BREAKING NEWS: CROOKED Long-Time Vernon Mayor LEONIS MALBURG, age 80, and wife Dominica, age 83, sentenced to Probation and fined $600,000 for voter fraud!

JUSTICE IN VERNON!

LOS ANGELES – I hope every seedy politician in Los Angeles County is paying attention to this amazing story that tonight is "breaking" out of the corrupt City of Vernon, CA.

The man who served as Vernon’s mayor for more than a half-century and his wife were sentenced today to probation and ordered to pay more than $600,000 in fines and penalties following their conviction last month for voter fraud and other charges.

Leonis Malburg, 80, was barred from holding any elective office and placed on five years probation and by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson. The judge found the couple guilty Dec. 4 following a court trial. Malburg’s 83-year-old wife, Dominica, was placed on three years probation, said Deputy District Attorneys Max Huntsman and Jonlyn Callahan, who prosecuted the case.

Malburg was ordered to pay a total of $183,800 in fines and penalty assessments and more than $395,000 in restitution to the City of Vernon for salary, benefits and travel for the time he was elected in April 11, 2006. His wife was ordered to pay $36,000 in fines and penalties.

“For several decades this family has treated the City of Vernon as a solely owned family enterprise,” District Attorney Steve Cooley said. “That is not the way government is supposed to work.”

The couple was found guilty of conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud, fraudulent voting and voter registration fraud. In addition, Leonis Malburg was convicted of a public official aiding illegal votes, false declaration of candidacy, voter registration fraud, perjury by declaration, fraudulent voting and assisting an unqualified voter (his wife).

Their son, John, former dean of students at Daniel Murphy Catholic High School, pleaded no contest last year to conspiracy, voter registration fraud and perjury. In a separate and unrelated case, he pleaded guilty to child molestation. He currently is serving an eight-year prison term.

Even though all three registered to vote in Vernon, the judge said none of the Malburg’s lived there. While maintaining apartments on Leonis Boulevard and 50th Street in Vernon, the family actually lived in Hancock Park.

In a nutshell, no one is ABOVE the law, regardless of your age.  Vernon has been nothing more than a modern day "mob family" who ontrolled tens of millions of dollars year in and year out, and their house of cards just crumbled!

Randy Economy


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