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Leland Yin Yee (, born November 20, 1948) is a former Democratic California State Senator for District 8, which when he was elected, covered parts of San Francisco and the Peninsula. Yee was arrested by the FBI on March 26, 2014 on charges related to public corruption and gun trafficking — specifically buying automatic firearms and shoulder-launched missiles from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an Islamist extremist group located in the southern Philippines and attempting to re-sell those weapons to an undercover FBI agent, as well as accepting a $10,000 bribe from an undercover agent in exchange for placing a call to the California Department of Public Health regarding a contract at the organization.〔Lucas, Scott.(The Indictment Against Leland Yee Puts "The Wire's" Clay Davis to Shame ), ''San Francisco'', March 26, 2014.〕 Prior to becoming state senator, Yee was a California State Assemblyman, Supervisor of San Francisco's Sunset District, and was a member and President of the San Francisco School Board. In 2004 Yee became the first Asian American to be appointed Speaker pro Tempore, making him the second highest ranking Democrat of the California State Assembly. He is an award-winning gun control advocate.〔〔〔~~~~ (California State Sen. Leland Yee charged with promising guns, missiles from Muslim group to agent for campaign donations ) March 28, 2014〕 In response to the gun running and other criminal charges against him, the California State Senate suspended Yee as a Senator on March 28, 2014.〔McGreevy, Patrick. (In unprecedented move, state Senate votes to suspend three lawmakers ),''Los Angeles Times'', March 28, 2014.〕 On July 1, 2015, Yee pleaded guilty to a felony racketeering count in relation to money laundering, public corruption and bribery in a San Francisco Chinatown organized crime case. He is currently awaiting sentencing. Yee faces up to twenty years in prison. ==Early life and education== Leland Yee immigrated to San Francisco, California from his birthplace of Taishan, Guangdong, China, when he was three years old and later became a naturalized American citizen. His father served in the United States Army and in the American merchant marine.〔()〕 Young Yee attended middle school in San Francisco, at what is now Martin Luther King, Jr., Academic Middle School. He earned his baccalaureate at the University of California at Berkeley, a master's degree at San Francisco State University, and a doctorate in child psychology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leland Yee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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