Santa Clara Councilmember Anthony Becker pleads XXX
Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker has pleaded not guilty for allegedly leaking a confidential civil grand jury report to the San Francisco 49ers last year and lying about it.on a felony perjury charge and a misdemeanor charge for leaking the document, which criticized the council’s cozy relationship with the NFL team, to former 49ers spokesperson Rahul Chandhok and to reporters or editors at the Silicon Valley Voice.
The public defender told reporters after his plea that in his experience, “first time impressions of a case are often wrong or incomplete.”His next court date is August 2. However, some of Becker’s colleagues, like Councilmember Suds Jain and Vice Mayor Kevin Park, have stated the legal process should play out first before any decisions are made in regard to his status on the council.
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