{"id":705321,"date":"2026-08-29T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705321"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:47:31","slug":"cash-buried-in-democrat-l-a-politicians-backyard-helped-expose-marijuana-corruption-scheme-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705321","title":{"rendered":"Cash buried in (Democrat) L.A. politician\u2019s backyard helped expose marijuana corruption scheme &#8211; Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A Baldwin Park council member\u2019s $62,000 stash of backyard cash tipped off investigators to a pay-to-play marijuana licensing racket, turning a local \u201cgreen rush\u201d into a sprawling federal corruption case.<\/li>\n<li>Ricardo Pacheco was sentenced to up to 18 months in prison and must forfeit nearly $220,000, while former Compton Councilmember Isaac Galvan received 18 months and owes more than $320,000.<\/li>\n<li>Court filings depict a network of city officials, consultants and cannabis operators trading bribes for permits, campaign cash and contracts, implicating multiple San Gabriel Valley communities and fueling still-unfolding investigations into California\u2019s legalized weed industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/esRYA#selection-3091.0-3103.279\">https:\/\/archive.ph\/esRYA#selection-3091.0-3103.279<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Baldwin Park council member\u2019s $62,000 stash of backyard cash tipped off investigators to a pay-to-play marijuana licensing racket, turning a local \u201cgreen rush\u201d into a sprawling federal corruption case. Ricardo Pacheco was sentenced to up to 18 months in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705322,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705321\/revisions\/705322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}