{"id":1493,"date":"2023-07-01T03:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2023-07-01T03:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T03:51:18","slug":"democratic-la-city-councilman-charged-with-embezzlement-conflict-of-interest-in-latest-political-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/democratic-la-city-councilman-charged-with-embezzlement-conflict-of-interest-in-latest-political-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic LA city councilman charged with embezzlement, conflict of interest in latest political scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles City Council<\/a> has been arrested on charges of financial corruption \u2013 the fourth council member to be arrested in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council member Curren Price was charged Tuesday in connection to an alleged pay-to-play scheme. His arraignment is not yet scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s charges against Councilman Curren Price are the result of a thorough investigation into allegations of public corruption. This alleged conduct undermines the integrity of our government and erodes the public&#8217;s trust in our elected officials,&#8221; District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n said Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/democratic-la-city-councilman-charged-with-embezzlement-conflict-of-interest-in-latest-political-scandal\/ar-AA1cxGzP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Los Angeles City Council has been arrested on charges of financial corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/fightingcorruptionandworkriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}