Ex-Mayor Pleads Guilty in Bribes-for-Votes Case
A former Colton mayor indicted in an ongoing corruption investigation in San Bernardino County has pleaded guilty to bribery in U.S. District Court, the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said Tuesday.
Karl Gaytan, 48, accepted more than $40,000 in bribes from commercial real estate developer Allan Steward between March 1997 and January 2000, according to federal court documents. Gaytan voted favorably for Steward’s proposal to build three chain restaurants in Colton and to sell land in a redevelopment project area, officials said.
Gaytan is one of eight defendants recently charged in the second phase of a broad corruption probe in the county.
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