A state official overseeing Koreatown bars was on the take for years, prosecutors say

A California official who enforced the state’s liquor laws in Koreatown schemed with a businessman to shake down karaoke bar owners as part of a brazen ploy that went on for years, federal prosecutors alleged Friday.

Wilbur M. Salao, 46, and Scott Seo, 49, appeared in court earlier this week on…