the man who not only defended Fred Korematsu.

Chan served for years as the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) and.A former deputy mayor and long-time Los Angeles city official was sentenced Oct.

a criminal racketeering enterprise that exploited the city approval process for large real estate development projects to exact bribes from developers.including tens of thousands of dollars in sham real estate consulting fees.Chan conceived of and helped carry out an elaborate plan involving a foreign shell company.

Todays sentence sends a message to the public and City Hall alike that our government should not be for sale and those that undermine our democracy through pay-to-play schemes will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.which would require city approvals and Huizars official assistance.

CD-14 encompassed Downtown Los Angeles and some of its surrounding areas.

a jury on March 27 found Chan guilty of all 12 felony counts for which he was charged: one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.on the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln boulevards

The Christian Bible teaches on numerous occasions we should love the foreigner (i.Japanese immigrants in those early days were often labeled by the dominant society as uncouth.

even though the governor of Ohio and the mayor of Springfield assured their constituents that the rumors were simply not true and that Haitian immigrants were.The Issei generation who came to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s were generally from poor.