Breaking- DA Sweeps Bell- 8 City Officials In Custody
A face made to be a mug shot
Robert Rizzo-former Bell City Manager
LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley has initiated a raid this morning and arrested 8 Bell city officials on charges related to a salary scandal that emerged earlier this year.
From the LA Times;
[Updated at 10 a.m.: Former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo, whose high salary sparked the outrage that led to the investigations of the city, was among those arrested in the sweep. No details have been released, but a source not authorized to speak publicly about the case said that Rizzo; former Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia; Mayor Oscar Hernandez; Councilmembers Luis Artiga, Teresa Jacobo and George Mirabal; and former Councilmembers George Cole and Victor Bello were among those arrested.]
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Posted by Unknown @ 9/21/2010 10:04:00 AM
25 Comments:
Why can I not look at that photo without thinking of Tony Soprano?
When will the mug shot be of Alarcon, Garcetti, or Perry?
Why not just post a link to the article rather than excerpting it through your rose-tinted glasses?
Is he a Democrat?
10:43= red spot, "when will the mug shot be."
Jesus.
FANTASTIC! It's about time!
Good to know that someone in Steve Cooley's office reads THE JENNERJAHN REPORT.
http://thejennerjahnreport.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-steve-cooley-must-arrest-robert.html
I called for this action over a month ago.
Jennerjahn for City Council!!
See Phil, this is why people see you as a court jester.
You attended half a year of law school, but didn't know that "cleaning up city hall" is not the city council's business, but that of the city attorney.
Since you didn't know the basic role of city council, why is it that anyone should trust you in this?
Hmmm, and where did the "50x what Ron Kaye raised," or $200,000 go?
Were you lying about that amount you said you raised? Or did you squander it on gambling?
Let's see. Would I vote for a guy who finished well behind a homeless man by 10,000 votes; who stole a fellow republican's url, and then reneged on a promise to give it back?
Would I vote for a man who got booted out of The Westside Republicans?
Would I vote for a man who quit on the Recall on the first day when "noone" showed up for the press conference?
Would I vote for a man who posed in the FRIGID WINTER in a t-shirt to get a supposed manly looking photo in front of the Capitol building?
Would I vote for a man who calls candidates and constituents alike childish names on his blog?
Would I vote for a man who, within the course of 18 months wanted:
1. to be Mayor, but finished last.
2. to be a Congressman, but finished last.
3. Wants to be a city councilmember, but HARRASSED A MAN BASED ON FALSE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS?
No. I would not vote for this man. This man is Phil Jennerjahn. The one in the childish cowboy hat and belt buckle, who disrupts civil public meetings.
Try again Phil. I'd vote for LaBonge a hundred times if you're the only other choice. You don't even want the man to get his LEGALLY EARNED pension.
You are a hater of freedom, especially those of us who cast fair ballots.
The people in and around Richard Alarcon's district should really get started, right away, as in today, on finding the most serious, credible, money grassroots candidate ever. Alarcon will be resigning from his seat to stay out of jail. Because they got him nailed to the wall and he knows it. And his racket-ring buddy F. Fuentes is even worse than Alarcon. (Think old school bosses compared with the newer, more aggressive school of gangsters.)
You cannot wait until after the fact when he officially steps down to start acting. These politicians definitely do indeed use their offices to run for these council seats. And you probably can't even beat him, anyway. You better start now. Doug McIntyre isn't on in morning anymore and his show is all national - and Kevin James isn't on until midnight. It's not the same media landscape as when Trutanich and other issues got a big boost from these outlets.
Don't make the exact same mistake you make each and every time. Do not wait until it is printed in the L.A. Times. START NOW! NOW! N! !
Thanks Phil, we couldn't have done it without you. Your call to arrest everybody was what we needed to accomplish this difficult task, and without your insight, us idiots at the DA's Office would still be wondering what to do about Bell. Thank you so much. Please take all the credit.
Wasn't Rizzo in Goodfellas? Or was it Casino?
He has a face like a broken sofa, Higby.
If Rizzo gets put into general jail population, expect him to be bending over alot.
Johnny Lemmon Head
South Gate
Maywood
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Huntington Park
Bell
Bell Gardens
Is there a pattern?
Hispanics
Does anyone wonder why Mexico and other Central American countries are sh*tholes? A few corrupt guys in business suits become politicians supported by the small percentage of wealthy friends, with the rest of the citizenry toiling like slave labor. And these La Raza azzholes and their compatriots say they're going to conquer the United States?
The way it was. The way it is. The way it shall be.
Why is it that the worst towns in our country, the most violent and corrupt are run by DEMOCRATS?
uthorities discovered a methamphetamine lab at a Bell home owned by the city’s mayor early today and arrested two men, officials said.
Narcotics investigators raided a home in the 3800 block of Bell Avenue about 1:30 a.m. and found a “super lab,” capable of producing 20 pounds of methamphetamine at one time, said Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. The investigators were part of a multi-agency state task force.
Saldana said two men were taken into custody, and two young children, ages 2 and 3, were placed in protective care. The suspects’ identities were not immediately available.
The home, one of three units on the lot, is owned by Bell Mayor Oscar Hernandez, who said in a phone interview that it was one of several properties he owns and that he rented it out to a young couple in their 20s. He said the husband was one of the men arrested. Hernandez said that although his son and daughter live in one of the units, his family knew nothing about the lab and had nothing to do with it.
“Nobody smelled nothing. I never got any complaints, and it’s a small community and the houses are close to each other,” said Hernandez, who runs a corner grocery store down the street and has been the city’s mayor since March.
Oscar Hernandez a Democrat
I guess it goes without saying that he’s a Democrat. Not that any news stories will mention that he is a Democrat. But he is a Democrat."
No wonder California is broke.
Guess which party? – Bell CA
2010 AUGUST 12
by Reactionary
You all know the long running joke about how the media won’t name a corrupt official’s political affiliation if they’re a Democrat, but how the media finds it relevant enough to put it in the headline if they’re a Republican. Here they go again:
There have been hundreds of news stories about Bell city officials’ jaw-dropping salaries. In this poor city on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the per capita annual income is $24,800 a year, the city manager, Robert Rizzo, had a salary of $787,637… With benefits, his total annual compensation, according to the Los Angeles Times, came to $1.5 million a year… Not only that, but Rizzo was entitled to 28 weeks off a year for vacation and sick leave.
According to Nexis, there have been more than 300 news stories reporting on the Bell scandal. Guess how many mentioned the party affiliation of the corrupt government bureaucrats?
One. Yes, just one. Now guess if the government officials were Democrats or Republicans? Yes, that is correct…
The one newspaper to cough up party affiliations, The Orange County Register, admitted that the corrupt officials were all Democrats only in response to reader complaints about the peculiar omission.
Lots of news stories on the scandal in Bell used the word “Democrat” or “Democratic.” But that was only to say that the DEMOCRATIC attorney general of California, Jerry Brown, who is running on the DEMOCRATIC ticket for governor, is investigating the Bell officials’ salaries.
So we know the media are aware of party affiliations. They just chose not to mention it when it would require them to identify shockingly corrupt government officials as Democrats.
I found this at Ace of Spades, who adds:
…this is the clearest, most inarguable example of media bias there is. There should be a simple rule — a stylebook rule — dictating that a politician caught in corruption should have his party affiliation noted in the first paragraph…
But the MFM refuses to impose such a stringent rule. They want to keep the freedom to only note the party affiliation of corrupt Republicans while not mentioning it at all with regard to corrupt Democrats.
They want, as they call it, the freedom to apply their judgment and examine context. In their judgment and in context, they always find that the party affiliation of corrupt Republicans is relevant, but the party affiliation of corrupt Democrats never is.
Ann Coulter: In 300 Stories On The Bell Salary Scandal, Only One Mentioned The Party Affiliations of the Corrupt
Keyser Sosa said the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Gee, I guess Republicans NEVER do anything wrong, do they? ALL Republicans are pure, pristine, upright, moral and righteous. Oh, and none of them are gay and they don't take money they never earned, either.
8:40 Democrats are corrupt.
Statistically speaking, there are far more corrupt Democratic politicians. Dems outnumber Republicans in Washington, control most governorships and state congresses, and control just about all medium to large city councils.
8 down, thousands to go.
Next........
Maywood
Lynwood
Compton
Los Angeles
Bell Gardens
Cudahy
SOUTH GATE
http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2008/06/eastside-insider-lou-moret-faces.html
Eastside Insider Lou Moret faces lawsuit in South Gate for "Robles Era Dealings" I SMELL ALATORRE
WOW! Every single one of the 8 Bell City Officials arrested yesterday were Democrats! Speaks Volumes...
THIS KIND OF THING SHOULD HAPPEN IN LA. WE ARE ALL BEING ROBBED. AT LEAST THE LATINS IN BELL GOT PETITIONS AND ORGANIZED AGAINST THEIR GOVERNMENT. NO ONE IN THIS TOWN HAS THE BALLS TO DO THAT HERE. I HOPE THEY GET THERE MONEY BACK, BUT NO ONE EVER HOLDS THESE POLITIANS ACCOUNTABLE THAT'S WHY THEY KEEP DOING IT. IF YOU WANT TO FIX GOVERNMENT MAKE REAL EXAMPLES OF THESE PEOPLE GET MONEY OUT OF THEM THEN PUT THEM IN JAIL FOR A LONG TIME MAKE SURE THEY CAN'T RUN FOR ANY OFFICE AGAIN
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