Mayor V Divorce Update
Steve Lopez tells the Mayor to shut up. Lopez says that the Mayor can't both ask for privacy about his personal life and keep calling press conferences and giving interviews about his failed marriage.Patt Morrison doesn't care about Antonio's breakup. But while she's at she alludes to an extra-marital affair during the term of former Mayor Tom Bradley.
Change in plans. The Mayor will stay at Getty House while Corina and the kids will move back to CD14.
WitnessLA.com wants to make the Mayor a deal. They'll give him the privacy he wants if he submits to an ankle bracelet or a security camera so we know where he is and what he's doing at all times.
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Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/15/2007 12:26:00 AM
101 Comments:
Mayor Sam you're just jellus you will never be like the mayor
I care more about Rocktard.
Does anyone else think that the City Attorney is making a huge media gaffe?
L.A. city attorney ducks questions on accident
At a news conference touting his work with youths, Delgadillo declines to say who was driving his city-owned SUV when it was damaged in '04.
By Matt Lait
Times Staff Writer
June 15, 2007
Amid a swirl of television cameras and persistent reporters, Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo on Thursday continued to duck questions about who was driving his city-owned vehicle when it was damaged in a 2004 accident and repaired at taxpayer expense.
At a news conference promoting his work with at-risk youths, Delgadillo repeatedly refused to identify who was responsible for the accident or discuss other controversies involving his office.
"I'm here today to talk about these kids," he told reporters.
His silence on matters involving public funds was criticized by public policy and government accountability experts, and was seen by some as an effort to cover up potential misconduct on his part.
Under city rules, the vehicle assigned to Delgadillo cannot be driven by a family member for personal reasons.
Earlier this week, The Times reported that two sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said Delgadillo occasionally has allowed his wife to use the city-owned GMC Yukon.
Another source close to the city attorney told of being informed that the Yukon had been backed into a structure in the parking garage of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center when Delgadillo's wife, Michelle, was there for a medical appointment.
"When it comes to city property, he should be an open book," said Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles.
Kris Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Assn., said he found Delgadillo's refusal to answer questions about the accident an untenable position for an elected official.
"How can you expect a top law enforcement official to compel others to obey the laws or city rules when he is unable to do so himself?" Vosburgh said. "Even if there wasn't a legal obligation, you would think he would feel a moral obligation to come forward with answers.
"I'm surprised he doesn't feel a sense of shame."
Delgadillo's silence comes as he and his office face increased scrutiny. This week, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission approved $11,450 in fines against Delgadillo for 30 counts of violating campaign finance laws.
On Thursday, The Times reported that Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley had complained that suspects who could have been charged with felonies were charged by Delgadillo with misdemeanors.
And attention on Delgadillo's wife followed statements that the city attorney made last week to the judge presiding over the Paris Hilton case. Delgadillo had argued that the hotel heiress should spend more time in jail for driving with a suspended license and violating her probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges. Later that day, Delgadillo acknowledged in response to inquiries from reporters that his wife had been ticketed for failing to obey a right-turn-only sign while driving her personal car with a suspended license in 2005.
Department of Motor Vehicle records show that Michelle Delgadillo's license had been suspended for nearly two years for failure to provide proof of insurance after an accident. Her suspension took effect a week before her husband turned the Yukon in to the city garage Aug. 2, 2004, for $2,120 worth of repairs from a collision.
At his media event at a Culver City park Thursday, Delgadillo arrived early but remained in his car for at least 10 minutes before getting out and walking past reporters. Without stopping, Delgadillo refused to address questions about his wife or the accident involving his city-owned vehicle. He said he would answer questions at "another time," but he declined to specify when. He then referred reporters to his spokesman, but the spokesman said Delgadillo does not intend to answers questions regarding his city vehicle or wife.
Rocky, like Dave Elliott, has become a caricature of himself.
He will never get elected to anything else, now that he has shown how unprofessional he can be in office. He doesn't possess one tenth of the skills possessed by our Mayor (Antonio, not Sam).
But his jealousy of Antonio and his inability to get along with him has proven to be his undoing.
Adios Rocktard; you were just not ready for prime time.
Quit trying to change subjects tony vilar staffers TV IS STILL A scumbag!!!
I think pretty much the majority of Tony's V.'s supporters, and absolutely all of his opponents knew that he was a scummy individual in his personal life.
Those who opposed him couldn't do anything about it, or make it matter in his elections. Those who supported didn't care. They just "liked" him, they REALLY liked him.
Like that line from "Prizzi's Honor"
"Just cause she's a hitter (paid assassin), don't mean she's not good people"
The cult of personality always wins in America's shallow, dull-witted society.
Ask that bleach blonde richbitch in county jail.
Oh please! I am not a Rockard fan but to say that he doesn't have "one-tenth the skills" as AV?
Lets see...
Rocky -
Star athlete and scholar at Franklin
Harvard undergrad
Columbia Law School (passed the bar first try)
Attorney for major law firm
One wife, kids all have the same mother
Antonio -
Kicked out of Catholic school
East LA College/UCLA
"Peoples" College of Law (an unaccredited law school)
Failed bar exam four times
Union hack
Married, divorced twice, kids have different moms
Sorry to be so rude but when you Kool-Aid drinkers go as far as to make a stupid comment like this I have to say something.
Mayor Sam, you're pretty much rude and abusive every day when you chime in.
Why be sorry?
Are you also sorry every other day, and just forgot to mention it?
(When you end your comments with such an insincere sentiment, it's hard to take the rest of what you say seriously).
And with that, I'll go gargle with razor blades in anticipation of you telling me to.
Mayor Sam you're pretty much rude and abusive because like you say you're no longer drink the kool-aid.
Put your comments about Antonio on Bush and you'll be a progressive visonary!
Mayor Sam is not being rude he listed the facts. The comments about Rocky and his wife are rude.
What will be rude is when Rocky's attorneys and Laura Chick's accountants finish their investigation and the Mayor will say "OH SHIT!"
Word circling among those people in the know say that Corina is livid. Antonio tried to play the part of devoted father and tried to ge a PR boost by "moving out" of the Mayor's mansion. Corina would have none of this - how dare the Mayor try to further insult Corina by making her out to be a gold digger - "I'll keep the mansion, you go back to Mt. Washington.":
Typical Antonio bullshit, now it's only magnified ten fold because of his incompetent staff, do you guys also pick up his dry cleaning?
One thing everyone fails to note here - listen up reporters - the house on Mt. Washington does not belong to Antonio - the sole owner is Corina, somebody please do a property search! And that is part of the problem, Antonio was boinking Ms. Homewrecker Reporter in Corina's home. But this is nothing new, right Helen?
LA Times reporters bat for Tony at Delgadillo conference. Whatcha gonna do with LA TIMES Lies!
who is Helen?
Antonio is not "divorced twice." He has two adult daughters, each by a different mother, but did not marry either of these women. And Corina did file for divorce once before, after Antonio's much-publicized affair ("most" publicized, but perhaps not his ONLY affair?), but after an extended separation, they later reconciled.
ok troll.
geeez. get a grip and stop the drip.
What a photo op. Hmmmmmmmm. Is AV's son, you know, hmmmmmm, you know, wheeeeew, ahhhhhhh, gay?
Great column yesterday by Steve Lopez... Unless Duke Helfand, at least Lopez is not intimidated, not starstruck by Hizzoner...
Hillary: Please Dump Antonio!
by Mona Gable
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mona-gable/hillary-please-dump-anto_b_52349.html
We all know Antonio's baggage the local media never reported. What kind of father makes this type of announcement the week before his son graduates? Only Antonio so he can still be the center of attention and the graduation. Sickening!!!! Antonio wants to help Hillary with the Latino vote but guess what? Latina women hate men who cheat and the worst of all are Latino men. So the word is spreading like fire across the nation on blogs, e-mails posting Steve Lopez column and Tony Castro's. Now this divorce will take up more good reading. Wait til Corina's attorney asks for ASSETS!!!! To get to Rocky he has done more then anyone about the gang problem. We know Antonio is trying to get his LA Slimes reporters to go after the messenger because he had the guts to throw miss rich bitch back in jail. Guess what?" We support Rokcy for that.
LA ANTONIA TIMES's "RAPID RESPONCE SPIN TEAM"
Leave it to the "OLD GREY HAG ON SPRING STREET" to "SPIN" the news coverage away from their "PRODICAL MIJO", "HIS POLLONESS". They lached their "SADDLE OF ACCESS" to "VILLAR", and what did they get ?? Upstage by the "WEEKLY OF RECORD" and the "MOLDY GREEN SHEET", who by the way have found their "JOURNALISTIC CAJONES" again with their coverage.
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Except for Steve Lopez, seems like rest of the folks at L.A. Times have a pact to protect Antonio...no matter what. What used to be a fine newspaper is now often little more than a shill for the mayor and his friends.
LA WEEKLY SUPERCEDES LA TIMES IN JOURNALISTIC ORIGINALITY.
Animal Services Gm Ed Boks issued another lame brain press release yesterday. He seems to be in direct competition with Tony Villar about the amount of face time the press will give his eternally stupid ideas. Boks' latest venture into nutty humaneiacism is to limit the hours that LA citizens can relinquish their animals at the city shelters. It's his moronic belief that in order to finally have his shelters achieve his coveted "no-kill" goal, these time restrictions for pet owners forced to give up their cats, dogs or bunnies will look elsewhere for their pet's next home. What an idiot! We foresee a passel of critters being abandoned by their frustrated owners whose working or personal schedules do not conform to Mr. Boks' country club timeline. It must be nice to earn $168,000. just like Boks and spend one's days thinking of the next idiotic idea to thrust on LA citizens and their pets!
to 11:57 a.m., and mayor sam -- you guys are so full of vitriol, you've got miserable lives of your own so who cares what you think. It's easy to sit around like fire ants and try to bring down people who actually do something and have the guts to get out there in the media glare, even if it includes dregs like your ilk.
You like Rocky for taking on big, bad Paris Hilton and Baca, too -- well, he did it to grandstand with a covetous eye on Cooley's job, by proving he could be tough on rich dumb white woman and was also the biggest, baddest sheriff and law enforcement official around. (But was too stupid to remember that his own wife got off scot-free for the same thing -- she had accidents, too.) And he elbowed into the gang issue recently, suddenly realizing it might be a good idea to deport illegal gang members so they don't keep making our streets a sewer -- where was he all this time before?
-- and if you were smart enough to actually read the LAT, you'd know he is downgrading felonies to misdemeanors so his office can take those cases away from the DA. Gee, that makes us all a lot safer.
But to space cadets like you, these gross failures of duty & judgement pale in comparison to nasty gossip about a man who does more in a day than you dorks have in your lives.
If his wife is mad, well, that's too bad, but that's their problem.
Your only valid point is, AV may be judged harshly by latina women, who the lower classes of whom are very moralistic, and their men too macho. but you forget that they're also respectful of authority, and as the first homeboy to become Mayor, they still root for AV.
The Mayor needs to be neutered so he'll stop roaming around and embarrassing the City.
Mayor Sam, you forgot one:
Rocky -
Doing his job
Antonio -
Not doing his job
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So who's going to clean Villar's toilet?
Oh yes, I forgot... the taxpayers money will do it for him!
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Speaking of, has anybody heard from
Flieshman Hillary now that her x-boyfriend Doug is behind bars? She has a new boyfriend with lots of time on his hands. Watch out for the Lost Lomas land grab. Stay tuned as the Orozco sham continues.
to 1:14: did antonio ever do anyth to you personally, to get you so mad? if not, there's something really wrong with you and you need help.
If you can't get this level of bile out of yourself, it will eat you up and it's already giving you tunnel- vision; there's so much of that all over the city w/ our elected officials, is it in the air or water? or all of a sudden, a bunch of sad and insecure people need someone to try to take down to feel better. Neither the mayor nor Baca nor weiss nor even rocky deserve to be "taken down" cuz you don't agree w/ them, tho of the bunch, Rocky is closest to having failed in context of his job, but all of these guys have been out there doing major stuff, putting themselves on the line every day, while you all just gripe and swipe. Pathetic. If you have a constructive criticism, fine but you're too vitriolic to think.
COMMENTS BY SMART VOTERS
--The New Yorker said he has been cheating on her for all his political life!
--He could be part of the Vic Mackey probe on The Shield.
--Cheating husband political lowlife.Course it takes two to tangle and the women knew he was married.Both are home wreckers.
--Anything that might weaken his chances for governor, is fine with me.
--I'll bet he cheated on her. Thats what it sounds like to me. I used to think that it was just something in the Hispanic culture, where the men we almost expected to cheat on their wives, but people tell me its like that everywhere now.
--Has tony threw his hat in the ring for POTUS? This a would help his resume..
--Didn’t he and his wife “combine” names to come up with Villaraigosa? I think he was Tony Villar but thought Antonio Villaraigosa sounded better to Hispanic voters.
--Yes. He is Tony Villar, Aztlan Tony. I wonder how long until he drops the rest of it and stops the charade.
--FAKE MARRIAGE, FAKE NAME, FAKE JOB, FAKE KIDS, FAKE WIVES
Tony Villar will always be a liar..it's in his genes (jeans). He lied abou his grandfather being here 100 years and he lied about his mother...his mother was an ILLEGAL! He tried to hide his two bastard kids until the last election. All of a sudden he is "Father of the Year"! GIVE ME A BREAK! He has NO affection for his two kids...they hate him because of what he did to their mother!!!
Tony Villar is a scumbag and a pig with earrings! He never had a job in his life...except for robbing the taxpayers.
Can hardly wait to get rid of him and his amigo, Nunez!
Parke Skelton has created a Frankenstein monster and we have to suffer because of this sham!
PART II COMMENTS BY SMART VOTERS
--Since the Mayor is so "hot" for illegal immigrants that he castigated Police leaders for confronting the bottle- and rock-throwing crowd at the (illegal) immigration rally, maybe I know what happened to his marriage. Could an illegal immigrant be doing for the Mayor what he wife has refused to do, or stop doing?
Inquiring minds want to know. Well, actually, I don't care. But anything that brings down the Mayor who wants to cede L.A. back to Mexico, is a step in the right direction.Congressman Billybob
--Ah-nold is helping Aztlan Tony become his successor as Governor.
--Maybe she was against immigration amnesty!
--This is reportedly his father, Antonio Villar, on the California Megan's Law database
SOURCE
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848996/posts
Surviving infidelity and coping with the infidelity of a cheating ...
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It appears that of the ones you list Rocky is the one who is failing the least.
Please don't put me in the position of defending Rocktard. But I can't let some villa-ra-koolaid drinker come back and say Baca, Weiss and AV are doing a better job than Rocky. Its just silly.
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA IS SLIMY - CHEATED ON HIS SICK WIFE!!!! HILLARY LIKES CHEATERS
To:
Sen. Hillary Clinton
June 12, 2007
Says a veteran journalist: "I used to say that his former communications chief, Cecile Ablack, was his girlfriend -- she left a tenured job at Yale to move here."
Antonio Villaraigosa had a famous fling in 1994. Here's a factually accurate comment from the mayorsam blog:
The name of the woman is Martha Reyna. Her name is mentioned here only because she was already mentioned in the Ricardo Torres mailers and in the Times. She is Tony's comadre which means Tony is godfather to one of her four children. In 1994, Tony was contemplating running for office. Pat Bond, Gloria Molina's late consultant and herself a cancer survivor, adviced Tony not to run because cancer affects the whole family, not just the patient. She said she wouldn't do the campaign but Tony soon found Parke Skelton ready and willing to do the deed. Tony, thinking of himself as always, went forward with the campaign.
As if the pressures of the campaign weren't enough, Tony soon starts to have an affair with a long time family friend. Parke would send Tony and Martha out canvassing for votes - only thing is, they weren't canvassing. They were going to a motel in Silver Lake and Bill Mabie and Richard Polanco got wind of this. Parke, fearing that they would send pictures of Martha and Tony at this motel to Corina had Tony's home mail forwarded to the campaign office. While Tony and Martha were out doing their thing, Richard, Martha's husband and Tony's compadre and former state bar study partner was in the campaign office making calls to raise money for his good buddy Tony while Tony was out doing his wife.
Corina, Tony's wife, wasn't too involved in that campaign because she was home recovering from cancer surgery and treatment. She noticed no mail was arriving home and Corina is not a stupid woman, despite always going back to Tony after his little adventures. One day she calls Richard, Judge Richard now, and asks if Martha is home. Richard tells her she is in Palm Springs for a labor convention - she used to work for the Painters Union. Low and behold, Tony is also at the same convention.
Corina and Richard put two and two together and Corina confronts Tony. And you know how she got Tony to confess, she questioned his manhood so Tony coughs everything up - can't question his manhood, you know. This was during election day weekend. On election day, Xavier Becerra is up on stage introducing the victorious Tony and going on about what a good family man Tony is. All the campaign workers and virtually everyone else in the audience knows what has been happening and the snickering grows to a crescendo. Xavier would later confront Tony and gets in his face about what a fool he made of him - they will never be good friends again.
Corina doesn't even join Tony up on stage - some family guy. The next day she files for divorce. The case is still open. As for Richard, well Richard's hobby is gun collecting and he starts to hunt for Tony. Tony can't go home anymore and starts to ask his friends to put him up. Most refuse, including Gloria Molina and Ron Martinez. Tony ends up staying at the campaign office before he and Martha hit the road and go up north. This was in June and Tony still has a November general election and a December swearing in.
While on the lamb and hiding from Richard the gun collector, Martha gets word that her 13 year old daughter, Tony's goddaughter, couldn't take the drama anymore and runs away from home. This knocks some sense into Martha and she leaves Tony and returns home. Eventually, Martha and Richard get a divorce anyway.
But, this wasn't some drunken mistake that just happened. According to campaign staffers, Tony had been aggressively pursuing Martha - damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! After all, Tony is God's gift to women and power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Soon Tony is left without a lover, wife or family - even his sisters shun him. There is a fax that starts circulating - started at Gloria Molina's office, Martha Molina - Gloria's aid (no relation) couldn't stand Tony and gets this fax going - this was before e-mails and blogs. The fax is sort of a contest to give Tony a new name. With Corina Raigosa filing for divorce, Tony wouldn't dare use her last name, would he. Soome of the names are Villapendejo, Villapitosuelto, Villaprimadonna, Villahomewrecker, and on and on. I think the list got to over 100 new names for Tony.
Eventually, Tony and Corina get back together. Tony goes around giving his best mea culpa impersonation for all his bogus friends saying that he was such a bonehead. One of the arguments he actually used was that he was "in love" with Martha, as if Tony ever understood the meaning! As for Martha and Richard and Tony's godchildren, they are left by the side of the road like so many of Tony's other encounters. Hey, he got his rocks off right?
From another post to MayorSam blog:
Antonio Villaraigosa, like it or not, is a sleaze & sleaze is going to come out. It would be a perfect world if we didn't have sleazy politicians, but it's not, especially when you're dealing with someone of Tony's character. He lied to the 14th district just like he lied to his buddy Richard just like he lied to his wife - this is sleaze. You may call it broken promises, lack of character or lying but put all
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Mayor Sam
You really think lying about your wife being in a car accident with your city car (while driving on a suspended license!), and having the city taxpayers pay for the repairs is ethical and "doing a good job" as a city attorney? your bias is so evident its not even funny.
There's no doubt that the mayor has made some mistakes, like all people. BUt Rocky is the liar here, lied about his resume (football scholarship to harvard, playing professional football) and he's playing politics with criminal cases, keeping cases away from the DA
You dont have any of the shit up here that the local media has reported on rocktard at all, instead you post shit about the mayor's divorce so people can post shit like he's a rapist and other random bullshit.
yes, I would like to see you defend rocktard
I'm sick of your horse shit. yes, i know, I dont have to read it, but I chose to, and I chose to call you on your shit.
Attention Deficient Villaraigosa's gross impotence as a public "servant" is on display once again this week. The Southwest Museum, the "jewel" of his district and home community for decades and one of its main tourist and cultural attractions is being consumed by the Gene Autry Museum (cowboys beating up the Indians again) and moved against the community's wishes to a new location, while ADV is twiddling his thumbs or sucking them, or something. He's been "supporting" its retention in Mount Washington (lip service) for several years now. They put a Goldline stop there just for the museum (remember... that's the mass transit ADV single-handedly saved?)
Gee, what well-known edifice will he have to stand in front of now for campaign mailer photos -- to prove he knows where CD14 is? He's been using the Southwest's picture for the last 3-4 races. Maybe he can still pose in front of the empty shell of what was L.A.'s first museum, now abandoned, and just tell people it's the new shrine to Antonio VIAGRA-gosa, patron saint of flaccid political support.
Gawd help you if ADV "supports" your cause. You might as well kiss it goodbye the minute he signs on...
HEADLINE: Autry National Center Commissions Overland Partners Architects to Design New Buildings and Galleries at Los Angeles Campus; Design will highlight collection of Southwest Museum of the American Indian and expand Center's Research Institute and Library
LOS ANGELES (March 7, 2005) -- The Autry National Center has selected Overland Partners
Architects, an award-winning firm based in San Antonio, Texas, to develop a master
plan and design new buildings and expanded galleries for the multicultural history
center's campus in Los Angeles's Griffith Park. The project will physically merge
the multiple institutions that have come together in recent years to form the Autry
National Center. A large portion of the Autry's expansion will be dedicated to the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, quintupling the gallery space currently
devoted to its world-class collection.
HEY 2:19
HMMMM. IS YA CITY J.O.B. THREATENED?
AV GOING DOWN WITH SHIP FULL OF PEONS & SHIT.
MAYOR SAM-BACK IN 1/2007 YOU POSTED--
Villaraigosas Headed for Splitsville?
We don't know if its true or not but blogger Luke Ford states that all is not happy in Getty House. In fact Ford claims that the mayor's wife, Connie Villaraigosa no longer lives in the mayor's mansion. Ford alleges the Villaraigosas haven't been seen together in public in nearly 10 months and the Mayor is no longer wearing his wedding ring. In fact, Ford says that an unnamed journalist makes the claim the Mayor is allegedly dating a member of his staff. Inquiring minds want to know.
MAYOR SAM
mayorsam.blogspot.com/2007/01/villaraigosas-headed-for-splitsville.html
hey 2:22
no, my job is not threatened at all, protected by the civil service laws shit for brains...so if you dont know what that means, I dont work for the mayor's office, I work for the city.
""You've always got to look to the next issue," Villaraigosa said in an interview. "And on every issue, there is a different set of allies and friends. You can't hold a grudge in politics any more than you should in life."
But the rising star had also committed an indiscretion that would cost him dearly. He had an affair that became the talk of the Eastside political elite. His wife filed for divorce just one day after he won his first election.
The infidelity cost Villaraigosa the friendship of Molina, among others. Two years later, Corina Villaraigosa took her husband back, but Molina continues to keep her distance.
"The personal stuff has not healed," Molina said. They remain just "political associates," she added."
Gotta love the Daily News. Now, they aren't afraid like the LA Slimes to print the truth and have guts to do it not caring what people will say. GREAT GREAST GREAT OPINION PIECE ON SUMA'S PAL BITTER BERNIE. PEOPLE ARE SENDING THIS ALL OVER THE CITY.
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_6143329
Parks' crusade, Councilman seeks vindication hammering his successor as police chief
BERNIE, before we go any further, know that we're doing this because we respect you. You have too much to give (and the city has too many problems) to waste time and energy seeking personal vindication.
The problem, Bernie - is it OK if we call you Bernie? OK, Chief Parks.
The problem, Chief - scratch that. You're not chief of the Los Angeles Police Department any more. Haven't been for five years. You're now a member of the Los Angeles City Council, and that's a much better job, really. You were elected to this position by the people, not just appointed by a bunch of political hacks.
The problem, Councilman, is your obsession with Police Chief William Bratton.
Five years ago, Mayor James Hahn, acting gutlessly, refused to re-appoint you as chief and hired Bratton instead. And since you've joined the council, hardly a week has passed without your criticizing Bratton about something.
You blast the way he manages the department. You were indignant about the May Day melee. Whenever Bratton produces statistics showing how crime has dropped since you were chief, you quibble about the methodology.
And now you're trying to derail his reappointment to another five-year term.
On Wednesday, you urged the Police Commission to postpone voting on his reappointment. This is necessary, you say, so that "the community can do its own due diligence" on the chief, whom most observers agree has done wonders to improve the culture and the efficacy of the LAPD.
The problem isn't your concerns, Councilman, it's - well, it's you.
It's true that the Police Commission should do more than just rubber-stamp Bratton's reappointment. Indeed, in light of the May Day incident, some extra scrutiny may be in order. But coming from you, these objections ring hollow.
Let's be honest: You are not an objective party on this question. You have a personal stake in this issue. Getting dropped for Bratton had to smart, and it's understandable that you would want history to remember that move as a mistake.
But when we get consumed with history, we lose sight of the present.
When the public hears you criticizing Bratton, it thinks - fairly or not - sour grapes. In the court of public opinion, you've been deemed ineligible to sit on Bratton's jury, due to a conflict of interest. So do yourself a favor, and recuse yourself from this decision.
If the community has concerns about Bratton - which various groups have raised - let the community voice them for itself. Coming from the people, these questions carry more weight than they do from you.
You have much to offer Los Angeles, as a veteran of the LAPD and city politics, and now as a city councilman. There is too much good you can achieve to get bogged down in old battles.
So Councilman, do yourself and us all a favor, get over it. Let's get it on with the task of making L.A. work for the people.
2:28 SHIT FOR BRAINS SR.
SAME SHIT.
YOU LIVE WITH CRAP
YOU SUPPORT THE CRAP
YOU WORK FOR CRAP
WRITE SOON,
SHIT FOR BRAINS JR.
CITY OF SHIT EMPLOYEE
2:35
ya, its all the same shit, that's really the best you got? good for you, capping all your letters really shows how angry and loud you are, I feel really bad about myself now because I work for the city and I dont hate the mayor and talk shit about him. man, you have some serious emotional/psychological problems.
2:41 SHIT FOR BRAINS SR.
MY GUESS YOU WORK FOR PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
OR
YOU WIPE AV'S ASS ON A DAILY BASIS.
the southwest museum has been crumbling for years; if you'd ever been inside, you'd know that even a dozen years ago when I first visited it and it's worse now -- there were virtually no visitors, an empty, old crumbling hull for a vast collection that is considered one of the best on Indian artifacts in the country. If moving the collection to where it will be seen is a disaster in your mind, so be it, and who cares. But I do hope the building can be restored for something -- it is L. A.'s equivalent of an old chateau.
Seems to me, Antonio kept the museum in the public mind long enough for it to be moved to a more viable location. Another red herring for you to try to diss da mayor on: blew up in your face.
If that person works for the city I sure hope they're not using city computers. Its funny how Antonio still has a couple of little groupies trying to make him look somewhat decent. Won't work.
Classic Daily News bad mouthing Bitter Bernie. That has to be the best opinion piece on any clowncil member I think so far. Must have been hard to show his face knowing thousands of people read what a loser you are in the city. True Bitter Bernie definitely needs to get over it.
THE MAYOR'S GONNA TRACK ME DOWN.
I'M IN CITY HALL
LET HIM GET ME AND I WILL MAKE THE DOG EATING LAWSUIT LOOK LIKE CHUMP CHANGE.
YEA, LOOK FOR MY CITY HALL IP AND MY MULTI MILLION DOLLAR HARRASSMENT LAWSUIT BRINGS HIM DOOWN.
Shit for brains Jr.
You're right on both, I work for the planning department and i wipe his ass regularly, i do it for fun, just because thats how much I care.
you get a hard-on from this dont you?
Rocktard LIED on his resume about:
Being on a football scholarship;
Being a pro footbal player;
Being All American;
What else? He ran the lamest campaign since Dan Lungren blew the Governorship and Jerry Brown chewed him up and spit him out.
His office is in shambles; he just jerked Eduardo Angeles out of the Airport job where he was fully qualified, to make him take some bullshit job in City Hall, so he could appoint his old pal, Kelly Martin, from the Riordan Administration, to the top spot.
While she is indeed smart, she knows NOTHING about airports, and Eduardo Angeles knew EVERYTHING about them.
This is good managment? I say, it is bullshit politics, favoring his own friends and politics above good service to the City of Los Angeles. No wonder he can't get any traction. Cooley will finish his career if he dares to run against him.
Zuma, put that into your bamboozle computer and see what you get.
Rocktard is done. Put a fork in him.
12:52pm - Comment of the Week! I'm still laughing!
to 2:33 p.m.: check out the few reader comments on that, too, put things in an even broader perspective on the Bratton-bashing by Parks, and formerly by him and Zine, the other former cop. They don't like his "brash" east coast temperament, i.e., he wants to get things done and not just waste time being spiteful and backstabbling colleagues and other electeds, like these two. If he does bring an "east coast" temperament to the job, that includes dignity -- he wouldn't be caught dead riding in the We Ho parade in that SM leather getup, like Zine, or keep sniping jealously at someone smarter and more successful and "classy" than themselves.
By the way, Parks wrote a similarly snipy attack piece on Bratton for the LAT Sunday Opinion, which was roundly condemned as "Sniping from the Sidelines." Enough already.
This sniping and trying to take down someone they're jealous of is a disease going around town lately, from lesser colleagues sniping at others, to every insecure little nobody. It's only the snipers who are really being brought down.
June 18 -- Villaraigosa and the litigation lobby. One group that may be less than happy about leftist Antonio Villaraigosa's June 5 loss to James Hahn in the L.A. mayoral race: trial lawyers, who've found Villaraigosa a close ally in his powerful post as speaker of the California Assembly. "In the 1997-1998 campaign cycle, Villaraigosa received $612,400 in campaign contributions from personal injury lawyers, a number that works out to be 25% of the almost $2.4 million given to California Assembly candidates," notes California's Torrance-based Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse ("2001 L.A. Mayor's Report", undated). "In the 1999-2000 campaign cycle, he received $220,600 from personal injury lawyers, which works out to be 10 percent of funds contributed to California Assembly candidates." See also Todd Purdum, "Hahn Wins Los Angeles Mayor's Race", New York Times, June 6 (reg).
How sad is it that there is a running debate here whether Antonio or Rocky is worse?
How sad is it that people are debating whether one is a bigger liar than the other?
They're both losers.
They are a by-product of the bigoted Hispanic voter. Let's call a spade a spade.
To vote for someone solely based on their skin color is racist.
It is so sad how many Hispanics will only elect a Hispanic, Blacks a Black, etc. Most whites gave that up years ago.
Don't get me wrong, I am Hispanic (no, I don't prefer Latino). But there are so many much more highly qualified Hispanics out there than Villa-why-bozo and Rocktard DelGhetto.
The Mayor with Past and present Board of Public Works Commissioners, from l to r: David Sickler, Steve Carmona, Cynthia Ruiz, Mayor Villaraigosa, ...
www.lacity.org/photogallery/750_photo10946.htm
Mayor V, Cynthia Ruiz in cahoots with Steve Carmona, George Luk, and infamous George (Mafia) Torres?
The indictment also alleges that George Torres ordered the February 1994 murder of a gang member who demanded a "tax" from a Numero Uno Market and the ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850839/posts
A decisive move by Councilman José Huizar spells trouble for the rowdy 740 Club, a notorious gang .... Numero Uno's George Torres Faces Murder Charges ...
www.laweekly.com/news/news/taming-the-wild-740-club/16555/
It has been nearly 10 years since Avenues boss and Mexican Mafia member Alex .... Soon disgruntled members formed a new gang in neighboring Cypress Park.
www.streetgangs.com/topics/2005/071405ave.html
varrioavenues.com/
Is it a translation of "Carnal." You know, the EME term for blood brother, made man in the Mexican Mafia. Villaraigosa is a committed Leftist.
www.laobserved.com/archive/2004/08/villaraigosa_ma.php
From Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to Councilman Tony ... identifying Marroquin as an alleged Mexican Mafia associate who was
www.laweekly.com/news/news/hector-marroquins-revenge/16569/
Miller indicated, she believes Mr. Villaraigosa funding is coming from FOREIGN NATIONALS, MAFIA, DOPE DEALERS ETC. and this is why Mr. Villaraigosa is ...
mayorsam.blogspot.com/2005/05/money-laundering.html
Is Antonio Villaraigosa linked to organized crime in Mexico? Mexican Mafia...his background has been a bit shady. Did he pursue office to launder money for
mayorsam.blogspot.com/2005/05/breaking-campaign-promise.html
so you last two, are actually quoting from mayor sam blogs of two years ago to "prove" that tony has Mexican mafia connections? Gee, that's sound reporting. Actually, he barely speaks Mexican Spanish and has been derided for it, far as I know, so how likely is it, he's connected to the mafia down there? as to whether or not he ever got Mexican money for his campaign: i have no idea, but it may be true, from people hoping he could sway the immigration debate in their favor. Altho ironically it's been Bush the republican, who has close ties to the business lobby who wants to keep the cheap workforce coming, who wants to legalize more workers (hence guaranteeing more will rush in, to await the "next" amnesty, since this is the second time.) -- frankly, I don't agree w/ all of antonio's politics on this, it's unfair to skilled workers from India and asia and eastern europe, etc., but like most politicians, he has become a lot more moderate since he got elected. He hasn't been solidly backing the unions or even initiating the pro-illegals legislation: it was Janice Hahn, trying to steal some of his Latino thunder, who kept pushing the living wage/LAX area hotels wage increase (getting in her photo ops as a tax-increase bleeding heart, but the legislation was illegal).
So, this race game isn't just being played by latinos or blacks (sharpton attacking Baca over Hilton in reverse racism is a classic, tho), but by all of them, many more hypocritical or self-serving. And Antonio has been front and center in trying to bring a gang truce and healing to Watts, as well as knowing how to shmooze with the westside jews and the white catholics and...-everyone.
yea right mr parkeee skeletor
Obama calls on fathers to be responsible By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writer
25 minutes ago
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Friday that fathers have to share the responsibility for raising children and caring for families because their role doesn't end at conception.
That's how our mayor rolls. Drives off after conception.
Vacates premises.
Leaves the Barn.
Why don't we make one of those 710 shooters mayor. That'll make the bigoted Hispanic voters cream their pants.
Hey 3:05p I'm with you. Yup, little Bitter Bernie sure looks bad to the valley and city cause that piece has been hitting my box from all over. Zine is bi and has the hots for Bernie. No straight man talks and defends another man the way Zine boy does to Parks. We love Bratton tough talk. At least he sounds like a real leader and not some idiot being coaxed by a puppet like ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS. Typical of Zine not to like someone using harsh tones. He's such a pussy and sexual pervert.
Shit for Brains, Sr. and Shit for Brains, Jr?
Oh I thought you were talking about Bernie and Lil Bernie.
Mayor Sam who was Mayor Tom banging? Is that where Antonio learnt it?
Your comments are inflammatory.
Zine is not bi
Nope, he's not bi but he is bisexual.
to those wondering re: Mayor Tom's lady: there was an editorial/op ed in the LAT a year or two ago, after she died, about how she'd been with him the whole time and Ethel knew it but in those days, divorce wouldn't be kosher so it was a threesome. She is the one he was "with" but Ethel did her gardening and photo ops, and she and Tom were friends. This "other woman" was held up in the piece as a model of discretion, but if you ask me, that sort of "arrangement" sucks a lot more than just being in the open like Tony is trying to be (even if he got back advice re: holding that press conference).
About Zine and Parks being hot for each other: I don't know, Parks is a dandee and Zine a -- whatever, but I think they're just bonding against Bratton as former cops who think they have a special right to embarrass him now that they're both Councilmembers and Bratton answers to them. (Smith was also a cop but I don't think he's that tight with these two, he's "the average guy.")
If Zine is hot for anyone on that Council, it's Janice Hahn; they're always ganging up on people together and proposing each other's motions, and I dread to think what else... and she is "available."
Zine likes Jenny.
Jenny?
Who's Jenny?
he used to bang Nathalie Reyes I heard and she banged everyone
Jenny F
2:51pm, 4:14pm=good posts.
And, 4:14pm (maybe you are 2:51pm, too), but only one person YOU can be. I nail you every time, cause you're too good.
right...I must be martha/marita reyes/ elana durazo/ the telemundo chick. or maybe trujillo or numero uno guy, or someone called parkes... gee, i'm not sure myself. Maybe i'm just a lowly reporter getting dirt...
Hi Duke Helllawhatever...
--FAKE MARRIAGE, FAKE NAME, FAKE JOB, FAKE KIDS, FAKE WIVES
you forgot fake law degree.
'Numero Uno' Store Owner George Torres Nabbed For Murder, Corruption
By Jim Kouri
Jun 16, 2007
The owner of the Los Angeles-based Numero Uno supermarket chain, his brother and two associates, alleged to be part of a racketeering conspiracy, have been taken into custody during a two-day operation that also resulted in the seizure of approximately $1.25 million in cash and more than 60 vehicles.
The supermarket owner, George Torres, was arrested at his Arcadia residence without incident. Mr. Torres, 50, was in United States District Court on Wednesday afternoon, making his first court appearance, at which time he was ordered held without bond pending another court appearance on June 20.
George Torres is accused in an indictment with providing an associate with a handgun and instructing him to murder a gang member who had killed a security guard at a Numero Uno store, among other criminal acts.
The 59-count indictment outlines a wide swath of criminal conduct allegedly committed by a criminal enterprise headed by George Torres. Those offenses include murder, solicitation of murder, bribery of a public official, harboring illegal aliens and tax violations.
According to the indictment, Torres and his brother ordered various murders and assaults to maintain control of the criminal enterprise. The murders allegedly ordered by Torres include a fatal drive-by shooting of a Primera Flats Street gang member in May 1993, which was ordered in retaliation for the death of a Numero Uno security guard.
The indictment also alleges that George Torres ordered the February 1994 murder of a gang member who demanded a "tax" from a Numero Uno Market and the murder of a former employee who allegedly stole $500,000 from a Numero Uno Market.
The indictment, which accuses a total of eight defendants of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), was unsealed today and announced by George S. Cardona, Acting United States Attorney in Los Angeles; J. Stephen Tidwell, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles; Timothy J. Landrum, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA in Los Angeles; and Debra D. King, Special Agent in Charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation.
According to the indictment, George Torres currently owns 11 markets in the greater Los Angeles area and, to expand his business, allegedly exercised strict control of his organization and associates, intimidated and murdered potential witnesses against the enterprise, and used the markets to facilitate fraud and tax violations.
George Torres and his brother were arrested yesterday morning. Six additional members or associates of the Torres enterprise named in the indictment have been arrested or have agreed to surrender themselves tomorrow morning to federal authorities. The defendants charged in the indictment are:
* George Torres, who is charged with racketeering, conspiring to violate RICO, violent crime in aid of racketeering (VICAR), "honest services" mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens;
* Manuel Torres-Ramos, 53, of Arcadia, George Torres's brother, who was also arrested and charged with racketeering, conspiring to violate RICO and conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens;
* Steven Torres, 26, of Downey, who is George Torres' son and is charged with VICAR, has agreed to surrender;
* George Luk, 58, of Beverly Hills, a member of the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center Authority Commission, who is charged in the RICO conspiracy and five counts of "honest services" mail and wire fraud, was arrested;
* Steve Carmona, 39, of Pico Rivera, a former commissioner with the Los Angeles Central Area Planning Commission, who is charged in the RICO conspiracy and five counts of "honest services" mail and wire fraud as well as one count of loan fraud, was arrested;
* Gloria Mejia, 57, of Montebello, who is charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, has agreed to surrender;
* Mario Solano Garcia, 52, of Los Angeles, who is charged in the RICO conspiracy, has agreed to surrender; and
*Carlos Monterroso, 51, of South Gate, who is charged in the RICO conspiracy, has also agreed to surrender.
In addition to the arrests, law enforcement authorities executed five search warrants at residences, Numero Uno markets and warehouses.
The indictment alleges that Torres was using his business, Numero Uno Markets, as a corrupt organization, and that he used the assistance of public officials—including former Los Angeles Area Planning Commissioner Carmona and current Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center Authority Commissioner Luk - to obtain valuable licenses and permits for Torres' businesses in return for monetary kickbacks and lavish gifts.
"The greed of these criminals has infiltrated our communities and businesses, bringing violence to our streets," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Landrum. "Those arrested in this investigation are part of an organization that has brought crime, violence and drugs to our street corners in order to bolster their personal wealth. These recent enforcement events show that the continued cooperative efforts between federal, state, and local law enforcement result in criminals at every level of society being brought to justice."
"Corruption, fueled by drug trafficking and murder, penetrates all levels of our society, as exemplified by Torres' alleged use of public officials in attaining wealth for himself and in furtherance of his criminal enterprise," said J. Stephen Tidwell, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles.
"This case was unique in that multiple agencies penetrated separate facets of the Torres criminal enterprise, including narcotics and corruption, and worked together to gather evidence against Mr. Torres and his associates. The FBI and our partners are clearly committed to exposing public officials who offer privilege to those engaging in criminal activity in exchange for personal gain, at the expense of deserving honest citizens," Tidwell said.
The indictment specifically charges the Torres brothers with racketeering activity, a crime that, as charged, carries a statutory maximum sentence of life in prison. he Torres brothers, along with Carmona, Luk, Garcia and Monterrosso, are also charged with conspiring to violate RICO.
George Torres and Steve Torres are also charged in one VICAR count, and Steve Torres is charged in another VICAR count. Both VICAR counts carry a maximum statutory sentence of three years in prison
George Torres, Carmona and Luk are each named in six counts of honest services mail and wire fraud, a charge that carries a maximum possible penalty of 20 years in prison.
The Torres brothers, along with Mejia, are also charged with conspiring to harbor illegal aliens, a count that carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison for each alien in respect to whom the violation was committed.
Carmona is charged with loan fraud, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
George Torres and Mejia are also charged with conspiring to defraud the government by failing to file payroll taxes. And George Torres is named in 55 counts of failing to pay federal income tax on behalf of employees.
Debra D. King, Special Agent in Charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation in Los Angeles, stated: "George Torres' indictment on RICO related charges including violent crime and conspiracy, as well as immigration-related counts, mail and wire fraud, employment tax charges, and criminal forfeiture, is indicative of the success of a multi-agency task force approach in the investigation of criminal organizations. The indictment and arrest of Torres, as well as the substantial criminal forfeiture count included in the indictment, bring to a close a long-term investigation into his criminal activity and serve to disrupt and dismantle Torres' criminal organization."
The indictment also contains forfeiture allegations. The United States Marshals Service is in the process of seizing the Numero Uno supermarkets and other assets owned by Torres.
California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, Special Agent in Charge William Telish stated: "The arrests of George Torres and his associates have resulted in a severe disruption to a multi-faceted criminal organization responsible for murder, racketeering, extortion and other felonious crimes. The eradication of this criminal conspiracy will improve the quality of life for numerous Californians."
Sacramento -- La Opinion reports that a large group of invaders and their supporters descended on the state capitol yesterday to urge Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign "One Bill Gil" Cedillo's wacky legislation that would reward criminals with California driver's licenses [defacto national ID cards]. The notorious Hermandad Mexicana Nacional (of Dornan-Sanchez voter fraud fame), CHIRLA, and the annoying SEIU organized the disturbing event. Union goon Ben Monterroso was also observed on Univision ranting with the invaders.
Cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers and deporting illegal immigrants is Miller's solution to the problem, but opponents of the bill say it's impossible to deport 10 million to 12 million people.
''It's another attempt to blame the immigrant community for the issues of the United States,'' said Ben Monterroso, western regional director for Service Employees International Union.
Former Rep. Brian Bilbray from San Diego introduced a similar bill in the late 1990s, but was unsuccessful in getting it passed.
The current bill, HR 698, was referred to the House Judiciary Committee in February and advocates for and against the bill say it won't go far.
''I came to this country undocumented. I'm a citizen now,'' Monterroso said. ''My son was born here, and right now he's fighting in Baghdad defending this country.
''If crossing the border is considered a crime, the crime that was committed 200 years ago for people who wanted a better future for their family, I'm guilty of that.''
‘‘It's another attempt to blame the immigrant community for the issues of the United States,'' said Ben Monterroso, western regional director for Service Employees International Union. "
Well, hello Ben.......the illegals ARE causing many
of the "issues" on the United States.
Billions of "i$$ue$."
“El Cucuy,” DJ & Community Mobilizer—Presenters: Jaime Contreras, Ben Monterroso, Jose Artemio Arreola (Watch this presentation.)
www.sejtalks.org/sunday/
Ben Monterroso, a Mexican-born labor leader in Los Angeles, is now a U.S. citizen because of California’s Proposition 187, which once denied services to
SEIU Organizer Ben Monterroso will join us for a session on how can we build ... Ben Monterroso has been on the staff of SEIU for more than 20 years
CONNECT THE DOTS
NUMERO UNO
VIGNALI
SEIU
CLUB 540 SOUTHGATE
TORRES-RAMOS
VILLARAIGOSA
HUIZAR
CITY OF LOS ANGELES HEALTH DEPT.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES PLANNING DEPT.
Velasquez Institute (WCVI). Dozens of organizations joined the effort in a series of four ... Ben Monterroso. MAPA. David Morales. LULAC. Eloise Morales
www.wcvi.org/latino_summit/latino_agenda.pdf
The Mayor with Past and present Board of Public Works Commissioners, from l to r: David Sickler, Steve Carmona, Cynthia Ruiz, Mayor Villaraigosa,
www.lacity.org/photogallery/750_photo10946.htm
Torres was the longtime business partner of Horacio Vignali, who gained ... In the spring of 2002, he allegedly gave Carmona a condominium to live in.
STEVE CARMONA PLANNING COMMISSIONER?
DID BRIBES END WITH STEVE?
HOW HIGH AND DEEP DID IT GO?
Torres is best known as a former business associate of Horacio “Carlos” Vignali, who in the late 1990s lobbied city officials, state legislators
who had alleged that the elder Vignali, along with business partner George Torres, ... “How long has the investigation into Horacio Vignali gone bad?
South Los Angeles grocer George Torres largely avoided negative publicity, ... The memo identified one of his financial partners as Horacio Vignali. ...
THE TORRES-VIGNALI CONNECTION is explored in detail in a congressional report that resulted from Pardongate, when revelations surfaced that President Clinton granted clemency for Carlos Vignali Jr. — convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in 1995 — along with other convicted criminals and one-time international fugitive Marc Rich. The granting of clemency occurred after payments were made to Clinton’s brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, the brother of former first lady, New York state senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton…
The DEA documents, obtained by the L.A. Weekly, date back to 1976, when the elder Vignali allegedly negotiated with ATF agents to sell a machine gun and allegedly told them that he had smuggled heroin into the country using automobiles. In 1992, the younger Vignali is alleged to have driven vehicles connected to gangs engaged in drug smuggling. A 1993 DEA report states that the younger Vignali built hidden compartments into a truck for hauling cocaine, and that his father, known as “Pops,” was a supplier for his son. An additional 1993 report describes the Vignalis as heavy gamblers in Las Vegas, friends of the manager of Caesar’s Palace and associates of Numero Uno Markets owner George Torres. The report states that Torres, who like the elder Vignali has a rags-to-riches story and trades heavily in real estate, was worth between $200 million and $300 million.
According to 1993 and 1997 DEA reports, Torres allegedly maintained a warehouse full of luxury vehicles, antique low riders and tractor-trailers used to move cocaine by concealing drugs inside laundry detergent and jalapeño-chile cans. He and Vignali were identified as immediate targets of a drug-trafficking investigation, the report states. The report further states that the DEA had been informed of allegations by investigators from L.A. IMPACT, a joint-powers criminal justice agency, and by the Santa Barbara Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team, that the Torres drug-trafficking outfit came into existence in the mid-1980s, distributing 1,800 kilos by the early 1990s.
A 1998 DEA report states that the elder Vignali was believed to be a financial partner in the Torres organization, allegedly setting up meetings between Torres and “individuals with extensive criminal backgrounds.” They were moving 100 kilos per month, the report states. In 1996, the report states, Torres’ grocery stores had sales of $50 million. Investigators believed he was laundering drug money through his stores and real estate transactions.
Public records show Torres and Vignali engaged in numerous multimillion-dollar property transactions, either as partners or on opposite sides of a deal. While the elder Vignali was known as the well-heeled businessman who rubbed elbows with politicians, Torres was described in DEA reports as a tattooed heavy who flaunted Mafia connections and liked to intimidate his adversaries…
IS ANTONIO VILLAR THE ONLY DIVORCED INDIVIDUAL ON THIS PLANET?
WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT HIS FAILED MARRIGES.
I BET YOU HE IS SNEAKING SOME FUNKY MOVES IN THE CITY ALONG WITH HIS CRONIES AND MILKING THE TAXPAYERS.
MEANWHILE THE REST OF THE HERD IS FOCUSED ON HIS WIFE AND FAILED MARRIGE BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT SATISFY HIM IN BED!
Welcome to the 100 Comment Club!
If it was just a bad marriage that is one thing but this is indicative of everything we have known Antonio to do. Hopefully you will get it someday.
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