Curren Price Jr., a Los Angeles City council member, attends a court hearing in the case People vs. Curren Price at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 16, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Price’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Prosecutors allege the councilman improperly voted on city projects that financially benefited his wife and failed to disclose those conflicts on required state forms.
They also say he embezzled approximately $33,800 in city funds from 2013 to 2017 and used his position in city government to award city lease agreements and more than $2 million in federal COVID-19 grants to the nonprofit Home at Last, a paying tenant of Urban Healthcare Project, where Price served as CEO at the time of the votes.
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Curren Price Jr. speaks during a Los Angeles City Council meeting at City Hall on June 13, 2023. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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An amended complaint filed in August 2025 added two more felony conflict of interest counts, alleging that the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and LA Metro paid Price’s wife more than $800,000 while he voted to award the agencies multimillion-dollar contracts.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said if convicted, Price faces a maximum sentence of 11 years and four month, including up to nine years and four months in state prison and up to two years in county jail.
Ashley Carnahan is a writer at Fox News Digital.
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