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In exchange for leniency, several of Chow's former associates \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/12/shrimp-boy-defense-tries-to-discredit-testimony-linking-chow-to-murders/\" target=\"_blank\">testified\u003c/a> against him and said Chow ordered the murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/12/13/33/2668260/4/920x1240.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">iconic photo\u003c/a> displayed during the trial, Chow was captured amid a flock of newspapers held by supporters to obscure him as he left Leung's funeral wearing a white suit. The prosecution alleged Chow's wardrobe choice was a symbol of disrespect and a sign of his power grab to assume the head of organized crime in Chinatown, a claim Chow disputes. The photo launched the FBI's \"Operation White Suit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow was also convicted of conspiring to murder Jim Tat Kong, who was shot to death with his wife in Fort Bragg in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jim Tat Kong eventually was murdered, although not necessarily as a result of Mr. Chow’s conspiracy to have him taken out,\" Frentzen said. A former associate of Chow's testified that he was brought in to kill Kong, but Chow later abandoned those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two years, the public got to know Chow's broad, smiling face as he sat silently through most days of court hearings and a highly publicized jury trial. He insisted on the jury trial, and spent days in the rare decision to testify during his own criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He spoke at length at his sentencing, devoting most of his comments to criticizing his former defense attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My defense team totally failed to protecting my right,\" Chow said, addressing the judge in stilted English. \"Totally incompetent to have this really poor representation during my whole trial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Chow's strategies, executed by storied defense attorney Tony Serra, was to attempt to prove the FBI and U.S. attorney's Office were obsessed with him while they ignored corruption and crimes of other San Francisco politicians. Chow's attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe/\" target=\"_blank\">publicly filed transcripts\u003c/a> of recordings from phone taps implicating two of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's former fundraisers and city employees -- Nazly Mohajer and Zula Jones. Along with Chow's co-defendant and former city school board president Keith Jackson, they are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/22/3-former-fundraisers-for-mayor-ed-lee-indicted-on-bribery-money-laundering-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">alleged in a separate prosecution\u003c/a> to have laundered illegal campaign donations for Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/27/motion-denied-court-drama-continues-in-shrimp-boy-case/\" target=\"_blank\">denied\u003c/a> Chow's motion alleging selective prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve been prejudiced by the court, by this ruling, by the court protecting Ed Lee from this case,\" Chow said. \"I feel I’m the victim in this matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's re-election campaign disavowed any knowledge of the scheme and donated $1,500 collected by Mohajer and Jones to the city's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow accused federal judge Charles Breyer of \"acting like a prosecutor\" during his testimony. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated: 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Leland Yee was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer rejected Yee's request for leniency -- a plea the longtime San Francisco public official and his lawyer said should be based on his record of public service and on his wife's deteriorating health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You raise the issue of leniency, and I think I have to say something about that,\" Breyer said. \"I don’t feel I should be lenient. ... The crimes you have committed have resulted in essentially an attack on democratic institutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and Keith Jackson, a close associate and San Francisco political consultant, were swept up in a wide-ranging federal investigation of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/08/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-guilty-on-all-162-counts-in-racketeering-murder-trial\" target=\"_blank\">now-convicted\u003c/a> Chinatown crime boss Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undercover FBI agent met Jackson as part of the Chow investigation, and Jackson invited him to contribute to Yee, who was trying to retire a campaign debt and raise funds for his campaign for California secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e6Qhheuw7eEjzLEN6y1yQuD0FMsJbFQp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent's introduction to Yee led to a long series of contacts involving other undercover agents. Yee and Jackson were indicted and arrested in March 2014 after they negotiated bribes to support legislation and payments for a variety of favors, including an official state Senate proclamation congratulating Chow's Chee Kung Tong organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee told Breyer that \"nothing that I will ever do will take away the pain that I’ve caused to my family, friends, supporters and the institution that I represent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Yee said, \"I hope that in your sentencing of me that you look at the entire life and not just these crimes that I’ve committed. In the 67 years of my life, I have devoted much of it to the work for the community of people here in San Francisco and the state of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Yee has taken responsibility, has led a good life, has made mistakes, has admitted his mistakes, and he shouldn’t be sort of overpunished because he happens to be a public official,\" said defense attorney James Lassart. \"It should not be an overarching crushing of this man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breyer blasted Yee for abusing the public's trust and offering his vote for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the court’s view, this is a very serious violation of trust,\" Breyer said. \"Votes are not for sale, positions are not for sale, and your conduct, and it’s on hours and hours of tape indicating that it was for sale, is a violation of trust. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer also fined Yee $20,000. Yee, who had served on the San Francisco school board and Board of Supervisors before being elected to both houses of the state Legislature, must surrender to begin his sentence in 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, Breyer sentenced Jackson to nine years in prison, eliciting quiet sobs from a supporter in the court's audience. Prosecutors had requested a 10-year sentence, the maximum allowed under Jackson's plea agreement. Breyer said he considered it, given the former political consultant and San Francisco school board president's conduct was \"akin to being a one-person crime wave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scope of your criminal involvement was enormous,\" Breyer said, adding that Jackson's crimes -- including gun and drug trafficking and facilitating illegal pay-to-play campaign donations for Yee -- is \"extremely disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson made a short statement to the court, telling Breyer that that he takes full responsibility for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I could have walked away,\" he said, \"and I should have walked away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors, who portrayed Yee as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">a cynical grafter\u003c/a>, had asked for a sentence of eight years in prison and a $25,000 fine, which would have been beyond federal sentencing guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's defense lawyer had sought a sentence of no more than five years and three months -- but had also suggested Yee do no prison time because of his wife's condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Yee were also implicated in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/23/leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings\" target=\"_blank\">a scheme to traffic weapons.\u003c/a> Yee and Jackson told the original undercover agent in the case they had contacts who could secure a wide range of arms, including automatic weapons and shoulder-fired missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that we took a large number of incredibly dangerous firearms off the street and potentially prevented a great deal more from coming to the Bay Area,\" federal prosecutor William Frentzen told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee was a noted proponent of stricter gun control during his tenure in the Legislature, a fact an incredulous-soundng Breyer noted during Wednesday's sentencing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Putting aside for the moment, basically a hypocritical position on your part, in favor of gun control, and then engaging in a process whereby weapons would be brought into the United States is frightening and unfathomable. The harm that can be caused today by weapons is incalculable, and how you could participate in this conspiracy is, I can’t express it, I can’t tell you how disturbing it is, the harm that could be caused by these weapons is incalculable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why sanction and participate in this deal? That answer I think that comes out on the tape is for money. You did it for money … Perpetuation of your power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You were willing to go entirely contrary to your stated position and engage in this type of transaction for money, and that to me is the most venal thing and the most dangerous thing that I’ve seen that you’ve done.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Yee and Jackson were indicted and arrested in March 2014 after they negotiated bribes to support legislation and payments for a variety of favors, including an official state Senate proclamation congratulating Chow's Chee Kung Tong organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee told Breyer that \"nothing that I will ever do will take away the pain that I’ve caused to my family, friends, supporters and the institution that I represent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Yee said, \"I hope that in your sentencing of me that you look at the entire life and not just these crimes that I’ve committed. In the 67 years of my life, I have devoted much of it to the work for the community of people here in San Francisco and the state of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Yee has taken responsibility, has led a good life, has made mistakes, has admitted his mistakes, and he shouldn’t be sort of overpunished because he happens to be a public official,\" said defense attorney James Lassart. \"It should not be an overarching crushing of this man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breyer blasted Yee for abusing the public's trust and offering his vote for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the court’s view, this is a very serious violation of trust,\" Breyer said. \"Votes are not for sale, positions are not for sale, and your conduct, and it’s on hours and hours of tape indicating that it was for sale, is a violation of trust. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer also fined Yee $20,000. Yee, who had served on the San Francisco school board and Board of Supervisors before being elected to both houses of the state Legislature, must surrender to begin his sentence in 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, Breyer sentenced Jackson to nine years in prison, eliciting quiet sobs from a supporter in the court's audience. Prosecutors had requested a 10-year sentence, the maximum allowed under Jackson's plea agreement. Breyer said he considered it, given the former political consultant and San Francisco school board president's conduct was \"akin to being a one-person crime wave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scope of your criminal involvement was enormous,\" Breyer said, adding that Jackson's crimes -- including gun and drug trafficking and facilitating illegal pay-to-play campaign donations for Yee -- is \"extremely disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson made a short statement to the court, telling Breyer that that he takes full responsibility for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I could have walked away,\" he said, \"and I should have walked away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors, who portrayed Yee as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">a cynical grafter\u003c/a>, had asked for a sentence of eight years in prison and a $25,000 fine, which would have been beyond federal sentencing guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's defense lawyer had sought a sentence of no more than five years and three months -- but had also suggested Yee do no prison time because of his wife's condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Yee were also implicated in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/23/leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings\" target=\"_blank\">a scheme to traffic weapons.\u003c/a> Yee and Jackson told the original undercover agent in the case they had contacts who could secure a wide range of arms, including automatic weapons and shoulder-fired missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that we took a large number of incredibly dangerous firearms off the street and potentially prevented a great deal more from coming to the Bay Area,\" federal prosecutor William Frentzen told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee was a noted proponent of stricter gun control during his tenure in the Legislature, a fact an incredulous-soundng Breyer noted during Wednesday's sentencing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Putting aside for the moment, basically a hypocritical position on your part, in favor of gun control, and then engaging in a process whereby weapons would be brought into the United States is frightening and unfathomable. 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"content": "\u003cp>New court filings in the sentencing of former state Sen. Leland Yee and his political consultant Keith Jackson point to a Colma tombstone carver as the man the two talked about as a potential supplier of weapons for an undercover FBI agent posing as an East Coast Mafioso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and Jackson \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> last year to racketeering, including conspiring to traffic weapons. They are scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors' sentencing documents related to Yee and Jackson -- who were caught up in the sprawling federal investigation of San Francisco Chinatown crime boss Raymond “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/shrimp-boy\" target=\"_blank\">Shrimp Boy\u003c/a>” Chow -- detail meetings involving Yee, Jackson and the undercover agent in which they discuss a potential arms supplier referred to as \"the Russian.\" In one conversation mentioned in the documents, Yee also refers to the alleged arms merchant as \"Leon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual identity of \"the Russian\" has emerged in defense filings as Leon Rader, the Colma stonecutter, who came to the Bay Area from the former Soviet Union in the early 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked Tuesday about prosecutors' description of him as an \"international arms dealer,\" Rader laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe my new occupation?” he said in a telephone interview. “No, I’m an artist and a sculptor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leon hates guns,” said his son, Michael Rader. “It’s absolutely absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Tombstone Connection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chow investigation took an unexpected turn after it split into a related probe of Jackson and Yee’s political corruption, according to federal prosecutors. Jackson told an undercover FBI agent who went by the alias David Jordan in August 2013 that Yee was associated with a Russian arms dealer and could broker a deal in exchange for donations to Yee’s campaign for secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say in multiple filings that Jordan had also been negotiating a large cocaine deal with Jackson, his son Brandon Jackson and their associate Marlon Sullivan -- all scheduled to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> Wednesday. The agent tied the cocaine deal to Jackson’s success in brokering a meeting with “the Russian” through Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s attorney, James Lassart, contends that Rader, the owner of Colma tombstone company Art in Stone Monuments, is simply a longtime acquaintance of Yee’s. Rader's company made a legal campaign donation to Yee’s secretary of state campaign on March 4, 2014, about three weeks before Yee's arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing, Lassart wrote: \"To this day, there is no disclosed discovery of any information attaching Mr. Rader to international arms trafficking or any business other than stone carving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart did not respond to calls for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Sheriff's Deputy Henry Sutter says he's known Rader for more than three decades, since Rader came to the Bay Area. He says the stonecutter has a reputation as \"a great artist with a creative mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sutter also describes Rader as \"a bully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He tries to emulate that he has mob ties and can use those ties to get whatever he wants,\" said Sutter, a co-owner of Kollmann & Sutter Monument Co. in Colma who has tangled in court with Rader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rader sued Sutter in 2003, alleging his competitor had infringed on his copyright by stealing monument designs. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disputed Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their sentencing memorandum for Yee earlier this month, prosecutors traced the arms smuggling discussions between the FBI's undercover agent, Yee and Keith Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2013, the memorandum recounts, Jackson told the agent that \"Yee was associated with a Russian who was an international arms dealer. Jackson said the Russian arms dealer was currently shipping large stockpiles of weapons to the Philippines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2013, the memorandum says, Jackson told the undercover agent \"the Russian had access to 'containers' full of weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, the agent is said to have given $5,000 to Jackson to set up a meeting with the Russian. On Dec. 19, Yee and Jackson met \"an individual whom the FBI identified, was Russian, and whom the FBI had reason to believe was connected to arms trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conversations in January 2014, Yee had lots more to say about his Russian contact, prosecutors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yee said the Russian 'has things you guys want,' \" the sentencing memorandum says. \"Yee cautioned however, that doing business with the Russians is not easy, and not for the 'faint of heart.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, prosecutors say, Yee referred to his Russian contact as \"Leon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader and his son said in a joint interview Tuesday that Yee and Jackson stopped by for lunch in December 2013 and asked them for a donation. They said they had never met Jackson before or since and that Yee and Leon were not close. They said two FBI agents visited them a few weeks after Yee's arrest in 2014, but they've had no further contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came to my shop,\" said Leon Rader. \"They asked me about Leland Yee. I told them I cannot say about this man, nothing else but good things. The only interaction I had with him was when I built the war memorial in San Francisco, and he was behind the World War memorial, and I was dealing with him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usssanfrancisco.org/USS%20Frisco%20Memorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS San Francisco\u003c/a> memorial in 2003. Michael Rader said Yee had stopped by on a couple occasions after their memorial dealings, when he was running for office. He said it was \"poor timing\" on their part that they had donated to Yee only once, three weeks before he was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End of the Arms Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2014, the undercover agent met with Yee and Jackson and told them that he wanted to meet Yee's Russian contact. Yee reassured him that the source was the “real deal,” but he wouldn’t talk about weapons openly at the first meeting. The agent said he wanted “a container of AKs,” but Yee encouraged him to start with smaller deals and said the Russian would not do business with him unless Yee was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee said he was “agnostic” about the weapons, according to recordings quoted in prosecutors' filings. “People want to get whatever they want to get,” said Yee. “Do I care? No, I don’t care. People need certain things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said in their separate sentencing memorandum for Keith Jackson that the Russian -- now identified by Yee's attorney as Rader -- “was apparently too savvy to actually sit down face-to-face\" with the undercover agent. The document says the agent had been trying to get Yee and Jackson to set up a face-to-face meeting with the Russian \"to ... determine if he really intended to deal in weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's sentencing memorandums for Yee and Jackson insist arms trafficking through Yee's Russian contact was a real possibility. Prosecutors say the FBI amassed evidence documenting Yee and Jackson's meeting with the Russian, including phone records and surveillance photographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the arms deal were not a real potential source for weapons, there would have been no need for the defendants to hold meetings with [the Russian],\" prosecutors argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Rader dimisses the notion his father is an arms merchant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let me ask you something,\" Michael Rader said. \"How many international arms dealers do you know who spend seven days a week hauling stone?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Jackson told an undercover FBI agent who went by the alias David Jordan in August 2013 that Yee was associated with a Russian arms dealer and could broker a deal in exchange for donations to Yee’s campaign for secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say in multiple filings that Jordan had also been negotiating a large cocaine deal with Jackson, his son Brandon Jackson and their associate Marlon Sullivan -- all scheduled to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> Wednesday. The agent tied the cocaine deal to Jackson’s success in brokering a meeting with “the Russian” through Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s attorney, James Lassart, contends that Rader, the owner of Colma tombstone company Art in Stone Monuments, is simply a longtime acquaintance of Yee’s. Rader's company made a legal campaign donation to Yee’s secretary of state campaign on March 4, 2014, about three weeks before Yee's arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing, Lassart wrote: \"To this day, there is no disclosed discovery of any information attaching Mr. Rader to international arms trafficking or any business other than stone carving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart did not respond to calls for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Sheriff's Deputy Henry Sutter says he's known Rader for more than three decades, since Rader came to the Bay Area. He says the stonecutter has a reputation as \"a great artist with a creative mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sutter also describes Rader as \"a bully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He tries to emulate that he has mob ties and can use those ties to get whatever he wants,\" said Sutter, a co-owner of Kollmann & Sutter Monument Co. in Colma who has tangled in court with Rader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rader sued Sutter in 2003, alleging his competitor had infringed on his copyright by stealing monument designs. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disputed Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their sentencing memorandum for Yee earlier this month, prosecutors traced the arms smuggling discussions between the FBI's undercover agent, Yee and Keith Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2013, the memorandum recounts, Jackson told the agent that \"Yee was associated with a Russian who was an international arms dealer. Jackson said the Russian arms dealer was currently shipping large stockpiles of weapons to the Philippines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2013, the memorandum says, Jackson told the undercover agent \"the Russian had access to 'containers' full of weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, the agent is said to have given $5,000 to Jackson to set up a meeting with the Russian. On Dec. 19, Yee and Jackson met \"an individual whom the FBI identified, was Russian, and whom the FBI had reason to believe was connected to arms trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conversations in January 2014, Yee had lots more to say about his Russian contact, prosecutors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yee said the Russian 'has things you guys want,' \" the sentencing memorandum says. \"Yee cautioned however, that doing business with the Russians is not easy, and not for the 'faint of heart.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, prosecutors say, Yee referred to his Russian contact as \"Leon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader and his son said in a joint interview Tuesday that Yee and Jackson stopped by for lunch in December 2013 and asked them for a donation. They said they had never met Jackson before or since and that Yee and Leon were not close. They said two FBI agents visited them a few weeks after Yee's arrest in 2014, but they've had no further contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came to my shop,\" said Leon Rader. \"They asked me about Leland Yee. I told them I cannot say about this man, nothing else but good things. The only interaction I had with him was when I built the war memorial in San Francisco, and he was behind the World War memorial, and I was dealing with him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usssanfrancisco.org/USS%20Frisco%20Memorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS San Francisco\u003c/a> memorial in 2003. Michael Rader said Yee had stopped by on a couple occasions after their memorial dealings, when he was running for office. He said it was \"poor timing\" on their part that they had donated to Yee only once, three weeks before he was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End of the Arms Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2014, the undercover agent met with Yee and Jackson and told them that he wanted to meet Yee's Russian contact. Yee reassured him that the source was the “real deal,” but he wouldn’t talk about weapons openly at the first meeting. The agent said he wanted “a container of AKs,” but Yee encouraged him to start with smaller deals and said the Russian would not do business with him unless Yee was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee said he was “agnostic” about the weapons, according to recordings quoted in prosecutors' filings. “People want to get whatever they want to get,” said Yee. “Do I care? No, I don’t care. People need certain things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said in their separate sentencing memorandum for Keith Jackson that the Russian -- now identified by Yee's attorney as Rader -- “was apparently too savvy to actually sit down face-to-face\" with the undercover agent. The document says the agent had been trying to get Yee and Jackson to set up a face-to-face meeting with the Russian \"to ... determine if he really intended to deal in weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's sentencing memorandums for Yee and Jackson insist arms trafficking through Yee's Russian contact was a real possibility. Prosecutors say the FBI amassed evidence documenting Yee and Jackson's meeting with the Russian, including phone records and surveillance photographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the arms deal were not a real potential source for weapons, there would have been no need for the defendants to hold meetings with [the Russian],\" prosecutors argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Rader dimisses the notion his father is an arms merchant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 4:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal jury in San Francisco has convicted reputed Chinatown gangster Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow on all 162 counts in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-trial-begins-in-s-f\" target=\"_blank\">a sweeping indictment\u003c/a> that charged him with murder, money laundering, conspiracy to traffic in stolen goods and a wide range of other racketeering offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, the dragonhead, or chief, of the fraternal organization Chee Kung Tong, faces life in prison and will be sentenced March 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This conviction represents a just and final end to Mr. Chow's long running and deadly criminal career,” San Francisco FBI Special Agent in Charge David Johnson said in a prepared statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office. “The FBI is dedicated to investigating and prosecuting violent criminal enterprises operating in the Bay Area and will continue to work closely with our state and local partners to make our communities and residents safe.”\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"phiu5wpQuH0JFWLbmuyvVsJ2H8Ql7tqT\"]\u003cbr>\nThe FBI's tactics in the several-year investigation of Chow were a key part of the defense's arguments early in the trial. His attorney's accused the FBI and federal prosecutors of misconduct for spending millions to charge a man they say was a reformed criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, that ire extended to the judge and jury in the case. Defense attorney Tony Serra called U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer \"horribly unfair.\" He castigated the jury for choosing to believe a series of criminal informants who were key to the government's case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This conviction was predicated on the testimony of five snitches that no rational human being would believe or extend credibility to,\" Serra said. \"Welcome to the federal system of justice in criminal cases. This is snitch heaven, and we feel disgusted for the case as it progressed and the case ultimately as it culminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra defended his decision to have Chow testify -- an unusual step in a high-stakes criminal case -- but said the court had not given him enough time to prepare his client for his appearance on the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Mintz of the San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29292322/shrimp-boy-trial-chow-expected-testify-today-own\" target=\"_blank\">summarized Chow's December testimony\u003c/a> this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Describing his evolution from street criminal to reformed criminal, Chow, who insists his current racketeering indictment is government-created \"fiction,\" acknowledged that his past was steeped in crime, from gun violence and beating up rivals to running drug and prostitution operations. Chow's first day on the witness stand dealt primarily with his past, but he is expected to address the current charges as the week unfolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow told the jury he took a vow to go clean after years as a feared criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It made me stronger,\" Chow said of spending much of his formative years bouncing from the streets to prison and back to the streets. \"I feel good about myself.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors played recordings in which Chow accepted cash from an undercover FBI agent, payments the government said were made in exchange for carrying out crimes like money laundering. On cross-examination, Chow told William Frentzen, the assistant U.S. attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the case, that he did not \"take\" the cash, but \"received\" it. He testified he believed the agent, identified only by the alias David Jordan, gave him the money to show respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI conducted a four-year-plus undercover investigation of Chow, who had served an earlier sentence for racketeering but insisted \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">he had reformed\u003c/a> after his release from prison in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation led in March 2014 to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">Chow's arrest\u003c/a> on the racketeering charges. A murder charge, involving the 2006 killing of a reputed Chow rival, was added last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal investigation also snared former state Sen. Leland Yee and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson, among others. 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"content": "\u003cp>Federal prosecutors looking to convict alleged San Francisco Chinatown crime boss Raymond \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/shrimp-boy\" target=\"_blank\">Shrimp Boy\u003c/a>\" Chow of murder and racketeering charges urged the jury to reject Chow's presentation as a reformed ex-con during the trial's closing arguments Monday, while his defense challenged deception employed by federal agents in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Badger argued that Chow applied lessons in duplicity that he learned from a previous federal racketeering conviction to distance himself from a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy as he rose to control organized crime in Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Raymond Chow would have you believe that he is the most misunderstood criminal in the world,\" Badger told the jury. \"Raymond Chow's been preparing for this defense since he was released from prison [in 2003].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/27/motion-denied-court-drama-continues-in-shrimp-boy-case\" target=\"_blank\">argued\u003c/a> throughout the trial that their client was a victim of a relentless, several-year FBI investigation in which an undercover agent repeatedly offered to involve members of the Chinatown organization Chow headed -- the Chee Kung Tong -- in fabricated stolen goods and money-laundering deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Talking about this undercover officer, holy God,\" defense attorney Tony Serra told the jury. \"He can lie. He can misrepresent. He can say I love you over and over, I respect you over and over. Then he can turn around and bite you like a snake, bite you and coil you up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra urged the jury to reject the FBI's tactics, prompting Judge Charles Breyer to interrupt his closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot pass judgment as to the propriety of the undercover agent's tactics with respect to this case if they are legal,\" Breyer told the jury. \"The court has instructed you that an undercover agent may engage in illegal activities. That is deception.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/fbi-shrimp-boy-behind-s-f-chinatown-unrest-as-he-rose-to-power\" target=\"_blank\">argued throughout\u003c/a> the trial that Chow began plotting to take over the tongs in the early 2000s, and he cemented his power grab with the Feb. 27, 2006, assassination of another tong leader, Allen Leung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was Raymond Chow who benefited the most from Allen Leung's murder,\" Badger said, noting that Chow then rose to dragon head of the Chee Kung Tong in August 2006. \"Six months later, Raymond Chow had the power, the position and the respect. He established himself in Chinatown. Allen Leung was out of the way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of Chow's former associates testified during the trial that he ordered Leung killed. Chow is also charged with conspiring to kill Chinatown rival Jim Tat Kong in 2011 and 2012, and other alleged former associates testified to the rivalry and Chow's order to \"take care of Jimmy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Serra urged the jury to discount the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/12/shrimp-boy-defense-tries-to-discredit-testimony-linking-chow-to-murders\" target=\"_blank\">testimony\u003c/a> of all the government's witnesses hoping for a lighter sentence in exchange for their cooperation, noting that both murder counts were added to Chow's indictment shortly before the trial's start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They knew they were going to lose, and they invested all of this money in a case where their trophy was going to walk,\" Serra said of the prosecution. \"They went to the toilet and they scraped the bowl and they came up with five or six or seven scumbags, and then it turned into a murder case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Badger said among the lessons Chow learned from his previous conviction was to feign ignorance of the crimes carried out by his associates, but he took kickbacks from his crew, she said, and dozens of thousand-dollar payments from the undercover agent using the name David Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Raymond Chow did what any high-ranking member of a gangster racketeering organization does,\" Badger said. \"He connected David Jordan ... gave his blessing. His associates started working, engaging in a wide range of crimes with David Jordan, and Chow was the shot caller.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have over the course of the two-month trial sought to prove Chow's \"deliberate ignorance\" of hundreds of money-laundering and illicit liquor and cigarette transactions, mostly initiated by the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys argue that while Chow took money from the agent, he never knew where it came from and consistently denied any interest in crimes on FBI phone and wire recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Raymond Chow is a man who says one thing but means another,\" Badger said. \"He says, 'No, no, no. No I can’t take that money,' but he took it every time. This is the man who asks you to believe him. He is not the victim here. He is not the world's most misunderstood criminal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense closing arguments are expected to conclude Tuesday. Then jury deliberations begin.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra urged the jury to reject the FBI's tactics, prompting Judge Charles Breyer to interrupt his closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot pass judgment as to the propriety of the undercover agent's tactics with respect to this case if they are legal,\" Breyer told the jury. \"The court has instructed you that an undercover agent may engage in illegal activities. That is deception.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/fbi-shrimp-boy-behind-s-f-chinatown-unrest-as-he-rose-to-power\" target=\"_blank\">argued throughout\u003c/a> the trial that Chow began plotting to take over the tongs in the early 2000s, and he cemented his power grab with the Feb. 27, 2006, assassination of another tong leader, Allen Leung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was Raymond Chow who benefited the most from Allen Leung's murder,\" Badger said, noting that Chow then rose to dragon head of the Chee Kung Tong in August 2006. \"Six months later, Raymond Chow had the power, the position and the respect. He established himself in Chinatown. Allen Leung was out of the way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of Chow's former associates testified during the trial that he ordered Leung killed. Chow is also charged with conspiring to kill Chinatown rival Jim Tat Kong in 2011 and 2012, and other alleged former associates testified to the rivalry and Chow's order to \"take care of Jimmy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Serra urged the jury to discount the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/12/shrimp-boy-defense-tries-to-discredit-testimony-linking-chow-to-murders\" target=\"_blank\">testimony\u003c/a> of all the government's witnesses hoping for a lighter sentence in exchange for their cooperation, noting that both murder counts were added to Chow's indictment shortly before the trial's start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They knew they were going to lose, and they invested all of this money in a case where their trophy was going to walk,\" Serra said of the prosecution. \"They went to the toilet and they scraped the bowl and they came up with five or six or seven scumbags, and then it turned into a murder case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Badger said among the lessons Chow learned from his previous conviction was to feign ignorance of the crimes carried out by his associates, but he took kickbacks from his crew, she said, and dozens of thousand-dollar payments from the undercover agent using the name David Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Raymond Chow did what any high-ranking member of a gangster racketeering organization does,\" Badger said. \"He connected David Jordan ... gave his blessing. His associates started working, engaging in a wide range of crimes with David Jordan, and Chow was the shot caller.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have over the course of the two-month trial sought to prove Chow's \"deliberate ignorance\" of hundreds of money-laundering and illicit liquor and cigarette transactions, mostly initiated by the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys argue that while Chow took money from the agent, he never knew where it came from and consistently denied any interest in crimes on FBI phone and wire recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Raymond Chow is a man who says one thing but means another,\" Badger said. \"He says, 'No, no, no. No I can’t take that money,' but he took it every time. This is the man who asks you to believe him. He is not the victim here. He is not the world's most misunderstood criminal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense closing arguments are expected to conclude Tuesday. Then jury deliberations begin.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The first of several former associates of alleged San Francisco Chinatown gang boss Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow finished testifying for federal prosecutors Thursday, touching on a second murder Chow is accused of ordering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convicted felon and alleged Chow enforcer Kongphet “Fat Joe” Chanthavong said he went with Chow and two other men to the Hop Sing Tong in 2011 to “prevent a guy named Jimmy from being elected dragon head,” or leader of the association. Chow had been head of another similar San Francisco Chinatown organization, the Chee Kung Tong, since 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness said he didn’t go upstairs to the 2011 meeting where Chow tried to discredit Jim Tat Kong, but he heard more about the developing rivalry between Chow and Kong over “a couple bumps of coke” in the bathroom of an Oakland bar later that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/fbi-shrimp-boy-behind-s-f-chinatown-unrest-as-he-rose-to-power\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10753907 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2.jpg-alt_361-400x243.jpg\" alt='Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow' width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2.jpg-alt_361-400x243.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2.jpg-alt_361-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2.jpg-alt_361-1440x873.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2.jpg-alt_361.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2.jpg-alt_361-1180x715.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2.jpg-alt_361-960x582.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Chanthavong \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/fbi-shrimp-boy-behind-s-f-chinatown-unrest-as-he-rose-to-power\" target=\"_blank\">testified Tuesday\u003c/a> that he helped plan the 2006 murder of Allen Leung that prosecutors allege Chow ordered so he could rise to power.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He [Chow] said somebody has to go back to Hop Sing and get close to Jimmy – take care of him,” Chanthavong said. “That’s all he said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, the alleged Chee Kung Tong enforcer and his co-defendant Andi Li would fall out of Chow’s favor after an argument at a bar in San Francisco spilled into the street, Chanthavong testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li and Chow got into a fistfight, he said, and Li knocked Chow down. The alleged gang boss was bleeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I just kept saying, ‘F---, he’s going to kill me,’” Chanthavong said. A few days later, he said he got a call from Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“'You guys are no longer part of the association,’” the witness said Chow told him. “'You are no longer my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he Li later told him that “Jimmy was killed in Mendocino.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very concerned that he was next,” Chanthavong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Tony Serra sought to discredit the admitted drug dealer and gun runner during cross examination, asking him repeatedly about his cocaine, alcohol and steroid use and his criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t have respect for the law do you?\" Serra asked. \"You sell cocaine. You sell crack. You sell guns. You sell marijuana, and when you do all this, you've got two felony priors, isn't that right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanthavong said that was all true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How much crack did you put out on the street, you personally?\" Serra asked. \"Do you have any remorse that people who smoked the crack are severely psychologically damaged for their lifetimes? You didn’t care as long as you make a buck?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanthavong answered, \"If they didn't care, why should I? ... I never forced them. ... They made their own decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness told both the prosecution and defense that he was in Chow's \"outer circle.\" He's half Thai and half Laotian, Chanthavong said, and he grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand. He does not speak Cantonese and was an honorary, not official, member of the Chee Kung Tong that Chow led.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court heard the first clip of reportedly thousands of hours of audio recorded during the FBI's 8-year investigation into Chow and dozens of people connected to him. It was collected from phone taps, bugs and body wires, including one worn by an undercover FBI agent who went by the name David Jordan. He posed as an East Coast mafia member and infiltrated the Chee Kung Tong.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"MiVA0W1RUxIOWRPdJJakqoIY5okXLvvn\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the tape played Thursday, Chanthavong drunkenly bragged to Jordan about having a \"black ops team\" that would commit violence on his behalf, something he said he made up to try to impress the false mobster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I gotta figure out how we can make you some money, seriously,\" the agent said on the tape. Chanthavong said he took this to mean through marijuana trafficking. They would do business over about a year beginning sometime in 2011, Chanthavong said, despite his initial inkling that the Jordan was an undercover cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chow told me he knew Dave for a few years and he knew Dave's boss or business partner,\" Chanthavong said. Jordan's business partner was another FBI agent who spoke Cantonese and went by the name Jimmy Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial marijuana deals between Jordan and Chanthavong -- he ran four illegal grow houses at different times around the Bay Area -- spilled into gun sales. Chanthavong said he sold Jordan three weapons. The agent pressured to him to get get guns as quickly as possible, but Chanthavong said he didn't want to sell a gun with \"bodies on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t want to provide him with just any gun off the street because you run the risk of getting something dirty ... used in a murder,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra told Chanthavong the charges he's admitted to in a plea agreement with the prosecution could land him in prison for 140 years, and one carries a possible life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Isn’t that why you’re here?\" Serra said. \"You don’t want to go away for 140 years or 40 years or 20 years or 10 years. ... You're seeking only to save your own skin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not entirely, the witness answered. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li and Chow got into a fistfight, he said, and Li knocked Chow down. The alleged gang boss was bleeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I just kept saying, ‘F---, he’s going to kill me,’” Chanthavong said. A few days later, he said he got a call from Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“'You guys are no longer part of the association,’” the witness said Chow told him. “'You are no longer my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he Li later told him that “Jimmy was killed in Mendocino.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very concerned that he was next,” Chanthavong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Tony Serra sought to discredit the admitted drug dealer and gun runner during cross examination, asking him repeatedly about his cocaine, alcohol and steroid use and his criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t have respect for the law do you?\" Serra asked. \"You sell cocaine. You sell crack. You sell guns. You sell marijuana, and when you do all this, you've got two felony priors, isn't that right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanthavong said that was all true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How much crack did you put out on the street, you personally?\" Serra asked. \"Do you have any remorse that people who smoked the crack are severely psychologically damaged for their lifetimes? You didn’t care as long as you make a buck?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanthavong answered, \"If they didn't care, why should I? ... I never forced them. ... They made their own decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness told both the prosecution and defense that he was in Chow's \"outer circle.\" He's half Thai and half Laotian, Chanthavong said, and he grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand. He does not speak Cantonese and was an honorary, not official, member of the Chee Kung Tong that Chow led.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court heard the first clip of reportedly thousands of hours of audio recorded during the FBI's 8-year investigation into Chow and dozens of people connected to him. It was collected from phone taps, bugs and body wires, including one worn by an undercover FBI agent who went by the name David Jordan. He posed as an East Coast mafia member and infiltrated the Chee Kung Tong.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the tape played Thursday, Chanthavong drunkenly bragged to Jordan about having a \"black ops team\" that would commit violence on his behalf, something he said he made up to try to impress the false mobster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I gotta figure out how we can make you some money, seriously,\" the agent said on the tape. Chanthavong said he took this to mean through marijuana trafficking. They would do business over about a year beginning sometime in 2011, Chanthavong said, despite his initial inkling that the Jordan was an undercover cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chow told me he knew Dave for a few years and he knew Dave's boss or business partner,\" Chanthavong said. Jordan's business partner was another FBI agent who spoke Cantonese and went by the name Jimmy Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial marijuana deals between Jordan and Chanthavong -- he ran four illegal grow houses at different times around the Bay Area -- spilled into gun sales. Chanthavong said he sold Jordan three weapons. The agent pressured to him to get get guns as quickly as possible, but Chanthavong said he didn't want to sell a gun with \"bodies on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t want to provide him with just any gun off the street because you run the risk of getting something dirty ... used in a murder,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra told Chanthavong the charges he's admitted to in a plea agreement with the prosecution could land him in prison for 140 years, and one carries a possible life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Isn’t that why you’re here?\" Serra said. \"You don’t want to go away for 140 years or 40 years or 20 years or 10 years. ... You're seeking only to save your own skin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not entirely, the witness answered. He said he was angry that Chow had vouched for undercover FBI agents, and he's seen transcripts of recorded conversations in which Chow talks about he possibility that Jordan might be an FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did it because I was pissed off,\" Chanthavong said. \"I was lied to. I was betrayed.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The second day of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow's federal criminal trial saw testimony from the FBI agent who monitored him after his release from prison in 2003 and from an associate of the alleged Chinatown gang leader who testified he helped plan a murder that Chow is accused of ordering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe \"Fat Joe\" Chanthavong said he surveilled Allen Leung's business for weeks before the former tong leader was shot to death in February 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He testified he was brought into the alleged gang hit sometime in mid-2005, when he met with Raymond Chow, Raymond \"Skinny Ray\" Lei, and another man he only knew by his first name, Kevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Chanthavong said, he wasn't sure what kind of job he was being brought into -- he doesn't speak Chinese. But its nature became clear after Chow went back into the bar in Oakland near where the meeting took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We start talking and start brainstorming and that’s when I learn that someone was going to get taken out,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then started driving by 603 Jackson St. in San Francisco's Chinatown -- where Leung would eventually be shot to death on Feb. 27, 2006. But when he got the call from \"Kevin\" to do the shooting, Chanthavong said he got cold feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t want to be a part of it,\" he said. \"I’m not a killer. I’m a drug dealer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a few weeks after he walked away from the job, he read Allen Leung's name in the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had no reaction,\" he said. \"I knew it was going to happen, so it wasn’t a surprise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutor Waqar Hasib asked him if he ever asked Raymond Chow about the killing after it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" he answered. \"It's something you don’t talk about. I mean, the guy was murdered. I didn’t ask. That’s the thing -- you don’t ask questions. Once it’s done, it’s done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanthavong is one of Chow's nearly two dozen co-defendants. He said he pleaded guilty to racketeering, marijuana and cocaine distribution, narcotics manufacturing, being a felon in possession of a firearm and selling firearms without a license -- at least three he sold to an undercover FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"EtmQgrVRqkpqCOo0qkeI5lXf7qEIpZ7C\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hasib asked him what he hoped to get in exchange for his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get a break out of it,\" Chanthavong answered, \"a lesser sentence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to FBI Special Agent William Wu, who was cross-examined Tuesday, Chow began plans to take out Allen Leung in late 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow’s attorney, Curtis Briggs, peppered Wu with questions about why the bureau in 2004 withdrew support for Chow's release from immigration custody. Chow was awaiting a visa in exchange for testifying against another member of “Jackson Street Boys,” a Chinatown gang, according to Wu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent repeatedly described a “series of events,” which individually were uncorroborated, but taken together, the FBI could “no longer feel comfortable that we can monitor Mr. Chow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung got in touch with the FBI through the SFPD's Gang Task Force in late 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Allen Leung told me that Raymond Chow came to remove him and somebody else,\" he said, later clarifying Leung meant the head of another tong, \"so he could take over and clean up Chinatown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu met with Leung three times in quick succession that November, the agent testified, and each time he said he was scared of Raymond Chow. Wu, Chow's handling agent, asked Leung to wear a wire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Leung refused to wear the body wire because he was afraid if Mr. Chow found the wire, he would kill him,\" Wu said, adding that Leung told him, as a gang member, he could not use law enforcement to set up another gang member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But he's talking to you,\" Briggs said. \"He’s doing exactly what he said he swore not to do?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu said that was true, and after Leung refused to wear the wire, there wasn't much else the FBI could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung later told Wu, the agent testified, that an associate of Chow's showed up with 40 gang members to intimidate the former dragon head. Then in February of 2005, Wu said, someone splattered red paint on every one of Chinatown's tongs except for Hop Sing. Leung, the head of Hop Sing Tong, again contacted Wu and was frightened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Red paint signifies blood,\" Wu said. \"It’s the start of a gang war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung told Wu, according to the agent, that Hop Sing Tong was being set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a month later, two gunshots were fired at the front of Hop Sing Tong's headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s violence we do not and cannot tolerate,\" Wu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow was never directly linked to any of the incidents and denied any involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You took every gang member’s word over his,\" Briggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the FBI's support for Chow's monitored release from immigration custody was revoked, and Chow went back into custody for about a year, although the U.S. Attorney's Office continued to advocate for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After Mr. Chow was turned back into custody, Chinatown was quiet for that entire year, until he was released again,\" Wu said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The murder and racketeering trial of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is finally underway. It's a highly anticipated faceoff between federal prosecutors who argue the Chinatown tong leader was a criminal mastermind and defense attorneys who say the government spent millions in an unsuccessful attempt to entrap an ex-con who had gone straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232463808\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening arguments Monday, federal prosecutor Waqar Hasib asked the jury to picture a rainy day in San Francisco's Chinatown -- Feb. 27, 2006 -- when a man donning a ski mask was buzzed into former tong leader Allen Leung's shop at 603 Jackson St. The man shouted \"robbery\" in English, but Leung's offer of money went unanswered. Moments later, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-KILLING-IN-CHINATOWN-Allen-Leung-a-power-in-2500019.php\" target=\"_blank\">Leung was shot\u003c/a>. He bled to death on the floor of his office. Several thousand dollars were left at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity. ... Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.'\u003ccite>Waqar Hasib,\u003cbr>\nAssistant United States attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This was not some random robbery,\" Hasib told the jury. \"This was something much darker, much more sinister. The evidence will show that this was a hit -- a coldblooded gangland-style hit ... ordered by that man over there, Raymond Chow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 162 charges that Chow is facing, he stands accused of soliciting the murders of not only Leung but also a man prosecutors describe as a rival from another tong, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mendocinosheriff.com/press/view.cgi?1236365\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Tat Kong\u003c/a> -- killed in the Mendocino County town of Fort Bragg two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, Hasib said, is about much more than the two murders, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity,\" he said. \"Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, who has done time in the past for racketeering, drug trafficking, arson, armed robbery and attempted murder, insists he is innocent of all charges and plans to testify in his own defense. His lead attorney, Tony Serra, told the jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Chow is a changed man\u003c/a> whom the FBI spent millions trying -- and failing -- to trap in crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence will not show that my client murdered or participated in the murder of anyone, period,\" Serra told the jury. He said the government added the murder charges to its sweeping criminal indictment at the last minute and only after securing the testimony of several cooperating witnesses with lengthy criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these insiders, these cooperators, they jumped on the bandwagon right at the end, in order ultimately that they secure leniency with the sentencing that many of them face,\" Serra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government's investigation has already resulted in several guilty pleas -- including that of former state Sen. Leland Yee, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">in July admitted \u003c/a>committing wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, firearms trafficking and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both defense lawyers and prosecutors say they'll prove their cases using the same secretly recorded statements, mostly collected by an FBI agent posing as a foul-mouthed East Coast Mafia member with business opportunities for members of Chow's Ghee Kung Tong. With the help of another agent who speaks Cantonese and posed as a \"Shrimp Boy\" groupie, agent David Jordan infiltrated the group in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At one point Raymond Chow tells David Jordan, 'I don’t commit crimes myself, but I know lots of people who do. Would you like to meet them?' \" Hasib said. \"Almost immediately after meeting each one of these people -- sometimes within minutes, seconds -- David Jordan is able to conduct criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that point on, Chow's relationship with Jordan followed a predictable pattern, according to the prosecution. Chow would make an introduction -- or approve money laundering, drug trafficking, gunrunning or fencing of stolen property deals -- and Jordan would carry them out with an alleged Chow associate. The defense says the FBI provided almost $500,000 in fake black-market cigarettes alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deals, Jordan would bring Chow an envelope full of cash, and Chow would verbally refuse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will hear that Raymond Chow always stays an arm's length away from the criminal activity, says, 'No, no, no, I don’t want the cash,' \" Hasib said. \"But every time, Raymond Chow takes the envelope and drops it in his pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra argued Chow was living on charity as a respected member of the Chinese community and hoping to soon publish a book about his life. But accepting money, he said, doesn't mean Chow was interested in or even aware of the crimes going on around him.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"lGt0DjgfvJuQJl1RXQDzU0yzg2ZoNGAh\"]\u003cbr>\n\"He gave up that life,\" Serra said. \"But he’s not a policeman. He’s not some kind of minister. He’s not going to go out and try to clean up some of the criminal activity that goes on in Chinatown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra and his team are arguing that the FBI spent millions attempting to entrap an innocent man -- not only by giving cash to Chow and fronting thousands to be laundered but also by wining and dining suspects at fancy restaurants and high-end hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said the FBI spend more than $1 million on those kinds of out-of-pocket expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite you to dislike that,\" he told the jury. \"It should trouble you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the jury was excused for the day, the government questioned Serra's math and said jurors should be allowed to know that much of their expenses were recovered through the illegal cash and property seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer expressed concerns about Serra's argument and said he'd consider letting prosecutors inform the jury about the government's position on the expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first day of the criminal trial ended with two law enforcement witnesses called by the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first San Francisco police officer to arrive at the scene of Allen Leung's killing testified about the scene as prosecutors flashed a photographs of Leung's body -- face-down in a pool of blood -- and played a recording of the 911 call his wife made. Jenny Leung screamed and cried on the tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then FBI agent William Wu testified about Leung's funeral. Formerly assigned to the FBI's Asian organized crime unit, Wu said law enforcement turned out in force for the funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A well-known member of the Chinese tong was murdered,\" he said. \"We wanted to make sure that there was no violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funeral was peaceful. Chow was photographed emerging from the ceremony in a bright white suit, despite dozens of people surrounding him and holding up newspapers and trying to block him from view. That wardrobe choice would inform the name of the FBI's \"Operation White Suit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu testified that before he was killed, Leung had contacted the FBI and was frightened of Chow. His fears, the prosecution argues, came true.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He said the government added the murder charges to its sweeping criminal indictment at the last minute and only after securing the testimony of several cooperating witnesses with lengthy criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these insiders, these cooperators, they jumped on the bandwagon right at the end, in order ultimately that they secure leniency with the sentencing that many of them face,\" Serra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government's investigation has already resulted in several guilty pleas -- including that of former state Sen. Leland Yee, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">in July admitted \u003c/a>committing wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, firearms trafficking and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both defense lawyers and prosecutors say they'll prove their cases using the same secretly recorded statements, mostly collected by an FBI agent posing as a foul-mouthed East Coast Mafia member with business opportunities for members of Chow's Ghee Kung Tong. With the help of another agent who speaks Cantonese and posed as a \"Shrimp Boy\" groupie, agent David Jordan infiltrated the group in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At one point Raymond Chow tells David Jordan, 'I don’t commit crimes myself, but I know lots of people who do. 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The defense says the FBI provided almost $500,000 in fake black-market cigarettes alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deals, Jordan would bring Chow an envelope full of cash, and Chow would verbally refuse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will hear that Raymond Chow always stays an arm's length away from the criminal activity, says, 'No, no, no, I don’t want the cash,' \" Hasib said. \"But every time, Raymond Chow takes the envelope and drops it in his pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra argued Chow was living on charity as a respected member of the Chinese community and hoping to soon publish a book about his life. But accepting money, he said, doesn't mean Chow was interested in or even aware of the crimes going on around him.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"He gave up that life,\" Serra said. \"But he’s not a policeman. He’s not some kind of minister. 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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday denied a motion by defense attorneys for Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow that sought to determine why federal authorities pursued a multiyear investigation of their client but seemed to turn a blind eye to crimes they allege were committed by prominent San Francisco politicians, including Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys, Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs, asked the court to dismiss charges against Chow on the grounds their client was selectively prosecuted and, alternatively, for Breyer to force federal prosecutors and the FBI to turn over memos that could indicate why Lee \"suddenly vanished\" from the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see no evidence whatsoever of any crime or wrongdoing by the mayor,\" Breyer told Briggs and Serra from the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's hearing followed Chow's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe\" target=\"_blank\">explosive Aug. 4 motion\u003c/a> that included transcripts from FBI phone taps, body-worn wire recordings and other notes that appear to implicate several political players in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection to Lee comes from recorded statements from former Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer and commission staffer Zula Jones. According to FBI evidence cited and attached to the Aug. 4 filing, Jones called an undercover FBI agent on April 17, 2012. She initially told the agent that an individual could not donate more than $500. Then, from the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At this point, JONES realized she was speaking to UCE [undercover employee] 4773, said she called the wrong person back and said “Oh my god, I’m thinking you’re someone from San Jose …. Sorry I had a hectic day today, I really apologize.” She then switched the subject, “Ed knows that you gave the 10,000 … he knows that … he knows that you will give another 10,000. He also knows that we had to break the 10,000 up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In court Thursday, Briggs said Lee himself was also recorded on a tapped phone thanking an undercover FBI agent for the illegal donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agent 4773 actually spoke to Ed Lee on the phone in the context of an illegal donation,\" Briggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer pressed Briggs on what the \"context of an illegal donation\" means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A bribe,\" Briggs said. But when Breyer pressed further, Briggs couldn't produce evidence directly linking Lee to criminal wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the transcript of that alleged conversation was not included in Chow's original motion. Breyer has since ruled that all future references to \"wiretap applications and orders, and the documents incorporated therein, shall be filed under seal and may be disclosed only upon a finding of good cause by this Court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Thursday that the case includes some 100,000 pages of transcripts from FBI wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the record that demonstrates that the mayor was involved in the contributions, or splitting it up, or that there was any impermissible quid pro quo,\" Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs said he inadvertently omitted the transcript of Lee's alleged taped conversation with the agent from the original motion, but he described it to reporters after Thursday's hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Jones] said, here, somebody wants to talk to you, and the FBI says it was Ed Lee got on the phone, said thank you so much for your support. I'm looking forward to working with you or something to that effect,\" Briggs said. \"Zula arranged a meeting a couple weeks later. Ed Lee sat down at that meeting with three undercover agents from the FBI and very carefully talked about potentially favorable contracts in the city ... and then he kind of disappears from the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for Lee's re-election campaign did respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are you kidding me???\" Ed Lee for Mayor 2015 Communications Director P.J. Johnston wrote in an emailed response. \"The judge vindicated the Mayor, and you're pursuing more outrageous accusations by Shrimp Boy ... Shrimp Boy’s legal strategy was to smear as many other people as he could. The strategy failed. It’s incumbent upon the media to pay at least half as much attention to the exoneration as they paid to the scurrilous accusations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Ethics Commission, district attorney and city attorney have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/da-city-attorney-investigating-illegal-campaign-contributions-to-mayor-lee/\" target=\"_blank\">launched investigations\u003c/a> into the alleged improper campaign donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense team said it didn't expect the case to be dismissed but had hoped the court would force the government to reveal how the decision was made to stop investigating Lee. With that discovery, the lawyers argued, they could likely make a better case that Chow was unfairly targeted while federal prosecutors turned a blind eye to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're in a Catch-22 unless the court intervenes,\" Serra told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Badger argued the legal burden is on the defense to provide evidence of a selective prosecution, which they failed to do in this case. She said in court that the issue goes to the heart of government separation of powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The executive makes the decision who and what to prosecute, whether there is sufficient evidence,\" she said. \"The courts require a rigorous standard in order to allow the judicial branch to start scrutinizing prosecutorial discretion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer suggested to the defense that Lee and others may not have been prosecuted because the evidence wasn't there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, too big to fall,\" Serra responded. \"Too big to fall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing there, Mr. Serra,\" Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said allegations brought up in the selective prosecution motion will be central to the defense's case when Chow's jury trial begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could have got other political people easy as pie,\" Serra said after court. \"They chose not to, and this motion here, we wanted to find out really, why didn't you? Why didn't you go to the grand jury on the mayor? Why didn't you further the investigation? ... You're going to find that they didn't want to touch this very strong political core in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted to get our client Shrimp Boy. They were blind to everything else. So that's going to help us with a jury.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Johnston, Lee’s re-election campaign communications director, responded by email to a KQED inquiry to the mayor’s office: “While it appears others may have tried to engage or ensnare Mayor Lee and any number of other people in their own wrongdoing, there’s absolutely nothing in today’s filing by Raymond Chow’s attorneys that suggests that Mayor Lee himself or his 2011 campaign did anything wrong or inappropriate. As we have stated previously, Mayor Lee’s campaign is committed to following the letter and spirit of all campaign finance laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence also includes a description of meetings between Lee and an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman interested in developing senior assisted-living facilities in the city. The agent was introduced to Lee as someone who raised $10,000 to retire the mayor’s campaign debt, and then they discussed “bringing private business interest and development into San Francisco.” However, the defense did not produce evidence that any deal was ever struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Examiner lays out some of what others allegedly said about Lee’s politics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Jones was reported by the FBI to have said that former mayor Willie Brown taught Ed Lee to do business, according to the filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got to pay to play here. We got it. We know this. We are the best at this game, uh, better than New York. We do it a little more sophisticated that New Yorkers. We do it without the mafia,” the filing reports Jones to have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohajer allegedly “explained the process by which she launders Ed Lee’s campaign money,” said the filing, which went on to say that Lee took $20,000 in campaign contributions, gifts and trips in his first four months in office. The filing alleges that Jones and Mohajer said Lee “knew he was taking the money illegally.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The motion includes another allegation that San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency employee Sululagi Palega sold a gun to an undercover FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During a meeting at Waterbar Restaurant on the Embarcadero, Palega agreed to provide numerous weapons to the undercover agent so that the agent could protected his illegal narcotics business. Palega sold at least one firearm to the man who the FBI claims was allegedly an Italian Mafioso. 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