Another high-ranking Democrat is once again caught in the web of corruption that seems to plague the party. According to a Friday report, Los Angeles prosecutors have hit Democratic City Councilman Curren Price with even more felony charges—further proving what conservatives have long argued: Democrats enrich themselves while selling out the people they claim to serve.

This week, the Los Angeles District Attorney filed two additional charges against Price, accusing him of brazenly embezzling public funds and manipulating government contracts for his own financial benefit. This comes on top of the five counts of embezzlement filed against him in 2023, to which he pleaded not guilty.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman didn’t mince words about the Democrat’s behavior:
“Embezzling public funds and awarding contracts for your own financial gain is the antithesis of public service. Our communities expect and deserve better from their public officials.”

Hochman added:
“I thank our investigative team and prosecutors in the Public Integrity Division for diligently pursuing every lead and holding elected officials accountable. Self-dealing and pay-to-play politics will not be tolerated in Los Angeles County.”

The charges read like a textbook case of Democrat corruption. The DA’s office revealed that Price’s wife raked in more than $800,000 from government agencies while he voted to funnel those same agencies millions in taxpayer money. Between 2019 and 2021, Del Richardson & Associates, a company owned solely by Price’s wife, was paid over $150,000 by developers whose projects Price later supported. Price also stands accused of pocketing roughly $33,800 in city funds between 2013 and 2017 to pay medical benefits for Richardson, fraudulently claiming she was his wife while still married to another woman.

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles paid Richardson’s company nearly $610,000 while Price approved a $35 million federal grant and backed a $252 million state grant for the agency. His staff even flagged the conflict of interest beforehand, but Price ignored it. LA Metro also forked over about $220,000 to Richardson’s firm, and during the same time frame, Price introduced and voted for a motion to hand Metro $30 million. Again, staff flagged the conflict, and again Price pushed ahead. Price allegedly steered over $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds to a nonprofit called Home at Last, an organization that just happened to be a tenant of a project he ran as CEO.

For over a decade, Democrats like Price have run Los Angeles into the ground with corruption, favoritism, and backroom deals while crime and homelessness spiral out of control. Price is hardly the only Democrat facing serious legal peril. Across the country, grand juries in Virginia and Maryland are considering criminal indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Senator Adam Schiff, two of Trump’s loudest political enemies. Both are accused of falsifying property records to secure sweetheart mortgage deals.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has already appointed Ed Martin as Special Attorney to handle their prosecution, emphasizing just how serious these charges are. Mortgage fraud, bank fraud, and wire fraud each carry prison sentences of up to 30 years. As Martin explained:
“Attorney General Bondi and President Trump have given me a very serious mission. I am committed to going where the facts take me. For months DOJ and the FBI have been working on these two cases, it is my job to stick the landing.”

While the media does its best to shield Democrats from scrutiny, the facts keep piling up: from Hunter Biden’s shady foreign deals, to Schiff’s suspected leaks, to Letitia James’ politically motivated lawfare, and now Curren Price’s brazen embezzlement. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue exposing this corruption and fighting to restore honesty in government. Every new Democrat scandal proves the GOP right: the real “threat to democracy” is the left’s endless corruption and abuse of power.