A well known Democratic figure in Sacramento, Alexis Podesta, reportedly wore a wire as part of her cooperation with federal investigators as they homed in on former Newsom chief of staff Dana Williamson.
The California Post reported Thursday that they confirmed that lobbyist Alexis Podesta had worn a wire and recorded conversations with a range of people in Sacramento, filling in a missing puzzle piece for those who have been informed by the feds that phone conversations of theirs had been recorded.
Podesta, who served as secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency under former Governor Jerry Brown and was subsequently appointed to the board of the State Compensation Insurance Fund by Governor Gavin Newsom, was previously identified as a co-conspirator in the campaign-fund embezzlement case against Williamson and former Deputy State Attorney General Sean McCluskie. The Sacramento Bee reported in December that Podesta was an unindicted co-conspirator in the case and was cooperating with the FBI…