Coliseum corruption caseUPDATES:3:05 p.m.: This article was updated with additional details about Raymond Chow’s sentence. “When Raymond Chow came to our class in the fall of 2006, I was skeptical about meeting him,” one student wrote. “Of course, the man who directly benefited from that murder was defendant Chow,” prosecutors said. Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow — the so-called dragonhead of a San Francisco Chinatown fraternal organization — was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for murder and other charges stemming from a massive corruption case that cost millions in taxpayer dollars and infiltrated the city’s political establishment. In February, Yee was sentenced to five years in prison for doing political favors in exchange for campaign cash.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 04, 2016 21:10 UTC