A man the City of Los Angeles gave $1.5 million to help lead Latino kids away from gangs has been convicted of selling assault weapons to undercover cops. His name? Hector “Big Weasel” Marroquin.

I’d love to have been in that city meeting when some do-gooder social worker proposed giving $1.5 mil to someone named “Big Weasel.” As Steve McQueen said in “The Magnificent Seven”: “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”