Helios Dayspring had one goal: build a cannabis empire that, in his words, would be “too big to fail.”
But as he acquired hundreds of acres of land to grow the product and opened storefronts along California’s Central Coast to sell it, Dayspring’s ambition led him to bribery.
Dayspring began growing small amounts of cannabis around 2007, when he got a prescription for medical marijuana, one of his lawyers, Sandra Brown Bodner, wrote in a sentencing memo. Attorney Brown Bodner suggested the lawyer told Dayspring to bribe Hill, saying he gave her client “not just incorrect, but frankly illegal advice.”
In his plea agreement, Dayspring admitted that he first bribed Hill with three $3,000 money orders. He paid Hill an additional $9,000 in cash the following year, the agreement said. Shevin argued Friday that Hill did not take any action that benefited Dayspring alone, but rather a group of growers who had all been seeking the exemption. Birotte shot down that idea.
Prosecutors acknowledged that the state’s fledgling cannabis industry is “rife with corruption,” but they laid the blame squarely on Dayspring himself.
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