LOS ANGELES - Former Lynwood Mayor Paul Richards, who is scheduled to go on trial next week on federal corruption charges, was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute. Richards, 49, was taken into custody Wednesday by police vice officers shortly before noon and booked on a misdemeanor prostitution charge. He was being held on $2,000 bond. Richards had been free on $100,000 bond in the federal case. One condition is that he not violate any federal, state or local criminal law. Any decision to revoke his bond would rest with U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner, who will preside over the corruption trial. Richards served on the Lynwood City Council for 17 years until he was ousted in a recall election in 2003. He was indicted by a federal grand jury last year on charges of steering a series of lucrative city contracts to a company he secretly owned.

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