| | The Florida Department of Transportation confirmed this week that planned construction projects on those three roads will be getting about $101 million in stimulus money. http://www.nitch.biz/girls-barbour-collection-c-30.html LOS ANGELES Two former high ranking Cudahy city officials agreed Thursday to plead guilty to federal charges they took bribes and participated in an extortion scheme involving a proposed pot dispensary. One time Cudahy Mayor David Silva, 61, and Angel Perales, 43, of Azusa, a former acting city manager described as the city's "bag man," each admitted to several other illegal acts while in office, Justice Department spokesman Thom Mrozek said. Perales also admitted to participating in voter fraud, Mrozek said. Despite the plea agreements, an attorney for Perales said the depth of corruption in the tiny southeast Los Angeles town of 25,000 had yet to be fully exposed. "When the full picture comes out, I think you will see a lot of what was going on was at the direction of other city officials, including the mayor and the city council," Perales' attorney Carlos Juarez of San Bernardino said. Silva's attorney, David Bisnow of Pasadena, did not return a phone call seeking comment. Cudahy lies in the heart of a group of Los Angeles County cities that have come under county, state and federal scrutiny in recent years. The city abuts the Los Angeles River just west of the 710 Freeway. It borders Bell, Huntington Park and South Gate and once shared a police department with Maywood. Last month officials released transcripts of an FBI wiretap that indicated Perales, Silva and City Councilman Osvaldo Conde took bribes in exchange for their support of a proposed medical marijuana clinic. The wiretaps laid out the workings of a corrupt city where cash was passed out in envelopes, prostitution was nearly legal and everyone from sheriff's deputies to low level city employees was on the take. Perales and Silva admitted to taking $5,000 each from the dispensary owner. Conde, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of taking $7,000. He was arrested at gunpoint after a standoff outside his office last month. The son, Osvaldo Conde Jr., has not been named as a suspect or defendant in the bribery and extortion case. It is unclear if he is still employed by Department of Homeland Security. Neither Conde nor his son could be reached for comment Thursday. A telephone number listed to the Conde home has been disconnected. An employee of the city since 1999, Perales worked his way up from being a maintenance man to acting city manager in April 2011. Until he resigned from City Hall in June, Perales was head of the city's Code Enforcement Department. It is unclear what Perales' actual salary was at the time he left. He is eligible to receive a pension. Perales' plea agreement describes how he rose in the ranks by serving as a gopher for then City Manager George Perez. The court documents detail how a developer's cash bribes were stuffed in shoe boxes and delivered to City Hall. Other bribes intended for city officials, including members of the City Council and the city manager, were picked up at a Denny's on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Some of the bribe money was distributed to city officials in the men's room at the Dal Rae Restaurant in Pico Rivera, according to the plea agreement. Perales also alleged he dispensed kickback money to Conde. The plea agreement lays out an elaborate prescription drug scam involving employees at City Hall, including a one time city manager. Perales also admitted to participating in voter fraud by registering his family members to vote at the Cudahy home of another city employee in the 5000 block of Elizabeth Street. Perales "and other city officials routinely and systematically opened the absentee ballots cast in the 2007 City Council election by mail," according to the statement of facts in Perales' plea agreement. "Ballots cast in favor of the incumbent candidates were resealed and returned to the mail to be counted. Ballots for non incumbent candidates were discarded." Perales and other city officials did the same thing during the 2009 Cudahy City Council election, according to a statement from Mrozek. Silva was first elected to the City Council in 1992. He not only admitted to taking bribe money from the FBI informant, but also took cash payments and bottles of expensive booze from a developer who had business before City Hall, according to his plea agreement. Among other admissions was a revelation that Silva agreed to accept a $50,000 payment from a developer who wanted to purchase land that the city owned. Silva alleges another $50,000 went to Conde. That "down payment" resulted in a deal to discount the price of the city owned property by $800,000, Mrozek said. The former mayor also admitted taking cash bribes from another developer who had a planned commercial project winding its way through City Hall, according to the plea agreement. He also admitted to participating in a scheme to take dollars from a massage parlor madame who offered cash in exchange for approvals. Although Silva had worked at a Hawthorne aerospace plant for 30 years, the court documents note he was laid off in 2002. The documents allege that a former city manager arranged for Silva to get a job in customer service with the man who held the city's tow contract. 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