LA Developer Gets 6 Years For Bribing Huizar In 'Pay To Play'

By Gina Kim · July 21, 2023, 11:12 PM EDT

A real estate developer convicted of giving $500,000 in bribes to then-City Councilmember Jose Huizar in exchange for getting a nonprofit's challenge to a project dropped was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison...

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July 30, 2020

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