Alvin Paura says there were a bunch of red flags, but the light bulbs stood out.

About 5,000 CFC light bulbs, those little circular ones, energy efficiency light bulbs.

It's 2006.

We said has been an office for less than a year, and the LA Department of Water and Power

gave We Sad's office a bunch of energy-efficient light bulbs to distribute to his constituents.

The city had been having these brownouts, which is when power companies restrict power access to prevent total blackouts.

The light bulbs were supposed to basically decrease the demand on the power grid.

And we got pallets of them, so we decided to make it an event, like since we were fresh off the campaign,

call the volunteers back in, we'll precinct walking, hand out light bulbs to residents.

So basically, Alvin is working for Jose, we said.

He's pretty high up in a city council administration.

Alvin is in charge of his offices all over the district.

And we've had a big event, we've got about like 10 media stations there, we've got like 300 volunteers.

We're going to be at the Alzheimer's Senior Center, it was a great event.

And then, the night before the event, We Sad comes by.

And he's looking at the light bulbs, and these are individually packaged light bulbs with their own boxes.

And it says L-A-D-W-P, energy efficiency light bulb, that was it.

He says, where's my name and picture on these bulbs?

Alvin says, we Sad wanted his name and his picture, his picture on all the light bulbs, all of them.

Mind you, this is like late afternoon, early evening, before the event the following day.

I got a phone call from one of the staff members and said, the council member wants his name on each box.

And someone says, we're going to make label.

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