showed that Kimbrew subsequently met with the dispensary's owners inside Compton City Hall. Falsely claiming to be working with the FBI, Kimbrew said he could "make things happen" by ensuring the illegal pot store had the appropriate permits in exchange for $5,000.

Jurors watched a video recording of Kimbrew meeting with an undercover FBI agent and discussing the $5,000 bribe, which the agent had hidden in a restaurant menu and passed to the defendant during a second meeting.

Kimbrew was working as an aide to then-Rep. Janice Hahn out of Compton City Hall when he first approached the owners of Green Legends, a now- defunct pot dispensary on Long Beach Boulevard. The defendant did not take the stand in his defense.

Kimbrew "left a pretty damning trail ... he attempted toa few weeks apart, Kimbrew indicated he was looking for some kind of "arrangement" with the owners or "he was going to have the business shut down" by the end of the week.

Kimbrew actually had no authority over marijuana stores, which were illegal in the city at the time, prosecutors said.

The defense unsuccessfully argued that Kimbrew only took the cash when the undercover agent insisted the money was in exchange for introductions to other dispensary owners and to ensure a "good relationship" -- which was unethical but not illegal, Savo maintained.

"Mr. Kimbrew was acting shady," Savo said in her summation. "But that's not a federal crime."

The illegal dispensary was shut down by the city several months after the events described during the trial.

A spokeswoman for Hahn, who is