"BOMBSHELL: A New Ripple in Curren Price's Corruption Trial" by Daniel Guss

Why the long-delayed trial, slated to start today, was continued to April 25

In early 2017, my investigation into LA City Councilmember Curren De Mille Price led me to predict that criminal charges would eventually be filed against him.

But it wasn’t until 2023 that he was slammed with a 10-count indictment, with my columns — dated years before those from the Los Angeles Times — cited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office as the earliest basis.

I have long-maintained that more charges should have been filed, raising the issue of which additional charges and against whom, if not Price?

This morning, the trial was booted once again, to April 25th, apparently because new evidence may have surfaced from other grand jury activity.

Or, is that other grand juries, plural?

And that makes me wonder — if new defendants are added to the Price case — whether they have bargaining chips, such as information on other criminal activity.

Because why would there be more than one grand jury in the Price case?

Why, indeed…

(Daniel Guss, MBA, won the LA Press Club’s “Online Journalist of the Year” and “Best Activism Journalism” awards in June ‘23. In June ‘24, he won its “Best Commentary, Non-Political” award. He has contributed to the Daily Mail, CityWatchLA, KFI AM-640, iHeartMedia, 790-KABC, Cumulus Media, KCRW 89.9 FM, KRLA 870 AM, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, Movieline Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Pasadena Star-News, Los Angeles Downtown News and the Los Angeles Times in its sports, opinion, entertainment and Sunday Magazine sections among other publishers.)