ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

California State Sen. Leland Yee, of San Francisco, is yet another member of the Model Minority who does not fit the ideal. Yee was recently charged with trafficking in firearms while a public official. He is accused of “buying automatic firearms and shoulder-launched missiles from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an Islamist extremist group located in the southern Philippines and attempting to re-sell those weapons to an undercover FBI agent, as well as accepting a $10,000 bribe from an undercover agent in exchange for placing a call to the California Department of Public Health regarding a contract at the organization.”

It’s quite a disturbing story. From the Los Angeles Times:

In all, 26 people, including former school board president Keith Jackson, were indicted on charges related to an extensive crime ring headed by well-known Chinatown figure Raymond Chow, who was also arrested and charged Wednesday.

The indictment alleges Yee and Jackson defrauded “citizens of honest services” and were involved in a scheme to traffic firearms in exchange for thousands in campaign donations to the senator.

Federal prosecutors also allege Yee agreed to perform official acts in exchange for the money, including one instance in which he introduced a businessman to state legislators who had significant influence over pending medical marijuana legislation. In exchange, the businessman — who was actually an undercover FBI agent — agreed to donate thousands to Yee’s campaign fund, according to the indictment.

The indictment also describes an August 2013 exchange in which Jackson told an undercover officer that Yee had an arms-trafficking contact. Jackson allegedly said Yee could facilitate a meeting for a donation.

Of course, the LA Times doesn’t mention that Yee is a naturalized U.S. citizen, originally born in China, who was brought to the U.S. by his parents when he was three years old; or that he was arrested for shoplifting in Hawaii when he was 44 years old and a member of the San Francisco School Board, or that he fled prosecution in Hawaii.

It’s fair to assume that, if these charges are true, his legislative opposition to private ownership of semiautomatic weapons was intended to drive up the street price of the weapons he and his Hong Kong Triad confederates were busy trafficking.

Note that Leland Yee spent the majority of his formative years and the entirety of his adult life as a resident and citizen of the United States.

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