Two of the indicted Cudahy city officials – former Mayor David Silva and Angel Perales, “the city’s former interim city manager and code enforcement director”, have pled guilty to extortion and bribery charges.
In related news, now that Silva and Perales have pled, the FBI has released some more documents from the investigation.
The documents show that a city official identified only as G.P. asked Perales and others to make non-residents register to vote in elections. They used an address that belonged to a Cudahy city employee. In exchange, that employee was rewarded with promotions and other favorable treatment, the documents say.
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Perales said that when absentee ballots were delivered to City Hall, he and G.P. determined through “trial and error” the best way to open the sealed envelopes without defacing them. “Routinely and systematically,” they opened the ballots. If they contained votes in favor of incumbents, they were resealed and counted. Ballots for non-incumbents were discarded.
And here’s a detail I missed, I think in retrospect because I was on the road at the time. Remember Osvaldo Conde, of the bimbo and the badge? I did not know until I saw the links in the LAT article that he engaged in a five-hour long standoff with the FBI. (George Parr, call your office, please.)
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