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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Lives over in Huntington Beach.
I will tune in today, I usually listen the next day. Jerry is not ever showing up on their show, he is to much of a coward!
These people need to rot in prison...General population for them....I hope they get beat daily while in the joint and are taken out in a box.
Well, if there are other cities out there that are out of Control to this degree, I hope they are outed. I hope cities that are even less out of control are outed.
Isn’t it shocking that in this day and age city leader’s salaries are not public record. This is something that hadn’t crossed my radar before. I hear there’s a movement in California to require all cities to publish their leader’s salaries.
Can’t believe this wasn’t the case before.
That should wake a lot of people up. It should prevent this from happening again. Let’s hope.
City of Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo Steals a Shocking $800,000 a Year
Now THAT’s a face you can trust!
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Yeah, we've seen it..Many are are hard working Hispanics that had no idea they were being gang raped by these government crooks.
See #45.
News conference now.
http://www.kfiam640.com/mediaplayer/?station=KFI-AM&action=listenlive&channel_title=
Press conference going on right now!
Calculated government greed and theft, enriching themselves....These people were showering themselves with hundreds of thousands of tax paid dollars....Boats, horse ranches, gold plated retirement pensions, flashy cars...
This is the tip of the iceberg.
Government out of control!
Good, I hope this guys loses everything he has and does some real hard time.
All of these people are innocent!
This is a malicious prosecution of Italian and Latino’s by Tea Party activists!!!
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Although I don’t approve of the salaries, I am confused about the arrests.
Your police chief was offered a $450,000 position, and he took it (I’d probably do the same thing!).
While the amount is ridiculous, is it illegal in some way?
And they'd also be the kind of "Republicans" we have in Chester PA: A second party of democrats at war with the first party of democrats.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/22/local/la-me-rizzo-20100822
The lifestyle that Robert Rizzo enjoyed during his run as Bell city manager included a stable full of thoroughbreds, among them a gelding named Depenserdel’argent — French for “spend money.”
And Rizzo had plenty to spend, with an annual compensation package that swelled to $1.5 million in one of Los Angeles County’s poorest cities.
Rizzo, who resigned last month after The Times disclosed his base salary of nearly $800,000, has held title to about three dozen horses since his pay began soaring, according to thoroughbred industry databases.
He conducted his racing business through at least three firms he launched and bought a $930,000 ranch in 2004 in Auburn, Wash., southeast of Seattle, a getaway from his similarly valued home in Huntington Beach, state and county records show.
I’ve been following this quite closely, since I lived in that part of LA County for over a year.
My question is this: If these people are indicted and convicted, what happens to their pensions and properties?
Rush is raging about Cuomo in New York State elections....
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