Newsom issues new statement on former top aide’s indictment
(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a new statement on Wednesday following the indictment of his former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. Williamson is facing a number of federal charges, including conspiring to commit bank and wire fraud. She is accused of leading a scheme to fraudulently transfer $225,000 from a dormant campaign […]
(FOX40.COM) -- Political consultant Dana Williamson, who served as the Chief of Staff to Gov. Gavin Newsom from 2023 to 2024, was indicted on numerous charges of Fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The DOJ said Williamson was indicted by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to commit…
(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — Political commentators Andrew Acosta and Tim Rosales joined Inside California Politics' Nikki Laurenzo to discuss a corruption case surrounding former high-level advisors to Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. On Wednesday, Dana Williamson, who served as chief of staff to…
UPDATE-2:43 pm PST Secretary Becerra shared the following statement with FOX40: “The news today of formal accusations of impropriety by a long-serving trusted advisor are a gut punch. I have voluntarily cooperated with the US Department of Justice in their investigation, and will continue to do so. As California’s former…