{"id":51050,"date":"2022-10-07T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51050"},"modified":"2022-10-07T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:14:26","slug":"former-county-planning-commissioner-will-plead-guilty-to-bribery-charge-involving-cannabis-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51050","title":{"rendered":"Former County Planning Commissioner Will Plead Guilty to Bribery Charge Involving Cannabis Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5851 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Image-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Image-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Image-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Image-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Image-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Image.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/>A former San Bernardino County planning commissioner has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for funneling bribes through his company to a corrupt Baldwin Park politician in exchange for the politician\u2019s votes and influence over the city\u2019s cannabis permitting process, the Justice Department announced Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriel Chavez,\u00a065, of Upland, agreed to plead guilty to a one-count criminal information charging him with bribery. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50357 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/40657-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/40657-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/40657-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/40657-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/40657-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/40657.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Chavez is expected to enter a guilty plea in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The politician who solicited the bribes \u2013 former Baldwin Park City Councilmember Ricardo Pacheco \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/former-member-baldwin-park-city-council-pleads-guilty-bribery-and-admits-receiving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pleaded guilty in June 2021<\/a>\u00a0to a federal bribery charge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Federal prosecutors Friday also unsealed additional portions of Pacheco\u2019s plea agreement in which he admits to bribery schemes involving Chavez and other individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Pacheco was first elected to the Baldwin Park City Council in 1997 and served as mayor pro-tem in 2018. He resigned from the city council in June 2021 and is awaiting sentencing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Both Chavez and Pacheco have signed plea agreements in which they have agreed to cooperate in the government\u2019s ongoing investigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to Chavez\u2019s plea agreement, in June 2017, Baldwin Park began permitting the cultivation, sale, and manufacturing of marijuana within its city limits. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Soon afterward, Pacheco decided to solicit bribe payments from businesses seeking marijuana development agreements and related permits in the city. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In exchange for the illicit payments, Pacheco agreed to use his position in city government to assist the companies with obtaining marijuana permits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chavez agreed to act as an intermediary to funnel those bribes to Pacheco by using his Claremont-based internet marketing company, Market Share Media Agency. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50341 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1063249.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In exchange for the bribes, Pacheco agreed to vote and use his influence over the city\u2019s permitting process to secure marijuana permits for two companies, identified in court documents as \u201cMarijuana Company 3\u201d and \u201cMarijuana Company 4.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pacheco and Chavez agreed that Pacheco would get 60% of the companies\u2019 bribe money while Chavez would retain the remainder as payment primarily for facilitating the bribes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chavez obtained bribe payments to pass to Pacheco from an individual identified in court papers as \u201cPerson 14,\u201d another public official, who was helping Marijuana Company 4 obtain its marijuana permit.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">To conceal the true nature of the payments, the bribes Chavez accepted were disguised as consulting payments from Person 14\u2019s consulting company to Market Share Media Agency.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">From August 2017 to March 2018, Chavez received at least $125,000 from Marijuana Company 3 and at least $45,000 on behalf of Marijuana Company 4, none of which he reported to the IRS as personal income or as his company\u2019s revenue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Chavez paid Pacheco between $80,000 and $93,000 in cash, out of at least $170,000 collected from both companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On multiple occasions, Chavez used coded language in text messages to tell Pacheco that he had cash bribes to pass to him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">For example, in January 2018, Chavez sent Pacheco a text message stating, \u201cI\u2019m planning to bring all the documents\u2026,\u201d by which Chavez meant he planned to bring Pacheco cash bribes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Per Chavez\u2019s agreement with Pacheco, the cash payments were in exchange for Pacheo\u2019s votes on the two companies\u2019 marijuana permits and Pacheco\u2019s help securing the necessary votes from other members of the Baldwin Park City Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pacheco performed his end of the bargain, voting in favor of Marijuana Company 3 and Marijuana Company 4\u2019s cannabis permits, first in December 2017 and later in May 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chavez further admitted in his plea agreement that Market Share Media Agency won a no-bid, $14,500 contract from the City of Huntington Park signed by Person 14. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The no-bid contract represented, in part, further compensation for Chavez in his efforts to facilitate the bribe to Pacheco to secure the marijuana permit for Marijuana Company 4 in Baldwin Park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">To further secure this permit, Person 14 gave Chavez a $5,000 check payable to the church associated with the school where Pacheco\u2019s child attended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chavez was appointed to the San Bernardino County Planning Commission in June 2018 but resigned in November 2018 after the FBI executed a search warrant at his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3971225646MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The FBI 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Rybarczyk and Lindsey Greer Dotson of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section are prosecuting this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0 A former San Bernardino County planning commissioner has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for funneling bribes through his company to a corrupt Baldwin Park politician in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former County Planning Commissioner Will Plead Guilty to Bribery 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