Jermaine Wright, a 46-year-old Riverside resident, was sentenced on Monday to five years in federal prison, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California.
A former Adelanto city councilman convicted of taking a $10,000 bribe to help open a cannabis business and also hiring someone to burn down his restaurant for an insurance payout has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Investigators began a looking into possible corruption in the San Bernardino County city in early 2017 , according to the prosecutors.In June that year, a confidential informant introduced Wright to an undercover FBI agent who went by the name “Steve” at Wright’s restaurant, Fat Boyz Grill, in Adelanto, according to a pre-sentencing report filed by prosecutors Sept. 19.
The councilman told the informant that the money had to go to a nonprofit set up to conceal their scheme and that he would put the informant on the nonprofit’s board so they could receive the money as well, the report stated. “Defendant said that his insurance policy provided $300,000 in coverage,” according to the report."[The undercover agent] said the cost of the arson would be up to $1,500. Defendant explained that the fire would have to burn quickly because the fire department was just down the street from his restaurant and the fire department would probably arrive within five minutes of the fire starting.
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