A former deputy mayor was sentenced to 144 months in federal prison for soliciting and accepting more than $750,000 in bribe money for himself and facilitating over $1 million in bribes to a city councilmember as part of a racketeering conspiracy, the Justice Department announced Friday.
According to the DOJ, Raymond She Wah Chan helped conceive, lead, and operate a criminal racketeering enterprise that exploited the city approval process for large real estate development projects to exact bribes from developers.
The DOJ said Chan established and directed a secret business partnership with real estate development consultant George Chiang, securing ...
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