Williamson is a longtime Democratic power player in Sacramento. She was a cabinet secretary for former governor Jerry Brown before opening her own political affairs firm. She was also Becerra’s campaign manager when he ran for attorney general in 2018, and she later rejoined state government as Newsom’s chief of staff.
Roughly $225,000 in funds were diverted from Becerra’s political campaign coffers to “an associate’s personal use”, between February 2022 and 2024 – a time that overlapped when Williamson was serving as Newsom’s chief of staff, according to the indictment, which was unsealed upon her arrest.
California politics has long been notably vile and corrupt. But they normally steal from the taxppayer not each other….
That’s probably the real reason she was arrested.
They steal where they can.
I’m jaded. My initial reaction was “all this for $225,000?” Seems like chickenfeed. Newsome probably steals that much weekly.