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Criminal probe begun of L.A. city attorney (D)elgadillo
SF GATE ^ | 8/19/08 | Lance Williams,Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writers

Posted on 08/19/2008 10:12:11 AM PDT by BurbankKarl

San Francisco FBI agents have begun a criminal investigation of Los Angeles City Attorney Rockard "Rocky" Delgadillo, a one-time rising star of California politics whose career stalled after a series of admitted ethical lapses.

Sources familiar with the FBI investigation said agents recently went to Los Angeles to conduct interviews in what appears to be a wide-ranging probe of Delgadillo, 48, a moderate Democrat now in his second four-year term.

The probe began after Delgadillo was criticized for allegedly using city resources for personal benefit.

Delgadillo admitted last year that he had his city-owned SUV repaired at taxpayers' expense after his wife hit a pole in a parking lot. He has also acknowledged that he used city employees to run personal errands for him and to babysit his children, but he denied misusing taxpayers' funds.

Delgadillo, who is the city's chief legal adviser and who has jurisdiction over the prosecution of all criminal misdemeanors in the city, has resisted allowing the city controller to audit $128 million in payouts from a workers' compensation program supervised by his office, according to news reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; corruptdems; corruption; cultureofcorruption; delgadillo; democratscandals; fbi; govwatch; losangeles; thugwithanoffice

1 posted on 08/19/2008 10:12:11 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
a moderate Democrat

WTF! Are they trying to make him seem more like a "Republican', and thats why he's corrupt? What is a moderate Democrat anyway? Just a pinko, and not a full blown red commie?

2 posted on 08/19/2008 10:15:23 AM PDT by chaos_5
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To: BurbankKarl

He is truly a ‘moderate Democrat.’

All these ethical picadillos seem so...well...so moderate.


3 posted on 08/19/2008 10:17:33 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Yea,Yea, that’s the ticket.I tell my wife that I had a
few ethical lapses.


4 posted on 08/19/2008 10:22:13 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: BurbankKarl

“after a series of admitted ethical lapses”

If he was a Republican, it would be ‘pervasive corruption’.


5 posted on 08/19/2008 10:23:12 AM PDT by Spok (Whatever you say about McCain, it must be admitted that he's no B. Hussein Obama.)
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To: chaos_5

Often a “moderate Democrat” is really a RINO. Since this man is not a member of the Republican party, I assume that he is to the Left of “moderate”.


6 posted on 08/19/2008 10:44:42 AM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: BurbankKarl
Who's got the toast picture?

If we can get Feinstein indicted for sloughing off contracts to her husband, there won't be an elected dem who can run for Gov, except JB.

7 posted on 08/19/2008 10:47:23 AM PDT by purpleraine
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To: chaos_5

Rocky’s misdeeds came to light when shortly after Paris Hilton got shipped off to jail for the second time. Is it possible that Hiltons or the Sheriff have something to do with the current investigation? Advice to all Rocky and Niffong would be’s:”Dont screw around with the rich people. They have contacts and resources you cant even imagine.”


8 posted on 08/19/2008 11:40:52 AM PDT by doomtrooper99
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To: chaos_5

He’s not a moderate. BTW who is going to run against him for Attorney General of the State of California? I wonder if that’s where this really started. The things that supposedly started this: letting his wife use a city car, lying about an accident she had, having city employees babysit his kids, etc. aren’t crimes if done by a Democrat politician.


9 posted on 08/19/2008 1:49:56 PM PDT by airedale ( XZ)
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To: Dr. Ursus

You’ll be OK as long as you assure your wife that they were of moderate length.

Be sure your life insurance premiums are paid up first for the sake of the children.


10 posted on 08/19/2008 3:29:08 PM PDT by wildbill
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