It was a tragically banal slice of vicious, small-time power brokering. Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
Yes, the saga of Isa Bahu and his family’s gas station reads like a bad dime store novel. But it could cost Anaheim millions nonetheless.