CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Ex-Montoya Aide Offered Plea Bargain

Prosecutors have offered a plea bargain to a former state Senate aide indicted in the FBI’s probe of state Capitol corruption, according to a defense lawyer. The attorney, Chris Wing, said his client, Amiel Jaramillo, has been given a chance to plead guilty to a lesser charge. Jaramillo, once the top aide to ex-state Sen. Joseph B. Montoya (D-Whittier), was accused by federal grand jurors of shaking down special interests for campaign and speech money for his boss. Montoya was convicted in February on seven counts of corruption.