A staff member took the stand to describe how Santa Clara County Laurie Smith asked her to buy cheap tickets to a 2019 San Jose Sharks game to mask her use of a donated luxury suite that she was le…
SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith asked an underling to buy cheap tickets to a San Jose Sharks game in an effort to cover up her use of a donor’s luxury suite and bypass legal requirements to report the high-priced gift to a state watchdog agency, a county employee who worked for the sheriff testified Friday.
Sung and Jensen, who had been two of Smith’s closest advisers, have been relieved of duty for more than two years as the subjects of criminal bribery indictments related to the Sharks suite and separate allegations that they brokered pay-to-play issuing of concealed-carry weapons permits. In court Friday, San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Gabriel Markoff — who is prosecuting the trial because of conflicts declared by Santa Clara County staff — asked McCabe why Smith wanted to buy three $49 tickets when they planned to use the suite.
Markoff followed up with a reference to the standard state gift-reporting form, asking, “Did she specifically mention Form 700?”
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