Alarcon, wife indicted

Facing charges that could cost him his office and land him in jail, Councilman Richard Alarcón and his wife were indicted Wednesday on 24 felony counts of perjury, voter fraud and other crimes for allegedly living in a house outside his district.Daily News,

The grand jury indictment against the San Fernando Valley councilman and his wife, Flora Montes De Oca Alarcón, follows a 15-month investigation by the Public Integrity Division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Prosecutors allege Alarcón, 56, was living in his wife's Sun Valley house, just blocks from her Panorama City house in Alarcón's Council District 7, where they both claim residency.