Officials in the Los Angeles County cities of Commerce and Baldwin Park pleaded guilty in 2023 for their part in a scheme involving bribes for Baldwin Park politicians’ votes and sway over the granting of cannabis permits, it has been revealed.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Dec. 5 that Commerce’s former city manager, Edgar Pascual Cisneros, had pleaded guilty in November 2023 to federal charges over his involvement in a scheme to bribe local officials involved in the Baldwin Park cannabis permitting process. Cisneros had been city manager since November 2017.
