Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu is under investigation by the FBI following circulating allegations questioning the illegal sale of the Angel’s Stadium, according to a legal document released on May 16.
“SIDHU is engaged in an ongoing scheme to commit honest services fraud by sharing confidential information with representatives from the Los Angeles Angels Major League Baseball team (“the Angels”) regarding negotiations related to the City’s sale of Angel Stadium with the expectation of receiving a sizeable contribution to his reelection campaign from a prominent Angels representative,” FBI agent Brian Adkins speculated in a court filing (pdf).
The court documents, which included search warrants and telephone conversations between Sidhu and others regarding his scheme, concluded that Sidhu shared confidential information regarding the sale and kept information from “an Orange County Grand Jury and an Orange County Superior Court Judge.”…