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I am sometimes criticized for not calling out Democrats for egregious behaviors. Here you go.

Courtesy of the LA Times:

State Sen. Leland Yee, a prominent figure in California's Democratic legislative majority, was arrested in a federal corruption investigation Wednesday along with an ostentatious gangster known as "Shrimp Boy" — who insisted that he had gone straight — and two dozen of their alleged associates.

An affidavit filed in federal court in San Francisco by FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua said there was probable cause to believe that Yee had conducted wire fraud and had engaged in a conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and illegally import firearms.

Yee, 65, was taken into custody in San Francisco on Wednesday and was seen being loaded into an unmarked law enforcement vehicle under an umbrella, his wrists handcuffed behind his back. He was set to be released on $500,000 bond after surrendering his passport.

The affidavit paints a portrait of Yee that is by turns seedy and bumbling, and one deeply at odds with the high-minded image he had long cultivated. Yee, a candidate for secretary of state, is accused of being willing to take varied and numerous steps to solicit campaign donations and sidestep legal donation limits.

For instance, he is accused of seeking an official state Senate proclamation in the spring of 2013 praising the Ghee Kung Tong Freemason lodge in San Francisco. Yee sought the proclamation, according to the court complaint, in exchange for a $6,800 donation to one of his campaigns — a donation that was paid by an undercover FBI agent.

The organized crime figure known as Shrimp Boy, whose name is Raymond Chow, identifies himself as the "dragon head" of that Freemason organization on his Facebook page. The indictment says that Chow, 54, whose criminal history includes racketeering and robbery, has a position of "supreme authority" in the Triad, an international organized crime group.

You know much of the time when conservatives call out Democrats for shady dealings it is exaggerated or made up out of whole cloth, but THIS one is a solid hit.

The Right Wing will of course be even more over the moon since Yee was an avid gun control advocate who has now also indicted for running guns.

And for the cherry on top many of you may remember that it was Senator Yee who criticized how much Sarah Palin was paid by Cal State Stanislau for a speech she gave back in 2010, and received tons of hate mail for his troubles.

So you know there will be dancing around the old mansion in Arizona.

So go ahead conservatives take your shots. It is pretty clear this guy deserves it.

However that is one to your......your uh.......never mind I can't count that high.

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