in addition to sitting on the Appropriations and Energy, Utilities and Communications committees. Calderon also sat on the California Film Commission, which is tasked with promoting and subsidizing the California film industry. 2012 congressional election In August 2011, Calderon announced he would be running for the United States Congress in the newly redrawn California's 38th congressional district against incumbent U.S. Congresswoman Linda Sánchez in the Democratic primary. Calderon's State Senate district represented around 70% of the redrawn thirty-eighth. Calderon withdrew from the race in January 2012. Corruption case On June 4, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided Calderon's offices in the California State Capitol in an attempt to find evidence regarding accusations of criminal activity. On the same day, the FBI also raided the office of California's Latino Legislative Caucus of which Calderon served as vice-chair. An FBI affidavit was published online on October 30, 2013 by cable network Al Jazeera America with a claim that State Sen. Ron Calderon accepted about $88,000 in bribes from a Southern California hospital executive, Michael Drobot, for legislation regarding workers' compensation for an expensive surgical procedure, and an undercover FBI agent posing as a film studio owner during a wide-ranging probe into his conduct as a legislator. On November 12, 2013, Calderon was suspended from his committee assignments, citing the ongoing inquiry into the alleged bribe. On February 21, 2014 Calderon agreed to surrender to federal authorities after being named in a federal grand jury indictment. After surrendering to authorities on February 24, 2014 Calderon appeared in Court and pleaded not guilty to 24 charges relating to wire fraud, bribery, money laundering and falsification of tax returns. His trial was scheduled to commence on April 22, 2014. Calderon was released on a $50,000 surety bond. He could have faced a prison term of up to a maximum 396 years if convicted on all charges. The California Senate gave the senator until March 3, 2014 to either resign or take a leave of absence, failing which a vote would be taken to suspend him from office. On March 2, Calderon announced that he would take a leave of absence. He was absent until the end of the 2014 session, at which point he was term-limited out of office. On June 13, 2016, federal prosecutors announced that Calderon agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud. A week earlier his brother Tom pleaded guilty