Lazy writing. They left out that he suggested he could steer contracts to do developement work on California's electronic voting machines to his (undercover) interlocutor's software consultancy firm if Yee became secretary of state. Also, Yee's facing up to 125 years in prison, since there's no gurantee of sentences running concurrently and he's charged with 6 offences each of which carry a 20 year sentence (though realistically, he'll probably do much less).