The ask stems from a previous corruption scandal for which former Councilman Mitch Englander was sentenced to prison. Lee, who did not respond to a request for comment, was Englander’s chief …
When the Los Angeles City Council last month voted to suspend yet another member of its ranks, Mark Ridley-Thomas, in the wake of federal corruption charges, some residents in west San Fernando Valley questioned why the panel had not done the same with another member wrapped up in an earlier corruption scandal.
Lee has not been charged with any crime. But speculation has persisted as recently as last month, when the federal indictment accused Ridley-Thomas of engaging in bribery while he was a county supervisor. Zach Volet, a West Hills resident and member of the alliance who helped to write the letter said that this issue has been “hanging over our heads since was elected.”
The alliance, meanwhile, also sent a similar letter about Lee to the planning committee’s chair, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, making the same demand for the 12th District councilman to be removed from the committee. Volet said the group hoped to appeal to the chair, because he recently aired his own reservations about Lee.
“Mr. Ridley-Thomas’ alleged crimes occurred before he was seated on the Council, just as Mr. Lee’s did,” the letter said. “If Councilmember Ridley-Thomas can be suspended for actions taken prior to his election, we see no reason that the same standard can’t apply to Councilmember Lee who was employed by the Council as Mr. Englander’s Chief of Staff at the time of the Vegas trip.”
His statement did not respond directly to the contents of the neighborhood council’s resolution, which tied him to the allegations described in FBI filings.
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