Former state Sen. Leland Yee leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Courthouse after receiving a five year prison sentence and a $20,000 fine in a federal bribery and corruption case in San Francisco ...

Former state Sen. Leland Yee faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine after a deal in federal court Wednesday in which he pleaded guilty to one felony count of racketeering.

Democratic State Senator Leland Yee was arrested Wednesday morning in a series of federal raids in the Bay Area and Sacramento targeting an alleged corruption conspiracy involving arms trafficking ...

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 7/17/2014, pg. A4) A headline on a story misspelled the last name of suspended state Sen. Leland Yee. A new racketeering charge handed up by a federal grand jury ...

Within eyeshot of the capitol dome sit buildings filled with warrens of cubicles equipped with phones and little else. Every day, elected representatives amble out of the former structure and into the ...

California state Sen. Leland Yee was indicted last week on charges of international arms trafficking in exchange for campaign contributions. Yee, who championed gun control legislation, allegedly ...

SAN FRANCISCO — State Sen. Leland Yee dropped out of the race for secretary of state Thursday as California reeled from lurid allegations of international arms deals, corruption and Chinatown ...

An FBI affidavit says Yee talked with the undercover agent about acquiring weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder-fired missiles, from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines.

SACRAMENTO -- The history of politics is littered with unorthodox and illegal schemes to raise campaign cash, but the method allegedly used by Sen. Leland Yee stands apart. A criminal complaint ...

Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee was arrested by the FBI on charges related to dealing illegal firearms, and accepting inappropriate campaign contributions. An undercover FBI agent worked to expose ...

As details of state Sen. Leland Yee’s alleged crimes trickled out, advocates associated with gun-rights groups jumped on the possible ironies. An affidavit filed in federal court in San ...

Leland Yee tried to avoid photographers as he left the Federal building in San Francisco, Calif. Former State Senator Leland Yee pleaded guilty Wednesday July 1, 2015 to charges of racketeering ...