Price faces corruption charges for voting in favor of multiple measures that prosecutors allege would financially benefit his wife.
Sources told The Times that prosecutors sought grand jury testimony by Price’s wife, real estate consultant Del Richardson.
New documents made public Thursday show prosecutors considered charging Richardson with perjury and aiding and abetting her husband’s alleged embezzlement.
L.A. County prosecutors tried to force City Councilman Curren Price’s wife to testify before a grand jury and served subpoenas on several members of his City Hall staff earlier this year, three sources told The Times.
The grand jury was convened in March, according to three sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because grand jury proceedings are secret under California la