Posted on 07/05/2010 7:27:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Six employees of Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon have been ordered to appear before a grand jury this week, six months after prosecutors obtained search warrants to determine whether the councilman has been living at his legal residence.
Alarcon said Monday that his chief of staff, Saeed Ali, and five other workers in his office have received subpoenas instructing them to testify on Wednesday.
Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley's office received permission in January to search two homes owned by Alarcon's wife, Flora Montes de Oca -- one on Nordhoff Street in Panorama City, the other on Sheldon Street in Sun Valley. Alarcon contends that he resides at the house on Nordhoff Street and that he moved his family to another address, one in the district represented by Councilman Paul Krekorian, after a transient broke into his home and changed the locks on the doors.
"I don't think anybody wants their staff people to be called before a grand jury, but we believe we have a very solid position and when all the information comes out, we'll be fine," Alarcon said.
David Demerjian, head deputy for Cooley's Public Integrity Division, had no comment. He previously has said that a politician who registers to vote at a place that is not his residence can be charged with a felony.
One neighbor who lives across from Alarcon's 1950 Panorama City tract house told The Times earlier this year that the councilman had not lived there for three years. Two other neighbors made similar remarks.
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What would be hilarious is, if he had a public storage unit he was operating out of, just to meet the residency or domicile requirements.
So typical of the outside agitators to just come in and loot the city.
The streets he lives on are really crappy neighborhoods. I do not see him living in those neighborhoods.
They all do that crap here in So. California
What’s really amazing is the voters that elect them in the first place.
another la raza member
Huh? Transient breaks into occupied house and changes locks. He must have had great excuses for not turning in his homework.
Saeed Ali?
Gezzzz...
What’s the big deal? We have a President that wasn’t born in America.
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