Tafoya similarly facilitated a bribe to Pacheco to help W&F International Corp. obtain a marijuana business permit, and has separately admitted to evading some $650,000 in federal tax payments.

Former Compton City Councilmember Isaac Galvan and his client Yichang Bai were arrested in September 2023 on a federal grand jury indictment alleging they paid $70,000 in bribes to Pacheco in exchange for his support for W&F International Corp.’s marijuana permits.

"This could have a major impact on one of the biggest industries in the world," said James Tour, Rice's T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor and a professor of chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering.

One year at Harvard, when his signature course, “The Astronomical Perspective,” wasn’t filling up as fast as he would have liked, he hired a plane to fly a banner over the campus that read: “Sci A-17. M, W, F. Try it!”

In 2020, W.W.F.-Australia, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Humane Society International collectively nominated the animal for listing as an endangered species.