A wealthy Mexican businessman accused of making illegal campaign donations to candidates in San Diego’s 2012 mayoral race was convicted Friday of 36 counts, including conspiracy to make campaign donations by a foreign national. Jose Susumo Azano Matsura also was found guilty in federal court of making contributions in other people’s names and falsifying records related to campaign finance. Bonnie Dumanis and Democratic Rep. Bob Filner when both were running for San Diego mayor in 2012. Prosecutors said Azano secretly paid Singh’s company, which specialized in political social media campaigns, to work for Dumanis and later Filner. Prosecutors said he was the go-between who got Azano and his money to the campaigns and political professionals.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 09, 2016 21:44 UTC