Sidney T. Graves

Sidney T. Graves was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors between 1926 and 1930. He was the only member of the county's governing body to be convicted of a crime and sent to prison. In 1933, the former supervisor was convicted of accepting a bribe concerning the building of a dam on the San Gabriel River. He served three years in state prison and was released, but he had to serve more time in a federal prison for evading taxes on the bribe.[1]

References

  1. ↑ George Garrigues, He Usually Lived With a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman, Los Angeles, Calif., 2006, page 106. ISBN 0-9634830-1-3

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