Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, resigned on Monday mid-day after he was implicated of seeking $1 million in a campaign payment from the Anaheim Angels in return for aiding help with the sale of their ballpark. He claims that he is innocent, yet he surrendered nonetheless. Federal prosecutors claim that on a minimum of 2 events, Sidhu supplied the ball club with private city info.
KABC reported:
” [Sidhu] is accused of obtaining $1 million in project contributions from an Angels agent in exchange for doing official acts that would certainly wrap up the stadium sale.”
Sidhu’s lawyer Paul S. Meyer claimed in a statement:
“Mayor Sidhu has always, as his foremost concern, acted in the very best interests of the city of Anaheim. In order to remain to act in the very best rate of interests of Anaheim and to allow this great city to move forward without diversion, Harry Sidhu has actually resigned from his message as mayor effective May 24, 2022.”
KABC reported:
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu has surrendered amidst an FBI’s corruption probe related to the sale of Angel Arena.
His resignation takes effect at midnight Tuesday.
The resignation comes as it was disclosed recently that the mayor was the topic of a probe by the FBI, which alleged in a search warrant affidavit that he had actually fed expert information to Angels executives in the stadium deal as well as organized to have a helicopter bought signed up in Arizona so he could save money on tax obligations.
The FBI alleges that Sidhu was intending to get a $1 million-dollar project donation from the group. That never taken place as well as the FBI claims the Angels were unaware of the plan, but this has actually been constructing for some time now.
“A fair and complete investigation will certainly confirm that Mayor Harry Sidhu did not leak secret info in the hopes of a later political campaign payment,” Sidhu’s Lawyer Paul S. Meyer claimed in a statement. “His unwavering goal form the begin has actually been to keep the Angels in Anaheim, to ensure that this lively social and economic partnership would certainly proceed.
