Harris

MEMORANDUM *

Paula Cameo Harris, Paul H. Richards, II, and Bevan Atlee Thomas (“the defendants”) appeal from their judgments of conviction and sentences for involvement in a public corruption scheme. We affirm.

The defendants first challenge the district court’s denial of their request for *971 an evidentiary hearing on an allegedly improper relationship between Assistant United States Attorney Daniel Shallman and a complaining witness, Mark Kudler. There was no evidence that Shallman’s wife represented Kudler at the time of the prosecution, and Shallman’s declaration rebutted the defendants’ allegations that Shallman had any improper relationship with Kudler. Nor was there any appearance of impropriety. The district court did not, therefore, abuse its discretion by rejecting the request for an evidentiary hearing. See 28 U.S.C. § 528 ; 28 C.F.R. § 45.2 (a)(2); see also United States v. Frega, 179 F.3d 793, 799-800 (9th Cir.1999).

The defendants next assert that the district court denied their constitutional rights by excluding evidence of the Lyn-wood City Council’s motivation for rescinding the public contracts and evidence of wrongdoing by a government witness, Julio Naulls.…