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March 01, 2005
SoCal water board member sentenced in bribery case
As published by the Los Angeles Times and reported by David Rosenzweig, in Los Angeles, a Southern California water district board member who pleaded guilty to accepting a $25,000 bribe in exchange for voting to award a contract for financial services was sentenced to two years in prison.
Tyrone Smith, 47, of Ladera Heights is one of about a dozen officials who had been convicted following a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe in to municipal corruption in Carson,CA.
The judge also ordered Smith to pay $25,000 in restitution to the water district and also to serve three years of probation after being released from prison.
Smith, a board member of the Carson-based West Basin Municipal Water District, in 2003 had pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and six counts of money laundering in connection to his vote to award a debt refinancing contract to M.R. Beal & Co. of New York.
Takes on a whole new meaning for dirty water.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at March 1, 2005 06:18 PM
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