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Steve Soboroff Agrees to Work for Free, After $500,000 Salary Exposed
Breitbart ^ | 02/09/2025 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 02/09/2025 6:19:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Los Angeles “Chief Recovery Officer” Steve Soboroff said Saturday night that he would work for free, after coming under fire for earning $500,000 for three months of work, even though his salary was to have been paid privately.

Earlier in the day, as Breitbart News reported, Ambassador Ric Grenell, who is representing President Donald Trump in overseeing the recovery effort from last month’s devastating fires, criticized Soboroff harshly for his salary.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: california; communists; exposed; free; grenell; ricgrenell; salary; soboroff; work
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Go away POS
1 posted on 02/09/2025 6:19:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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2 posted on 02/09/2025 6:21:21 AM PST by skimbell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It will be relabeled.


3 posted on 02/09/2025 6:23:58 AM PST by Raycpa
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free, but he will somehow be gifted a large value item.


4 posted on 02/09/2025 6:29:12 AM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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That was mighty white of him.

5 posted on 02/09/2025 6:30:37 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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I guess he will give back the $500,000? Sure he will../s


6 posted on 02/09/2025 6:30:51 AM PST by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The money will instead be distributed to various consultancies with which he has a relationship.


7 posted on 02/09/2025 6:31:26 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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They didnt tell him USAID was shut down


8 posted on 02/09/2025 6:32:00 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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Communists gonna communist.


9 posted on 02/09/2025 6:33:26 AM PST by OKSooner ("I'd be safe and warm, if I was in LA... " Mama Cass Elliott, 1966)
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his salary was to have been paid privately"

I don't understand how this works at all. Who paid this guy, I thought he worked for the city, a city employee? Why would someone pay this salary privately? What's the point in that?

asking for my cat. L)
10 posted on 02/09/2025 6:47:38 AM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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🤣 🤣 🤣


11 posted on 02/09/2025 6:52:19 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Bass appoints Soboroff $500,000 "recovery officer."

12 posted on 02/09/2025 6:55:58 AM PST by Liz
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Problems in a bureaucracy are always addressed with more bureaucracy. They’ll decide that the solution is more inspections and more permitting. In China, the burgeoning bureaucracy inspired Mao to initiate the Cultural Revolution in the sixties, which resulted in 10 million deaths. That’s how socialists problem solve.


13 posted on 02/09/2025 7:02:37 AM PST by Spok (What would Rush say?)
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With all the backlash Soboroff said he will work for nothing.

Translation: Contractor kickbacks set?.

Same deal new route?.

Bass winks


14 posted on 02/09/2025 7:05:39 AM PST by Vaduz
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And contracts to buddies who will do him favors.


15 posted on 02/09/2025 7:22:13 AM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When it comes to government actions, there is no private paying of a salary to a person. All that is rewarding somebody, buying a favor for the future, putting money in the bank for the government leaders. I mean, there’s a reason for that one and has to be suspected because it’s coming from private funds.. can you say washing machine? sure you can boys and girls


16 posted on 02/09/2025 7:27:58 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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My thoughts exactly. If someone else was paying his salary, he should not be considered a city employee.


17 posted on 02/09/2025 8:00:34 AM PST by sphinx
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I’m pretty sure that CA has its own version of USAID. I doubt he’s worried.


18 posted on 02/09/2025 8:06:12 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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Exactly who was paying him needs to become public information. Was it some rich “do gooder”, or someone interested in turning the reconstruction to their own advantage? What was their angle?


19 posted on 02/09/2025 8:18:28 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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Is he returning the 500,000 already paid to him ?


20 posted on 02/09/2025 9:16:28 AM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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