{"id":6025,"date":"2014-03-28T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2014-03-28T19:42:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T19:42:55","slug":"gun-grabbing-ca-senator-nabbed-in-gun-running-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/28\/gun-grabbing-ca-senator-nabbed-in-gun-running-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Grabbing CA Senator Nabbed in Gun Running Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat State Senator Leland Yee of California has been arrested for facilitating gun running from the Philippines in exchange for campaign contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Leland, a longtime gun control proponent, is also being charged with selling legislative influence. Authorities allege that Yee is one part of a large investigation involving organized crime, gun trafficking, drugs, bribes and contracted murder.<\/p>\n<p>While corruption and hypocrisy from lawmakers is a common occurrence, Yee has taken it to a new level. The activities in the criminal complaint detail organized crime being run out of a prominent CA legislator\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/megalextoria.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/gun-grabbing-ca-senator-nabbed-in-gun.html\">Gun Grabbing CA Senator Nabbed in Gun Running Sting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat State Senator Leland Yee of California has been arrested for facilitating gun running from the Philippines in exchange for campaign contributions. Leland, a longtime gun control proponent, is also being charged with selling legislative influence. Authorities allege that Yee is one part of a large investigation involving organized crime, gun trafficking, drugs, bribes and contracted murder. While corruption and hypocrisy from lawmakers is a common occurrence, Yee has taken it to a new level. The activities in the criminal complaint detail organized crime being run out of a prominent CA legislator\u2019s office. via Gun Grabbing CA Senator Nabbed in Gun Running Sting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[371,503,1023],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-california","tag-corruption","tag-leland-yee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}