Star witness affirms pay-to-play for gun permits at Santa Clara County sheriff corruption trial

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Star witness affirms pay-to-play for gun permits at Santa Clara County sheriff corruption trial
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Martin Nielsen, whose bribery-related confessions fueled indictments and seeded the political cloud that compelled Sheriff Laurie Smith’s pending retirement, took the stand Monday.

. A guilty verdict in the current trial, spurred by a civil grand jury reviewing much of the same evidence, would force her departure even sooner.

Nielsen, testifying under a grant of immunity from criminal prosecution, said that he and then-AS Solution CEO Christian West eventually arranged to donate a large sum to an independent expenditure committee backing Smith’s re-election. Nielsen added that Capt. James Jensen brokered the issuing of four CCW permits for Nielsen and three security employees.

The precise donation amount was not stated in Nielsen’s testimony Monday due to a ruling by San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Nancy Fineman, who limited the amount of detail that Nielsen was allowed to give. She stated she did not want certain details from the criminal indictment to unduly influence the jury.

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