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  • Robert Citron, treasurer at center of O.C. bankruptcy, dies

    01/18/2013 11:56:43 AM PST · by EveningStar · 5 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | January 16, 2013 | Scott Reckard and Shelby Grad
    Robert L. Citron, the soft-spoken Orange County treasurer whose bad bets on exotic Wall Street investments resulted in what in 1994 was the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, died Wednesday ... A grand jury investigation would later find that Citron, who over the years won so many awards for his investment skills, relied upon a mail-order astrologer and a psychic for interest rate predictions as the county's treasury began to falter ...