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Jailing corrupt electeds is political penicillin | L.A. Focus News

I have a new life goal: die before I do something so horrible it becomes the first sentence of my obituary. Unfortunately, former Los Angeles Councilman Mitch Englander’s lead paragraph is now etched in stone. Englander was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for obstructing a public corruption investigation, during which it was revealed […]

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