{"id":15303,"date":"2013-10-31T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-31T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:34:32","slug":"the-calderons-bribes-and-fake-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/31\/the-calderons-bribes-and-fake-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calderons, Bribes, and Fake Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/user\/utbriancl\/media\/senator_calderon_zps629981d3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/senator_calderon_zps629981d3.jpg\" width=250 align=right border=\"0\" alt=\" photo senator_calderon_zps629981d3.jpg\"\/><\/a><i>State Senator caught in undercover sting<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Calderons and corruption? Well, shocking as it may be, Sen. Ron Calderon is currently involved in an undercover corruption sting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State Sen. Ronald Calderon accepted bribes from a Southern California hospital executive who ran an alleged workers&#8217; compensation scheme that brought the executive tens of millions of dollars, according to a sealed FBI affidavit obtained by Al Jazeera&#8217;s Investigative Unit.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for payments to family members, Calderon, a Democrat who represents a suburban district here, protected the interests in Sacramento of Michael Drobot, who ran a busy spinal surgery clinic in Long Beach, Calif., the affidavit says. The document says Calderon ensured that changes to state law would not injure Drobot&#8217;s lucrative business of providing spinal fusion surgery, which joins two or more vertebrae. (<a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/30\/fbi-california-statesenatoraidedallegedmultimilliondollarfraud.html\">Al Jazeera America<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article reads like an old school political hack job, but Al Jazeera says they got the material from the FBI affidavit. Stay classy Calderons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/user\/utbriancl\/media\/senator_calderon_zps629981d3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/senator_calderon_zps629981d3.jpg\" width=250 align=right border=\"0\" alt=\" photo senator_calderon_zps629981d3.jpg\"\/><\/a><i>State Senator caught in undercover sting<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Calderons and corruption? Well, shocking as it may be, Sen. Ron Calderon is currently involved in an undercover corruption sting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State Sen. Ronald Calderon accepted bribes from a Southern California hospital executive who ran an alleged workers&#8217; compensation scheme that brought the executive tens of millions of dollars, according to a sealed FBI affidavit obtained by Al Jazeera&#8217;s Investigative Unit.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for payments to family members, Calderon, a Democrat who represents a suburban district here, protected the interests in Sacramento of Michael Drobot, who ran a busy spinal surgery clinic in Long Beach, Calif., the affidavit says. The document says Calderon ensured that changes to state law would not injure Drobot&#8217;s lucrative business of providing spinal fusion surgery, which joins two or more vertebrae. (<a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/30\/fbi-california-statesenatoraidedallegedmultimilliondollarfraud.html\">Al Jazeera America<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article reads like an old school political hack job, but Al Jazeera says they got the material from the FBI affidavit. Stay classy Calderons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[3824,1782],"class_list":["post-15303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3824","tag-1782"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3YP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}