In a move to correct a previous wrong, the Los Angeles City Council today, voted to re-instate the salary and benefits of suspended Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas.
A 61-year-old man has been charged in the cold case murder of an insurance adjustor killed during a robbery at his South Los Angeles home in 1981, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
L.A. County is known for having the best trauma care systems in the world, with South L.A. alone making up 20 percent of trauma related death with a mortality rate of 3.6 percent. With the reopening of King Community Hospital this summer, medical leaders have high hopes these numbers continue to decrease.
Supervisor Ridley-Thomas joined by other medical leaders speak out about King hospital
U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer sentenced former L.A. City Council member Mark Ridley-Thomas, 68, to three years and six months on Monday, August 28. Judge Fischer ordered Ridley-Thomas to pay a $30,000 fine, and he will be subject to three years of supervised release.
U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer sentenced former L.A. City Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas, 68, to three years and six months today, August 28. Judge Fischer also ordered Ridley-Thomas to pay a $30,000 fine.
On Monday, June 26, Judge Dale S. Fischer will hear two motions by former Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas’ defense team to reconsider the jury’s guilty verdicts, which were rendered in March of this year.
The conviction of former L.A. City Councilmember and one-time power broker and kingmaker Mark Ridley-Thomas on federal corruption charges should serve as a cautionary tale to Black politicians (and those aspiring to be one) that what others might get away with – they can’t. Well, that and, of course, just don’t do it, to begin with.
Whatever other lessons we glean from the targeting, accusation, indictment, trial, trashing and conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas and the dual response to all this by us and others, we know it’s more complex and questionable than is suggested by the deceptive and disarming phrase “justice has been served.”