City Councilman Curren Price — already facing multiple charges of grand theft and perjury for allegedly voting in favor of projects in which his wife had a financial interest — is due in L.A. criminal court again Thursday after being hit with two new public corruption charges.
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the two new counts against the 74-year-old councilman from the Ninth District, which includes most of South Los Angeles and Exposition Park — a district Price has represented since 2013 after previously serving in the Assembly and state Senate.
He was previously charged in June 2023 with five felony counts of embezzlement of government funds, three felony counts of perjury and two felony counts of conflict of interest and pleaded not guilty.
Price — who has maintained his innocence — i