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Calexico, California - Former Calexico City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem David Romero, along with Bruno Suarez-Soto, a former commissioner on the city’s Economic Development and Financial Advisory Commission, were each sentenced to two years in prison today for taking bribes in exchange for “guaranteeing” a City permit for a cannabis business.
In pronouncing sentence, U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo observed that public officials should not “take positions of power to line their own pockets” and that the pair’s conduct “taints how we hope to believe democracy works.”
Romero and Suarez-Soto, both Calexico residents, previously pleaded guilty on June 11, 2020 to conspiracy to commit federal program bribery. Per their plea agreements, Romero and Suarez-Soto accepted $35,000 in cash bribes from an undercover FBI agent whom they believed represented investors seeking to open a cannabis dispensary in Calexico. I