Prosecutors are expected to urge a federal judge to sentence prominent Los Angeles County politician Mark Ridley-Thomas today to six years behind bars for voting in support of county contracts that would favor USC while accepting benefits for his son from the university. “This was a shakedown,” prosecutors wrote in sentencing papers. “Not the kind in movies with bags of…
Flynn, an 84-year-old former dean of the social work school at USC who pleaded guilty to bribing the veteran politician, was sentenced last month to 18 months home confinement, and ordered to pay a $150,000 fine.
Urging the judge to impose “the highest penalty that his crimes allow,” the former police chief wrote that Ridley-Thomas' “continued failure to accept responsibility or show remorse is also reprehensible. What's more, he's attempted to use his race to undermine the public's faith in the judicial process and has encouraged others to do so as well.''
Ridley-Thomas has vehemently denied any wrongdoing. He did not testify in his own defense during the three-week trial, but his attorneys argued repeatedly that nothing he did amounted to a crime. “Witness testimony and hundreds of emails admitted at trial, as well as Flynn's admissions in her plea agreement, make clear that defendant drove and orchestrated this corrupt scheme,” prosecutors wrote.
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