The State - News from May 8, 1988

Former Sacramento County Supervisor Bill Bryan has agreed to pay a record $290,000 to settle a suit in which the state accused him of political corruption and failure to report financial interests. “The settlement represents the largest civil penalty ever imposed for a violation of the Political Reform Act,” said Gregory Baugher, state Fair Political Practices Commission executive director. Bryan, 50, who resigned from the board in 1986 after the suit was filed, admitted to 55 of the 60 allegations made by the state political watchdog agency. He had served six years on the board. A key admission made by Bryan, according to the FPPC, was that he knew that Sacramento developer Angelo K. Tsakopoulos was the true source of $256,700 in loans that Bryan failed to disclose.