Mark Ridley thomas and ex USC Dean Marilyn Flynn, indicted for bribery, conspiring to steer taxpayer funds to USC in exchange for free tuition for Ridley thomas's son in Congress. Karen Bass took $95,000 in free tuition from the same, indicted US C. D. Then repeatedly voted to give USC millions in taxpayer funds, Ridley thomas and Flynn faced decades in jail. But Karen Bass wants to be Ella's next mayor. That doesn't seem right.