A Beverly Hills developer was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for bribing a Los Angeles County official in what prosecutors described as one of the biggest corruption cases in L.A. history
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Chinese developer of L.A. skyscraper convicted of bribing ex-L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar. Wife, mother and brother of Huizar admit laundering cash payoffs. In December 2016, Shepos started cooperating with the FBI, which soon recorded him taking more bribes from Gabaee. Sheposin 2018 to making false statements to the FBI about bribes and signing a false 2014 tax return.
“His seven-year spree of monthly cash bribes, culminating in a massive million-dollar bribe, was not [born] of financial or emotional desperation — but immense, deliberate, and almost unfathomable greed,” Greer Dotson and Assistant U.S. Atty. Thomas F. Rybarczyk wrote in a memo to the court. “He had everything, and yet it was never enough.”
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