LOS ANGELES—A brief status conference was held Nov. 8 in the corruption case against Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas and Marilyn Flynn, a former dean of the USC School of Social Work. Both made their first appearance this morning before the federal judge overseeing their case, but a new trial date was not yet scheduled. During the 10-minute hearing, in which Ridley-Thomas and Flynn appeared via Zoom, the judge heard a summary of the prosecution and requested both sides to stipulate the need for a new trial date due to the cancellation of the December trial date, which was previously set during their arraignments last month. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ruth C. Pinkel described the case as a “fraud and bribery case … the conduct is purely about Mark Ridley-Thomas’s conduct while he was on the Board of Supervisors.” Pinkel told the court that her office has produced 35,000 pages of evidentiary material, with more to come. She said the prosecution’s …