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Anaheim corruption case expands as feds
charge leader of ‘cabal’ that runs city

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/17/2022 11:15:37 PM

The former head of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce has been charged with lying to a mortgage lender in a growing Orange County political corruption scandal, federal authorities announced Tuesday. In a criminal complaint, the FBI accused the chamber’s former president and chief executive Todd Ament of plotting with an unnamed political consultant to funnel chamber money into Ament’s personal bank accounts by laundering it through the consultant’s public relations firm. The money was used to influence a bank’s decision to lend Ament more than $1.1 million to buy a sprawling $1.5-million home in Big Bear, the complaint says.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dreadnought 5/17/2022 11:15:53 PM (No. 1158475)
Yesterday the mayor. Home of Disneyland
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Vesicant 5/18/2022 1:20:07 AM (No. 1158527)
We can't have white men running the corruption in Anaheim -- that's a job for the illegal aliens. I bet the FBI is investigating exactly nothing in Santa Ana aka North Tijuana.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Trigger2 5/18/2022 2:36:56 AM (No. 1158552)
Nothing new here. Demonrats are corrupt and always will be.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mifla 5/18/2022 4:54:44 AM (No. 1158583)
In their next edition, Merriam-Webster should eliminate the words "public servant".
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