“Did our client, Dr. Mark Ridley-Thomas, pressure you in any way to vote for this proposal?” asked defense attorney Arturo Gonzalez about a plan to extend a USC contract for a remote mental health clinic.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-22/ridley-thomas-rests-his-defense-with-expert-noting-legal-donation

Former Los Angeles County Supervisor and suspended Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas was convicted on a slew of corruption charges.

Source: https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/04/08/southern-california-pols-mark-ridley-thomas-and-nathan-fletcher-go-down-in-flames/

In December 2017, citing health issues, Ridley-Thomas' son abruptly resigned from the California State Assembly.

Source: https://www.culvercityobserver.com/story/2023/08/31/news/mark-ridley-thomas-sentenced-to-3andfrac12-years-in-prison/12788.html

It is precisely because Ridley-Thomas served an underfunded and underappreciated section of the city and is a seasoned politician that we should be angry over the behavior that led to his corruption conviction.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2023-04-07/mark-ridley-thomas-constituent-corruption-conviction

Ridley-Thomas subsequently was elected to the Los Angeles City Council, which suspended him after a federal grand jury in October 2021 indicted him in this case, and he was permanently removed from the City Council following the guilty verdicts.

Source: https://www.culvercityobserver.com/story/2023/08/31/news/mark-ridley-thomas-sentenced-to-3andfrac12-years-in-prison/12788.html

Ridley-Thomas voted on that renewal a few months later.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-28/ridley-thomas-sentencing

Ridley-Thomas was suspended from the City Council in 2021.

Source: https://abc7.com/mark-ridley-thomas-heather-hutt-city-council-paul-krekorian/13113139/

The typically verbose Ridley-Thomas was quiet through the night.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-07/on-the-heels-of-church-prayers-in-south-l-a-mrt-trial-begins

With his insistence on taking his case to a jury of his peers, Ridley-Thomas stands apart.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-06/la-councilman-mark-ridley-thomas-donors-defense-bribery-corruption-charges