By David Zahniser and Dakota Smith | LA Times
Los Angeles City Councilmembers Curren Price and Kevin de León, who have been caught up in separate scandals, were brought back onto a handful of committees by Council President Paul Krekorian in a decision announced Wednesday.
Price, who represents part of South L.A., voluntarily stepped down from his committees after he was charged with embezzlement, perjury and conflict of interest in June . He has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence.
De León, whose district includes part of the Eastside, appeared on a secretly recorded conversation featuring racist and derogatory remarks that became public in October 2022. In the uproar that followed, he was removed from all of his committees by acting Council President Mitch O’Farrell.
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