As AT reported yesterday, University of California, Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi was suspended over serious questions about her dubious contracts to scrub negative information about her on the internet and possible nepotism involving her immediate family members. However, Katehi came from the University of Illinois where she was on the periphery of a scandal where the politically connected  helped friends and family gain admission despite not being qualified. As the Chicago Tribune reported in 2009 on the eve of her appointment as Chancellor.

The University of Illinois admissions scandal has rippled to the West Coast, where U. of I. Provost Linda Katehi is to become chancellor at the University of California-Davis in August. But questions about Katehi's involvement in, or knowledge about, the so-called Category I clout list has prompted calls there for an investigation.

In an e-mail to UC-Davis officials last week, Katehi denied any involvement in Category I, though she has overseen the admissions department since 2006.

"I want to be clear to you and others at UC-Davis that I was not involved in the admissions decisions that were the subject of the Tribune's 'Clout Goes to College' investigation," she wrote in an e-mail. "The so-called 'Category I' admissions process was not part of the regular admissions system and was handled at a higher level in the institution."

A California State Senator (who is no stranger to corruption himself), Leland Yee, raised questions about Katehi’s involvement.

California state Sen. Leland Yee (D- San Francisco) said he finds it implausible that Katehi would not know about the clout list.

Yee himself (a gun control advocate) was recently convicted of accepting cash from an undercover agent in return for helping to import illegal firearms from the Philippines, including automatic weapons.

One of Yee’s causes as a legislator was gun control. But in his guilty plea, Yee admitted agreeing in a March 2014 meeting with Jackson, an undercover agent and the now-deceased Wilson Lim, a Daly City dentist and Yee supporter, to illegally import weapons, including automatic firearms, from the Philippines. Yee said the agent paid him $6,800 in cash.

Yee was sentenced to five years in federal prison. It is not clear if Katehi’s apparent flouting of California laws will result in any criminal prosecution, but it is amazing that someone so close to corruption in Illinois and whose conduct was questioned in that scandal, would later get embroiled in her own corruption controversy. Perhaps Linda Katehi should apologize to Leland Yee.