[2] Inzunza served as chief of staff to his predecessor as city councilman, Juan Vargas.
One of Inzunza's first actions as a city councilman was to challenge the way Mayor Dick Murphy was making appointments to an Ethics Committee.
Murphy later named him Deputy Mayor and appointed him to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.
[3] Inzunza and two other city councilmen, Charles L. Lewis and Michael Zucchet, were indicted on August 23, 2003, on federal charges of extortion, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for taking campaign contributions from a strip club owner and his associates, allegedly in exchange for trying to repeal the city's "no touch" laws at strip clubs.
[7] Inzunza served time in a federal penitentiary in Atwater, California and was released in April 2013.