mentions Yank Sing. If you know SF Chinatown or downtown, you know Yank Sing. I actually had lunch there with the late great Lou Reed once. I always thought the food there was overrated and overpriced, but Lou loved it and he was very, very picky.

    Yank Sing workers get $4 million settlement from ownership
    Posted on 11/19/2014 at 6:30 am by Paolo Lucchesi in Controversy, featured

    At a time where restaurant labor practices are the subject of continued discussion and debate, one of San Francisco’s most popular restaurants has paid a massive labor settlement to its workers.

    Today, Yank Sing announced that it has reached a $4 million dollar backpay and benefits settlement for 280 affected current and former employees. Between its two locations, Yank Sing currently employs 90 full-time staffers (30 hours or more per week) and 60 part-time staffers. On an average weekend, Yank Sing will do more than 1,000 covers a day at its Rincon Center location, and another 300 at its Stevenson location.

    In summer 2013, a group of Yank Sing employees — with the help of the Chinese Progressive Association and the Asian Law Caucus — confronted the Chan family, which owns the restaurants, with a host of labor violations, namely ones surrounding overtime pay, tips and wage theft, and shift breaks.

    “It was all pretty blatant,” California Labor Commissioner Julie Su told the Los Angeles Times. Su’s staff led the investigation along with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

    Yank Sing director of operations Jonathan Glick chalks up some of the violations to a “very bad job at keeping paperwork.” After the initial shock of the violations, Glick says that the Chans addressed the complaints and accusations.

    Furthermore, the employees petitioned management for improved long-term working conditions beyond the legal minimum — which the Chans have also implemented.

    “We had a plethora of meetings with all the parties involved and went to a mediation,” Glick says. “(The $4 million figure) represents everything – all of the issues. It’s a comprehensive settlement. ”

    Glick, who has been at Yank Sing since October 2013, admits that Yank Sing ownership made mistakes: “We’ve taken responsibility for them. We are compensating for the past, and have put in place a structure that ensures we will be a company that our workers enjoy working at for a long time in the future.”

    He adds that now employees get things like a salary that is more than the minimum wage, full benefits, full health care, vacation days and the like.

    “We’ve taken steps that are socially conscious in terms of respect and benefits for our employees. For example, we as a restaurant applaud San Francisco’s passing of minimum wage increases. It will benefit so many of our employees in a positive way.”

    Yank Sing Rincon Center: 101 Spear St., San Francisco. (415) 781-1111 or yanksing.com

    Yank Sing Stevenson: 49 Stevenson St., San Francisco. (415) 541-4949 or yanksing.com
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    Trial set

    Thursday, December 18, 2014 Last Update: 4:50 PM PT
    June Trial Set in Yee Corruption Case
    By MARIA DINZEO

    SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Suspended California state Sen. Leland Yee could face a jury as early as June for charges of political corruption and conspiracy to import guns.
    At a scheduling conference on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said Yee will be tried along with his political consultant Keith Jackson, who also faces drug and murder-for-hire charges. Breyer said those charges will be tried separately, but lawyers for the defendants, including Yee's lawyer James Lassart, were not satisfied.
    "The firearms charges are going to be extremely prejudicial. The government has acquired 50 to 70 different firearms that, undoubtedly to some degree, there is going to be an attempt to introduce those," Lassart said. "It's the kind of thing that does not cancel from someone's mind if they're sitting in the courtroom."
    The government's indictment claims that Yee, who sought to retire debt from his failed 2011 San Francisco mayoral bid and raise money for his subsequent Secretary of State campaign, agreed to vote on certain legislation, help phony companies get state grants and contracts, and offered to import guns from a suspected terrorist group in the Philippines in exchange for campaign donations.
    Jackson is accused of arranging the meetings and soliciting the donations. Yee and Jackson have pleaded not guilty.
    Both were arrested during an FBI raid in March 2013. The raid also ensnared Jackson's son Brandon and sports agent Marlon Sullivan, who are charged with narcotics conspiracy, murder for hire and unlicensed firearms dealing. Breyer said they will be tried with the elder Jackson and Yee, but only on the weapons charge. Two dozen other defendants, including marquee defendant Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, leader of the Chinese American fraternal organization Chee Kung Tong, are still awaiting trial.
    But Breyer has been adamant from the outset about breaking case into manageable parts. "I can't have 28 defendants. This isn't Nuremberg," he said Thursday.
    Referring to the indictment, Breyer said, "When I went through it, I went with the concern of how Mr. Yee would be unduly prejudiced. But as I recall the indictment did tie in as an allegation certain evidentiary facts which support the position that some, not all, of the weapons violations do involve Mr. Yee."
    Yet Lassart said that Yee will be prejudiced by the "Uzis and AK47s that are going to be laying around the courtroom," even though guns were never found during FBI sweeps of Yee's house or office in Sacramento. "The impact of these weapons, and I'm very familiar of how a jury reacts to a weapon in the courtroom, you put 50 of them and it looks like the senator is absolutely engaged in that activity."
    He added, "We understand the corruption charge and the single conspiracy discussion. I suggest it should be a trial of Keith and my client alone."
    Brandon Jackson's lawyer Tony Tamburello also protested.
    "There's going to be a parade of guns, a shower of guns," Tamburello said. "This is such an emotional thing, these guns, so how are they going to separate political corruption and guns? You're putting together an emotional situation that the jury is not going to be able to separate and will prejudice everyone in this case, and that's what the government wants."
    James Brosnahan, lawyer for Keith Jackson, also said the political corruption charges should be tried separately.
    "You said a jury might think this isn't really criminal. Well this is a great country and they should have that chance. They shouldn't have guns in front of them. You have a right to make political contributions and petition your government. That's your right. That deserves separate attention by this court," Brosnahan told Breyer.
    But the judge held fast to his plan, again noting that he had already separated out the narcotics and murder for hire charges, in which Yee had no evidentiary involvement.
    Jury selection will begin on June 1, but the trial will not start before June 22, he said.
    We'll take this up in late June then...
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    Free shrimp boy

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    Lee pleads

    Ex-Sen. Leland Yee pleads not guilty to expanded charges
    By Bob Egelko
    Updated 3:04 pm, Thursday, February 5, 2015


    Senator Leland Yee is chased by reporters as he leaves the federal building in San Francisco, CA, Wednesday Mar. 26, 2014. Photo: Michael Short, The Chronicle
    Photo: Michael Short, The Chronicle

    Former state Sen. Leland Yee pleaded not guilty Thursday to an expanded indictment in his corruption case that included two new charges of money-laundering.

    The San Francisco Democrat was first charged in April, along with more than two dozen other defendants, of accepting $62,000 in bribes from FBI agents posing as contributors in exchange for legislative favors, and for illegally importing firearms from the Philippines.

    A new indictment in July accused Yee and Keith Jackson, a former San Francisco school board president who acted as Yee’s consultant and fundraiser, of using the senator’s unsuccessful campaigns for San Francisco mayor in 2011 and California secretary of state last year as “racketeering enterprises” to collect illicit contributions.

    The latest federal grand jury indictment, issued Jan. 29, added allegations that Yee and 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 from the Philippines.

    They are 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. In similar transactions, they are charged with accepting $6,800 from another agent in March 2014 as part of the gun-running agreement, then soliciting and repaying $3,000 in contributions from two more unidentified donors.

    The two money-laundering charges are punishable by up to 20 years in prison, the same penalty that applies to the bribery and conspiracy charges Yee and Jackson already faced.

    Both men are free on bail and are scheduled to go to trial in U.S. District Court in June, along with two other defendants. A separate trial is planned later this year for 24 more defendants, including Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, a former Chinatown gang leader who is accused of running a Chinese American community organization as a racketeering enterprise that trafficked in drugs, weapons and stolen goods.

    Bob Egelko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: begelko@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @egelko
    Small update.
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