State Sen. Leland Yee charged with public corruption

California state senator Leland Yee has been indicted on charges of corruption and bribery, according to multiple news reports.

“State Senator Leland Yee of San Francisco will receive the Public Official Award for his courage to oppose his own Democratic Party leaders and the governor in 2013 with public criticism of efforts to weaken the California Public Records Act by

In a turn of events that sound an awful lot like something out of Grand Theft Auto, a prominent politician has been arrested on corruption, gun-running and money laundering charges. The irony here is that it's California 

Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) was charged Wednesday with conspiring to commit wire fraud and traffic firearms, part of a sweeping public corruption case outlined by federal prosecutors. California State Sen. Leland Yee is 

Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, were outlined in an FBI affidavit, which was unsealed Wednesday, in support of a criminal complaint against Yee and 25 other people. Yee looked downcast as he appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon in handcuffs