Ex-State Senator Leland Yee Asks For Lighter Sentence Because Of Wife’s Illness

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – An attorney for an ex-California state senator convicted of racketeering asked a judge to consider the senator’s long history of public service and his wife’s illness and sentence him to no more than five years and three months in prison, below the 8-year sentence recommended by prosecutors.
Leland Yee has accepted responsibility for his crime and has otherwise led an exemplary life, his attorney, James Lassart, said in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesd