Page 10 - Mitchell Englander News Today

Welcome to the February 2022 edition of the Political Law Playbook. Of particular note in this month’s edition is recent activity in the U.S. Senate surrounding federal election reform...

The charges come more than a year after Englander was sentenced to prison for lying to federal authorities.

Englander -- who represented Council District 12 in the San Fernando Valley from July 2011 until he resigned three years ago -- was already sentenced to one year and two months for trying to obstruct an investigation into bribery allegations in City Hall politics.

Former L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar loses bid to gut federal indictment accusing him of taking bribes from downtown developers.

A city councilman faces federal charges for behavior that’s become all too common.

The 51-year-old ex-councilman was also ordered to serve three years under supervised release following his prison term and pay a $15,000 fine. According to the Bureau of Prisons registry, his release date is expected to be May 28, 2022.

Lawyers for former L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar say prosecutors have not met the strict standard set by the Supreme Court for proving bribery.

CalMatters Commentary: California’s largest city, Los Angeles, is a study in social and economic crises but politicians are lining up to become its next mayor.

It’s difficult to understand why any rational person would want to be mayor of Los Angeles, California’s largest and in many ways most troubled city. As the city’s economic and social woes mount – especially a horrendous homelessness crisis – the mayor for the past eight years, Eric Garcetti, is try

Mark Ridley-Thomas is the third L.A. City Councilman to be indicted in the past couple of years.