LOS ANGELES—Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan was sentenced Friday to 12 years in federal prison for acting as the intermediary in convicted ex-Councilman José Huizar’s $1.5 million City Hall pay-to-play scheme with downtown high-rise developers.
Chan, 68, of Monterey Park worked for the city for more than three decades, much of it at the Department of Building and Safety, where he became general manager. In 2016, he was hired by then-Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as deputy mayor over economic development, supervising the Planning Department, Building and Safety, and other city agencies.
He was convicted in Los Angeles federal court in March of all 12 felony counts he faced: one count of conspiracy to violate the RICO Act, seven counts of honest services wire fraud, three counts of bribery, and one count of making false statements to a federal government agency….