Federal prosecutors finished presenting evidence in their corruption case Friday against suspended Los Angeles City Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas, clearing the way for the powerful lawmaker’s defense to share its side of the case next week.
took as a member of L.A. County’s five-member Board of Supervisors that prosecutors allege were favorable to USC and done in exchange for benefits to his son, a former state assemblyman.
“I am holding my breath … MRT is really trying to deliver here,” Flynn told a professor regarding a potential vote before the Board of Supervisors for a probation training program she sought. One letter stands out: a multi-page document Flynn drafted in the summer of 2017 in which she memorialized a meeting with. In the memo, Flynn outlines a wish-list of sorts involving business between USC and the county. One request was to address the “stalled movement” of a contract between USC and the county’s mental health department and for involvement in a parole office near the university.
When Flynn saw later action by the supervisors regarding the parole office, she wrote to a colleague, “I talked with Mark about this, and I am very happy to see that he was as good as his word.”
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