Original sentence: Her father was a successful CPA.She will have an influential role in guiding the department past the end of the post-Rampart scandal consent decree and of selecting a new police chief to replace outgoing Chief William Bratton.Villaraigosa cited her "extensive law enforcement credentials" in making the selection
Edited sentence: After law school, Yang clerked for U.District Judge Ronald S.Her father was an accountant.Lew, in Los Angeles, and thereafter Lew became her political patron, assisting her with state and federal Republican administrations to obtain first a state Superior Court judgeship and then to become the United States Attorney for the Central District of Califoronia in  Los Angeles.Once on the Commission, Yang became embroiled in a controversy in which it was alleged she had a conflict of interests because she had used her position as commissoner to attempt improperly to influence the LAPD on behalf of her client, ESPN sports columnist Jay Mariotti, who was arrested in September 2010 on suspicion of domestic abuse.Once on the Police Commission, Yang became embroiled in a controversy in which it was alleged she had a conflict of interests because she had used her position as a commissioner to attempt improperly to influence the LAPD on behalf of her client, ESPN sports columnist  Jay Mariotti, who had been arrested in September 2010 on suspicion of domestic violence