During the 2021 redistricting process to redraw Los Angeles City Council district maps, a closed-door conversation between three council members and a leading labor official about how they wanted district boundaries redrawn in their favor was secretly recorded, then released to the public a year later.
Even before the audio leak, L.A. City Hall had been battered by a series of scandals that sent former City Councilmembers José Huizar and Mitchell Englander to prison. But the explosive conversation...