Roy Donley
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Roy L. Donley was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from the Fifth District in 1931 and 1932. He was also deputy United States Internal Revenue
collector.
In 1934 he and former City Council Member James Stuart McKnight were tried on charges of agreeing to accept a $10,000 bribe to influence their votes on a city garbage contract while they were on the council. Both were acquitted.
Donley died in Los Angeles on September 25, 1939, at the age of fifty-two. He had lived in that city for thirty years. Donley was survived by his widow and two children, John Robert and Evelyn Elizabeth.
Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
collector.
In 1934 he and former City Council Member James Stuart McKnight were tried on charges of agreeing to accept a $10,000 bribe to influence their votes on a city garbage contract while they were on the council. Both were acquitted.
Donley died in Los Angeles on September 25, 1939, at the age of fifty-two. He had lived in that city for thirty years. Donley was survived by his widow and two children, John Robert and Evelyn Elizabeth.
See also
- List of California public officials charged with crimes, Los Angeles