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What won what wherePatrick Lynch, the former general manager of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, agreed today to plead to one count of criminal conflict of interest. Multiple other charges will be dropped, Lynch will be required to repay $385,000 in kickbacks, and he will testify against the others arrested in an investigation into questionable exchanges of funds at the publicly owned Coliseum. Lynch will escape prison, but must serve 1,500 hours of community service and be on probation.
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