http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Leland-Yee-reportedly-arrested-in-corruption-case-5350602.php

Hahahahahahahahahaha

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This isn't Yee's first brush with the law. In 2000, Yee was arrested in Hawaii on suspicion of boosting an $8.09 bottle of suntan oil by putting it in the front of his shorts.

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hahahaha

This has happened.

Twas just a matter of time.

Please please please let Adam Keigwin be involved as well.

This was going to happen. Never a doubt.

Sooner or later, the crooks get caught.

glb78;842296824 said:

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http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Leland-Yee-reportedly-arrested-in-corruption-case-5350602.php

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facing corruption charges. How standard fare.

Awesome. Couldn't have happened to a worse(r) prick

Golden One;842296838 said:

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Sooner or later, the crooks get caught.

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Sometimes

glb78;842296824 said:

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http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Leland-Yee-reportedly-arrested-in-corruption-case-5350602.php

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lol sfgate/chronicle writers and editors don't identify his party affiliation.

high calibear;842296863 said:

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lol sfgate/chronicle writers and editors don't identify his party affiliation.

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They comment on it...

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Democratic officials expressed shock at the development. California Democratic Party chair John Burton said he was completely unaware of the law enforcement move, and knew nothing about it.

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Also every picture with him in it says

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State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Franicsco

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I am all for exposing political bias, but this is pretty soft "evidence"

can someone remind me why we hate Leland Yee? I mean besides the fact that he's a politician.

Phantomfan;842296865 said:

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They comment on it...



Also every picture with him in it says



I am all for exposing political bias, but this is pretty soft "evidence"

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the comment says nothing about yee's affiliation, only that democratic officials expressed shock. that would be a pretty roundabout way of identifying his party. i would assume that sfgate/chron has a style guide for how to identify politicians (Leland Yee (D) San Francisco, etc.)

i didn't go through the pictures, but again, i think the story itself is where the information should be expected to appear.

and it's really not a big deal to me; i just find it amusing coming from the chron...

beeasyed;842296869 said:

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can someone remind me why we hate Leland Yee? I mean besides the fact that he's a politician.

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Was he the one who was hating on UC and introduced bills to try control UC from the state senate (which in some ways they already do by controlling the funding)?

Also said that even if the state only gave the UC 1 cent, they should still have more control..

Pretty funny that the guy who introduced a bill to limit raises for UC officials was arrested for corruption.

socaliganbear;842296896 said:

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Also said that even if the state only gave the UC 1 cent, they should still have more control..

Pretty funny that the guy who introduced a bill to limit raises for UC officials was arrested for corruption.

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That's why I brought this up. I remember some Cal grads on here not liking him or his ideas about UC at all. He belongs to a party I identify with, but corruption is corruption no matter a (D) or an (R).

Ugh, he's a CAL alum

beeasyed;842296869 said:

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can someone remind me why we hate Leland Yee? I mean besides the fact that he's a politician.

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He also proposed a bill that opened the door to censoring and restricting video gaming content to be evaluated on wholly subjective "morality" grounds which was later struck down by the Supreme Court. He's also no friend to video gamers or the video games industry.

Anyone know how Shrimp Boy earned his nickname?

StillNoStanfurdium;842296964 said:

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He also proposed a bill that opened the door to censoring and restricting video gaming content to be evaluated on wholly subjective "morality" grounds which was later struck down by the Supreme Court. He's also no friend to video gamers or the video games industry.

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He also proposed bills multiple times to ban bullet buttons, which were subsequently shot down (pun intended). This guy swings the banhammer like no other. If he doesn't agree with it, he wants to see it banned.

IIRC he was also strongly pushing for registration of 3d printers and to track people who have access to 3d printers.

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Fed complaint alleges Leland Yee in conspiracy to traffick firearms. As senator, Yee was outspoken against high capacity magazines.

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It keeps getting better and better.

Bobodeluxe;842296966 said:

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Anyone know how Shrimp Boy earned his nickname?

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He was small growing up so his grandmother called him shrimp boy

pingpong2;842296974 said:

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He was small growing up so his grandmother called him shrimp boy

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Grandma might have put a chip on this fine young lads shoulder.

pingpong2;842296971 said:

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He also proposed bills multiple times to ban bullet buttons, which were subsequently shot down (pun intended). This guy swings the banhammer like no other. If he doesn't agree with it, he wants to see it banned.

IIRC he was also strongly pushing for registration of 3d printers and to track people who have access to 3d printers.



It keeps getting better and better.

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He sounds like most SF Democrats. :p

hanky1;842296976 said:

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He sounds like most SF Democrats. :p

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He took it to a whole different level. His tenacity to try and impose an absolute gun ban and the amount of time and tax-payer money he spent trying to push for something that time and time again got beat down in court was insane. I wouldn't be surprised if he set the record for the most legislation introduced by a single legislature that the courts later deemed to be unconstitutional. Not just the second amendment, too, he's run afoul of the first amendment numerous times as well.

Was he the Happy Meal guy?

glb78;842296824 said:

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http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Leland-Yee-reportedly-arrested-in-corruption-case-5350602.php

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I don't like him because he opposes the ban on shark fin soup.

GB54;842296983 said:

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Was he the Happy Meal guy?

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I believe that was Eric Mar.

The hit piece that came out against Yee a couple years ago in the SF Bay Guardian suddenly gained a lot more credibility.

http://www.sfbg.com/2011/08/30/real-leland-yee?page=0,0

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Rose Pak has a question about Leland Yee. "How," she asked me, "did the guy manage to buy a million-dollar house on a $30,000 City Hall salary?"

Pak isn't the only one asking — numerous media reports over the years have examined how Yee raised a family of four and bought a house in the Sunset on very little visible income. And while I'm not usually that interested in the personal finances of political candidates, I decided that it was worth a look.

Here's what I found: Public records show that in July 1999, Yee and his wife, Maxine, purchased a house on 24th Avenue for $875,000 (it's now assessed at slightly more than $1 million). At the time, Yee was a San Francisco supervisor, earning a little more than $30,000 a year. (The salary of the supervisors was raised dramatically shortly after Yee left the board and went to the state Assembly.) His wife wasn't working. And his economic interest statements for that period show no other outside earnings. So the disposable, after-tax income of the entire Yee family couldn't have been much more than $25,000.

That, by any normal standard, shouldn't have been enough to float a mortgage that, records show, totaled $516,000. In fact, the interest payments alone on that mortgage alone would total $3,600 a month — more than Yee's gross income.

Documents in the Assessor's Office show another paper trail, too. In 1989, Jung H. Lee, Yee's mother, transferred the deed on a four-unit Dolores St. building where the family had been living to Maxine and Leland Yee — for no money. And a few months before the Yees bought the Sunset house, they took out a $320,000 home-equity loan on that property. That was the down payment on the Sunset property.

Still: At that point, the Yees would have been paying off two mortgages, with a total nut of about $5,000 a month — and supporting four kids, in San Francisco. In 2002, Yee's economic interest statement's show some modest income from teaching at Lincoln University — but nowhere near enough to pay that level of expenses.

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I recalled that Yee weighed in on Coach Montgomery's "Shove Gate" last year, and a quick Google confirmed my recollection:

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/02/19/pac-12-reprimands-cal-coach-mike-montgomery-for-shoving-allen-crabbe/

Just a factoid, really. I believe that reasonable minds could differ on whether Monty should have been suspended...

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Anyone know how Shrimp Boy earned his nickname?

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This is still my favorite part of this story, that there is apparently a gangster named "Shrimp Boy".

stanfurdbites;842296841 said:

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awesome. Couldn't have happened to a worse(r) prick

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+1000

SFGate posted the indictment:

http://www.sfgate.com/file/757/757-complaint_affidavit_14-70421-nc.pdf

:rollinglaugh:

Leland Yee is like our version of Clay Davis from The Wire.

Which one of you guys made the Wikipedia update? ------Its pretty funny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chow_Kwok_Cheung

Raymond Chow Kwok Cheung
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, born Kwok Cheung (Chinese: 周國祥 in once a member of the American branch of the Hong Kong-based triad Wo Hop To.[1] Before his association with Wo Hop To, he was a member of the Hop Sing Boys, a San Francisco Chinatown street gang.

On March 26, 2014, Raymond Chow was arrested during an FBI raid in connection with an investigation into official corruption by State Senator Leland "Douchebag" Yee.[5]