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A City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem in the small Southern California town of Adelanto has been arrested as the focal point of an FBI sting dealing directly with the medical marijuana industry, the Victorville Daily Press reports. According to the federal criminal complaint, Jermaine Wright, a local politician and proprietor of Adelanto’s Fat Boyz Grill restaurant, accepted $10,000 in bribes from an undercover FBI agent for a series of political actions made to assist a fictional medical marijuana company in subverting local zoning codes.
The political corruption case all started earlier this year, when on June 15th, an FBI informant introduced Wright to an undercover agent pretending to be a medical marijuana businessman looking to buy land in Adelanto. In a plan proposed by the agent, the fed said that he wanted to buy a plot of land outside of the city’s allowed marijuana cultivation zone, with the eventual goal being that, for the right price, Wright would influence the City Council to rezone the property to permit a cannabis grow. After negotiating a personal cut of $20,000 for his zoning vote,…
