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LA Mayor Karen Bass’ office hit with scandals over hush money, bribes and accusations of ‘legalized corruption’
NY Post ^

Posted on 01/17/2025 3:25:19 PM PST by TigerClaws

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass got into office promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and promising to tackle homelessness and pollution — but she never promised to drain the swamp.

Now she stands accused of adding to it, through “legalized corruption” and a number of eye opening scandals which have come to light after renewed scrutiny in the last two weeks following the revelation Bass and her cronies defunded the Los Angeles Fire Department by $17 million, contributing to them being underprepared to tackle the wildfires currently destroying the city.

These include:

The deputy mayor raided by the FBI over an alleged bomb threat against City Hall. Endorsing a former councilor investigated over hush money payments for congress. Awarding fat cat salaries of $750k to a pal, double the predecessor’s salary. Council members accused of embezzlement, perjury, racketeering, tax evasion and bribes.

Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles.

“Corruption is ingrained in Los Angeles,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit public interest group.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; corruption; criminalnegligence; derelictionofduty; disaster; extortion; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; fire; fraud; grift; karenbass; losangeles; mayor; misappropriation; misconduct; negligence; scandal
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1 posted on 01/17/2025 3:25:19 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

WUT in the wide wide world of sports!?


2 posted on 01/17/2025 3:27:19 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: TigerClaws
LA also hired this guy...

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3 posted on 01/17/2025 3:28:30 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: TigerClaws

In Los Angeles, politicians can request “behested payments” or donations from individuals and companies who have business before the city. “This would be called ‘extortion’ elsewhere,” said Shelley, adding the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles has received some $1.8 million in behested payments from companies such as AT&T and Coca Cola, among others.


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4 posted on 01/17/2025 3:37:16 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: TigerClaws

Trump’s EPA should be preparing Yuge fines for all of the CO2 that Bass and You-Scum released into da Erf’s atmosphere.


5 posted on 01/17/2025 3:42:34 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TigerClaws

6 posted on 01/17/2025 3:43:08 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: TigerClaws

Gee. I liked Bass better when she was praising Fidel Castro and associating with home grown terrorists who bombed the US Capitol in 1983.

/s


7 posted on 01/17/2025 3:44:25 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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To: Paladin2

True.

Bass-hole and Newscum polluted Los Angeles in 2 days more than all the cars can do in a year.


8 posted on 01/17/2025 3:54:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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To: TigerClaws

Geez. With all the people who live in LA, Bass was the best the voters could do?


9 posted on 01/17/2025 3:55:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Joe Pedophile's deal with the devil is finally coming to an end. Thank you Lord. Amen.)
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To: TigerClaws

https://laist.com/news/politics/2022-election-california-general-live-results-los-angeles-city-mayor-bass-caruso

“...The contest was a virtual dead heat on Election Night. Caruso pulled slightly ahead last Thursday, but since then Bass gained a steady lead...”

Sound familiar...?

Secure your elections, CA.


10 posted on 01/17/2025 3:56:42 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: TigerClaws

Guess what? The mob won’t be running fedgov any longer in a few days and corrupt mayors and prosecutors who sold the their loyalty to the Democrats at the price of ignoring their graft are in for some problems.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 4:00:58 PM PST by The Free Engineer
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Fortunately, I live behind the Orange Curtain, but when I was in LA, I overheard two Libtard women “debating” who to vote for. They both agreed Caruso would do a better job running things, particularly the homeless problem, public safety, and municipal operations. You know, things that mayors are supposed to oversee. They finished up by agreeing, though, that he was not sufficiently pro choice, and that issue was of paramount importance, so, Bass !


12 posted on 01/17/2025 4:08:47 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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Secure elections.

Jail the criminals.

Rinse and repeat state by state.

Likely 4-5 Congressional seats for CA will flip to “R” once the elections are secure.


13 posted on 01/17/2025 4:22:44 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Who wants to bet that today’s news that multiple former fire chiefs and captains say the current fire chief should be terminated for failure to pre-planning failures were organized by Bass and her people?


14 posted on 01/17/2025 4:35:34 PM PST by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: TigerClaws

Wanna bet these accusations can be traced back to Newsom’s office? Mayor meet bus.


15 posted on 01/17/2025 4:47:05 PM PST by katana
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Truly despicable.

Bass and Newson treating the devastation as if they had nothing to do with it.

Its just an ordinary “problem” they will use their political “skills” to solve.

Figuring its their ticket to reelection.

Outrageous.


16 posted on 01/17/2025 5:08:00 PM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: TigerClaws

There’s and old saying that I first heard in the 70’s. Attack the right, cover for the left. Nothing has changed. The media in California has been purposefully silent on decades of Democrat corruption in California, except when a Republican screws up, or something is so blatant that they can’t ignore it.


17 posted on 01/17/2025 6:11:28 PM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: TigerClaws

If Gavin Newsom wasn’t such a MethHead he could have jumped all over this on day one and skate through this as a champion.


18 posted on 01/17/2025 6:12:18 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"With all the people who live in LA, Bass was the best the voters could do?"

Maybe the Trump DOJ can get a consent decree to monitor elections in California to take the fraud out of it I has hopefully?

19 posted on 01/17/2025 6:13:35 PM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Enterprise

ask hopefully?


20 posted on 01/17/2025 6:15:24 PM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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