Adam Elmahrek

Adam Elmahrek is an award-winning investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times who specializes in corruption. He started his journalism career in 2010 at the nonprofit news website Voice of OC, where he broke stories exposing misconduct in local government.

An audit approved Wednesday by California lawmakers seeks to root out bribery, conflicts of interest and other corruption in cannabis licensing.

California launches probe of cannabis licensing to ‘clean house’ of corruption

March 24, 2023 at 1:35 p.m.

State officials are launching an audit aimed at curtailing bribery, conflicts of interest and other misdeeds in California's cannabis industry.

Trying to cool off during a heat wave, Sabrina sits outside her trailer beside a Mendocino County cannabis field.

State lawmakers want investigation, hearings into ‘Wild West’ of California cannabis and farm work

January 30, 2023 at 12:15 p.m.

California lawmakers are calling for a sweeping investigation into corruption in the state's cannabis industry, legislative hearings on the exploitation of farmworkers and new laws to thwart labor trafficking in...

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