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: Legal Pad | LAPerata kickback investigation ends
By Richard Binder
Federal prosecutors on
Wednesday declined to file corruption charges against former state Senate leader Don Perata, clearing the way for his campaign for Oakland
mayor next year. The U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento announced
its decision 2 1/2 months after federal prosecutors in San Francisco
reached the same conclusion. The case began in 2004,
when federal agents raided the homes of Perata and his son, Nick. The
son's political consulting firm had been paid tens of thousands of
dollars from his father's campaigns. The investigation widened
and focused on Perata's relationship with campaign donors and whether
any of that money was diverted to family members and eventually kicked
back to him.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).
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