The president of the Los Angeles City Council said he will file a motion Wednesday to suspend a councilman charged with embezzlement, perjury and other crimes in the latest scandal among leadership of the nation’s second-largest city.
Council President Paul Krekorian said he was shocked by the criminal complaint against Curren Price Jr., who he referred to as “a friend and colleague” while stressing that the presumption of innocence is a bedrock principle of the legal system.
