LOS ANGELES : Companies to Pay $19,300 for Illegal Contributions
- Share via
Two companies have agreed to pay a total of $19,300 in fines to the city of Los Angeles after conceding that they used intermediaries to illegally conceal the source of $3,000 in campaign contributions they made in 1991 to now-Councilman Mike Hernandez.
The city Ethics Commission is scheduled Thursday to consider settlements with Precision Engine Volume, which admitted it hid the source of $2,500 in donations, and with Borbon Inc., which admitted it hid the source of a $500 contribution.
Under the City Charter, individuals and companies are guilty of money-laundering if they use employees or others to disguise the source of campaign contributions.
In a proposed settlement, the Ethics Commission cited no evidence that Hernandez knew the contributions were illegal.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
Why is California’s wildfire strategy wrong for SoCal? After massive blazes, the state changed its approach, but it only works for the north. Listen to find out what officials are doing wrong — and the surprising strategy they’re turning to next.
In 1990, UCLA student Ronald Baker was murdered in a railway tunnel. While his occult interests fueled “Satanic Panic” rumors, police found his killers knew him well — one had even carried his casket.
A gunman targeted an elementary school in Rancho Tehama after a deadly rampage. The media barely covered it. Five years later, an L.A. Times reporter wants to know why.
