LOS ANGELES — City Councilman Curren Price pleaded not guilty Aug. 14 to a pair of newly filed public corruption charges, which were added to the 10 felony counts of grand theft, perjury and conflict of interest he was already facing for allegedly voting in favor of projects in which his wife had a financial interest.

The 74-year-old councilman from the Ninth District appeared in a downtown courtroom to answer to the new charges. He was scheduled to return to court Sept. 16, when a date will be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for his case to go to trial.

Price’s attorney, Michael Schafler, issued a statement calling the addition of new charges “nothing more than an attempt to pile on to a weak case.”

“They have gone back as far as six years, combing through th

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