By FRED SHUSTER Suspended Los Angeles City Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas steered county contracts to USC’s social work school while he was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in exchange for benefits for his son, including a professorship at USC, a federal prosecutor told a Los Angeles jury today. But the defense

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