Leland Yee Indicted On Corruption, Gun Trafficking Charges

Leland Yee Indicted On Corruption, Gun Trafficking Charges
State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) has been charged with public corruption as part of a major FBI operation spanning the Bay Area, law-enforcement sources said, casting yet another cloud of corruption over the Democratic establishment in the Legislature and torpedoing Yee's aspirations for statewide office.ÊHere, Yee speaks to members of the press in Sacramento, Calif., in this Feb. 14, 2013, file photo. (Randall Benton/Sacramento Bee/MCT via Getty Images)
State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) has been charged with public corruption as part of a major FBI operation spanning the Bay Area, law-enforcement sources said, casting yet another cloud of corruption over the Democratic establishment in the Legislature and torpedoing Yee's aspirations for statewide office.ÊHere, Yee speaks to members of the press in Sacramento, Calif., in this Feb. 14, 2013, file photo. (Randall Benton/Sacramento Bee/MCT via Getty Images)

April 4 (Reuters) - A grand jury in San Francisco has indicted a prominent Democratic California state senator on charges of corruption and conspiracy to traffic in firearms, according to court documents released on Friday.

The indictment adds to the troubles facing state Senator Leland Yee, who was arrested and criminally charged along with two dozen others in the same case last week. It details numerous examples of alleged corruption, and says that the onetime candidate for mayor of San Francisco accepted cash from an undercover FBI agent seeking to purchase illegal weapons. (Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

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