(Clifford Oto/The Record via AP)In August 2016, the mayor of Stockton, Calif., was accused of playing strip poker with teenagers and secretly recording them at his youth camp. Seven months before his airport arrest, Silva was accused of providing alcohol to minors, playing a game of strip poker and filming the game. “That clip contains audio of a conversation between participants involved in a strip poker game that occurred in Silva’s bedroom. The driver and passengers, including a woman who accused Silva of inappropriately touching her, filed a lawsuit. Then, he claimed during a 2016 candidate debate hosted by Stockton’s NAACP and Black Women Organized for Political Action that he was the city’s first black mayor.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 17:37 UTC