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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Residents successful Fresno's District 5 received a mailer accusing Fresno City Council campaigner Brandon Vang of alleged statutory rape for a lawsuit dating backmost to 1993.
The mailer is coming from a radical called "Fresno Future Forward" and the code listed for the enactment leads backmost to a UPS store.
In a property league connected March 10, a fewer days earlier the peculiar predetermination connected March 18, Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz said they instantly opened up an probe astir who was down the mailers.
"My bureau and I mean to determination rapidly and expeditiously lone arsenic we bash with each matters," Janz said during the property conference. "Voters person a close to cognize nether the instrumentality who is down these mailers truthful that they whitethorn marque an informed determination astir who they volition ballot for to correspond the residents of Council District 5."
Janz said what triggered their probe was not truthful overmuch the contented of the mailers but to find retired if the sanction was listed successful the mailer. "Fresno Future Forward" was successful compliance with Campaign Finance Laws.
"Let maine beryllium clear: my probe is lone astir the enforcement of run concern laws," helium said. "Mailers and an magnitude greater adjacent to $1,000 which would trigger an automatic request to registry these autarkic expenditures with our Fresno City Clerk Todd Stermer.
Janz said they program to enactment rapidly earlier the predetermination adjacent week.
"The City Attorney has subpoena power, truthful we volition usage each of our ineligible tools astatine our disposal to find retired who sent them out," Janz said.
As for the mailer itself, it is accusing Vang of alleged statutory rape of a 15-year-old miss and includes a representation of tribunal documents from 1993.
Vang has denied each the allegations and said they volition prosecute ineligible enactment if necessary.
Janz said erstwhile they find retired who is down the mailers they volition update the nationalist with that information.
