LOS ANGELES—A longtime lobbyist and former City Hall official was sentenced Monday to six months’ home detention for conspiring with now-imprisoned ex-Councilmember José Huizar in a bribery scheme.
Morrie Goldman was also ordered to pay a $60,000 fine and serve three years of federal probation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Goldman pleaded guilty in September 2020 to a felony count of conspiring to commit bribery and honest services mail fraud in the government’s investigation of corruption at City Hall.
Although the charge carries possible sentence of up to five years behind bars, Goldman received the non-custodial sentence as a result of his cooperation in the investigation, court papers show….