Mark Ridley-Thomas was sentenced to a 3½-year prison term. Curren Price has yet to enter a plea in his case.
A major chapter in the ongoing saga of Los Angeles’ embattled leaders closed Monday morning, when former Councilmember. The 68-year-old lion of local politics had hoped to avoid prison time and had asked the judge to instead sentence him to probation and other alternatives to incarceration.She argued that a “significant” sentence was necessary to act as a deterrent to other elected officials who might consider breaking the public’s trust.
While he disagreed that he had ever crossed the line into illegal conduct, he acknowledged that he belonged at the other “end of the spectrum where there would be little, if any, question of even the appearance of unlawfulness.” Ridley-Thomas must report to prison by Nov. 13, a week after he turns 69.Curren Price
City attorney spokesperson Ivor Pine told The Times on Friday that while his office is “committed to assisting the district attorney’s office to the fullest extent permitted by law and ethics,” it is not permitted to produce the “confidential and privileged information” the D.A. is seeking.
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