and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 09/21/2010 9:50:01 AM PDT by dragnet2
At least eight city of Bell officials were arrested this morning as L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley prepared to announce criminal charges in the municipal salary scandal.
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Battering ram for non-violent offenses = cops on steroids or testosterone runneth over.
And California nabs how many billion$ to save 55 jobs? ;’)
Get ready for the other shoe to drop in Bell — just a hunch.
Uhmm, so exactly WHO is running the City of Bell these days..anyone know?
CA: Supervisors want Bell to go into receivership ( That would be the City of Bell in LA County )
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California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown should quickly ask a judge to remove authority from the scandal-plagued Bell City Council and hand over management of day-to-day affairs to a court-appointed independent official, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors said Tuesday.
Such an action against an elected city council may be unprecedented and would move the state into uncharted legal territory.
The motion was approved 4-0, wth Supervisor Michael Antonovich absent.
It was written before Tuesday morning's arrest of eight current and former Bell city officials, which raised serious questions of how to effectively run the tiny, working-class city of 40,000 people in southeast Los Angeles.
Specifically, the motion calls on Brown to use any legal measure at his disposal, including temporary restraining orders and asking a judge to swiftly remove authority from the Bell City Council. In her motion, Supervisor Gloria Molina said the city's leaders have proven themselves "unable to govern ethically, fairly or competently."
"We're very concerned. We're trying to sort out and figure out how to bring order to this city. It seems to be in crisis," Molina, the motion's author, whose district includes the city of Bell, said at Tuesday's meeting.
Molina's motion endorses the court appointment of an "independent receiver" to take over the day-to-day management of the city. It is one of the solutions Brown suggested last week.
I always like it when the bull wins!
It's not Rizzo.
The big question is, what city is next?
“It’s not Rizzo.
The big question is, what city is next?”
Rizzo and his cronies were fairly open and brazen, almost challenging folks to catch them.
There are many accounting controls which private industry (and non-profits) use regularly.
Governments should and probably also use such tools, but anthing can be skirted, with enough inside cooperation.
I was VP Finance of a 100 employee Engineering firm, and we had a bookkeeping clerk who embezzled over $500,000 in less than two years, through two CFO terms.
Caught him on my watch (not me). He liked drugs, and started small, got away with it, moved up to buying a Corvette, under the cover story his family was rich, etc.
But his system wasn’t perfect. He did prison time, got out, went back for possession/dealing drugs.
I had jogged with him at lunch, and I was concerned they might think I was in on it. But I was not, and I testified in open court against him.
Pissed me off big time that he forged my signature.
me tooo...
The pig should be required to spend a long sentence in jail.
“From the picture above, they’ll need sturdy post for Rizzo.”
That’s what freeway overpasses are for.
On top of that all seniors could have free prescriptions. It is estimated there is $60 Billion dollars wasted each year due to Medicare fraud. There is more than enough money to fund programs. It's all the leeches milking the system and us!
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