The Piper Comes Calling
<p>While it is understandable that the Justice Department wants to do everything possible to assure the public that it does not take sides in elections, its policy of not taking action in the months before an election does just that. Voters deserve to have access to all the information available before heading to the polls and not informing them that a candidate may have engaged in criminal actions deprives them of the ability to make a fully informed decision.</p>
<p>Election workers were still counting votes in the March 3, 2020, race for the Los Angeles City Council’s District 12 seat when the Department of Justice announced that the person who had previously held the seat, Mitch Englander, had been arrested. Included in the <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6801725-City-Hall-Englander-INDICTMENT.html#document/p12/a555496" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">charging documents</a> was the description of a <a href="https://medium.com/groundgamela/it-didnt-stay-in-vegas-is-councilman-john-lee-city-staffer-b-c4c6f118ec4e?sk=51ecfa14131869b3f60be75f2451a24b" rel="noopener">corruption-fueled trip to Las Vegas</a> and the resulting coverup. Accompanying Englander on this trip was the person referred to as “City Staffer B.”</p>
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