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    New details show sprawling web of corruption in Southern California cannabis licensing

    by Adam Elmahrek, Ruben Vives, Robert J. Lopez and Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times Oct 15, 2022 4 minutes
    California Attorney General Rob Bonta, shown in July, was asked to create a task force to examine corruption in cannabis licensing.

    LOS ANGELES — As a California lawmaker called for a statewide task force to crack down on corruption in the legal cannabis market, new details are emerging in a bribery scandal that has ensnared local government officials from the Inland Empire to the San Gabriel Valley and southeast Los Angeles County.

    Federal prosecutors have unveiled two plea agreements that detail pay-to-play schemes involving cannabis business licensing and corroborate allegations in a Los Angeles Times investigation last month that examined how legalization of weed unleashed a wave of corruption across California.

    In one of the agreements, former Baldwin Park City Councilmember Ricardo Pacheco admitted soliciting bribes from weed businesses — including $150,000

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