Arman Gabaee paid $1,000 a month in bribes to a high-level LA County real estate official for preferential treatment, but the official went to the FBI.
A real estate developer was
Gabaee is the co-founder and co-managing partner of the Charles Co., a Hollywood-based commercial and residential real estate firm that bought the mall in 1999. Shepos began cooperating with the FBI in late 2016. Over the next five months, Gabaee was recorded paying Shepos $6,000 in cash bribes during meetings in cars, restaurants and men’s restrooms, prosecutors said.
“This defendant gamed the system during a seven-year bribery spree designed to expand his real estate empire,” United States Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement. “The scheme culminated in a massive million-dollar bribe that was motivated by Mr. Gabaee’s immense greed. By facilitating this pay-to-play system, Mr. Gabaee undermined confidence in the integrity and fairness of our public institutions.
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