The suspended city councilmember and former county supervisor is accused of bribery and corruption in connection with an alleged scheme to get his son a job and scholarship at USC.
for having long been a champion of civil rights, child welfare and public health issues. He was instrumental, for example, in the rebuilding of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital.
The elder Ridley-Thomas turned to Flynn, whose school was also in financial trouble, according to the prosecutors’ memo.His supervisorial district included the school’s South L.A. campus. He graduated from USC with a doctorate in social ethics. And Ridley-Thomas once appointed Flynn to a high profile commission that looked into problems at the county’s Department of Children and Family Services.
“Both uniquely positioned to help the other, defendant and co-defendant Flynn soon came to each other’s mutual aid,” say federal prosecutors, who have collected dozens of email exchanges as part of their evidence.
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