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Friday, November 12, 2010

HACLA Rudy Montiel's "get rich scheme" garners unwanted attention

Mayor Antonio Villar (right) with his $400,000+ Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Rudy Montiel (left).
To say that corruption does not exist within the dysfunctional agency known as the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), is to say that Mayor Antonio Villar has been a "transparent and ethical beacon" at 200 Spring Street.
Simply, the state of public housing under the control of HACLA is a legal and dysfunctional trainwreck, with its corrupt toxic fumes polluting the political air at City Hall. But lets make no mistake here, this stench has been around for years.
Now with Ron Kaye's latest missive on HACLA Executive Director Rudy Montiel's scheme for self-enrichment and his actions against tenants who protested outside his Rancho Cucamonga "mansion",the "big shining light of investigation" is pointed again at HACLA and what will be the end result? Maybe much-needed reforms.
The HACLA's Public Housing Projects are gang-infested fiefdoms that breed future generations of gang members and foster dependency on the largess of government (ie. WIC, Food Stamps, Welfare, mixed with subsidize, sub-standard housing).
But where I differ with Ron Kaye on his excellent missive regarding Montiel's actions at HACLA, is the premise that Montiel acted alone in crafting this scheme. It is true that Montiel stand to gain financially but who was to "give his final blessings" on what non-profits, would get the contracts to run HACLA' housing domains? One should maybe look on the right of the picture above.
In the Ramona Gardens Projects, the new "Connected Non-Profit Legacy LA" was not only created to revitalize the Hazard Park Armory, but in the minds of community observers, was the "Trojan Horse" that would reinvent the Ramona Gardens Community to meet the needs of USC's future expansion plans.
Many have opine that Ramona Gardens would become the workforce housing location for future employees of USC's planned expansion of its Medical School Complex and the Biotech Corridor Project of the CRA Eastside-Adelante Redevelopment Area. This can be backed up with the past comments from the likes of USC Chief Lobbyist David Galaviz and CRA's Steve Valenzuela, who grew up in Ramona Gardens.
Most would agree that the Ramona Gardens area is in need of reinvention and the Mission of HACLA needs investigated vetting. But the issue of providing for our city's housing dependents and hopefully educating them with the tools to become future homeowners, should not be usurp by questionable legal dealings, that foster more governmental dependency.
Your thoughts................
Scott Johnson in CD 14

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11 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much of THIS write up is lies and other things you conjured up?

I just want to get a better handle on whether or not you actually fact checked things this time around.

November 12, 2010 11:22 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

And while we're speaking of Trojan Horses, who is NBC/Universals'?

Why it's Mayor Sam!

November 12, 2010 11:39 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I'm not going to bother reading this, but does anyone else notice how Tony Villar always looks like his underwear is just a lit-tle too tight?

November 12, 2010 11:46 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

VILLARAIGOSA: "Haha. Red Spot said, 'subsidize, sub-stanrdard housing.'"

MONTIEL: "ROTFL. Then he said, 'the Mission of HACLA needs investigated vetting,' and he called me 'Motiel!'"

VILLARAIGOSA: "LOL, good ones!"

November 12, 2010 12:30 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Red Spot,

This is NOT a SENTENCE!

"Now with Ron Kaye's latest missive on HACLA Executive Director Rudy Montiel's scheme for self-enrichment and his actions against tenants who protested outside his Rancho Cucamonga "mansion".

November 12, 2010 1:52 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Captain Jack,
Seems to be some internet search chatter indicating some HEAVY interest in Andrew Adelman, as relating to his persistence in challenging Villaraiogsa on inspections of illegal billboards.

But you posted about Alarcon and Los Feliz, yesterday. And there is some billboard controversy there, too.

So is it possible something is going to be announced regarding indictments over billboards? And if so, of whom?

And if you can reply in a way that people other than Keith Richards can understand it would be even more appreciated. But I don't think it's possible.

November 12, 2010 2:01 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The Feds need to come to LA and investigate. I'm hoping Cooley get the votes for AG because you can bet your ass he will come after all the Mexican Mafia thugs on council.

November 12, 2010 2:05 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The Worksource Sign in the background of that picture makes me want to throw up. Villaraigosa and the public union thugs are diverting federal job training funds to corrupt purposes of enriching the non-profits run by the likes of SEIU and AFL-CIO. The only jobs created by these programs are the do-nothing jobs of the bureaucrats themselves.

November 13, 2010 7:32 AM  

Anonymous g said:

WE HAVE A LOT GOING ON WITH THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT THEY WERE CALLED OUT THIS WEEK BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON RUDY'S DISREGARD FOR PEOPLE IN HIS PROJECTS. YOU CAN READ IN THE PAPERS ABOUT THE BUSES OF PEOPLE WHO WENT TO RUDY'S HOME TO GET ATTENTION. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY ISSUES FACING THIS CITY TO DO WITH LAND THIS COUNCIL IS WORKING WITH CITY PLANNING TO REVISE THE ZONING CODE. THIS WILL EFFECT EVERYONE INCLUDING THOUGH'S IN HOUSING TRACTS AND SPECIFIC PLANS. IT'S ALL DONE UNDER EVERYONE'S NOSE. NOW THEY CAN RENAME A DISTRICT TO ALTER WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH LOTS THROUGHOUT LA AND EVEN AVOID EIR'S. GO TO LACITY.ORG. LANEIGHBORS.ORG LOOK AT WHAT THIS COUNCIL IS PASSING WHILE YOU SLEEP. I'LL GIVE YOU A HINT WHO ELSE IS WORKING TO FORCE THIS DEPUTY MAYOR BEUTNER.

November 13, 2010 3:32 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I am a resident at the Culver City housing projects, I have been under constant threats by Montiel and his lynch men. Please, please send the FBI to investigate Montiel, the commisionor, and mayor. They have neglected public safety, the have put blacks and latinos against eachother. A young black male was shot in culver city, rudy montiel was fully aware of the dangers this young man was facing, and he ignored it. Please, please, please, would someone save us residents from these organize crime members. All we are asking is for an investaigation, and the truth will set as free.

November 22, 2010 10:51 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I am a resident at the Culver City housing projects, I have been under constant threats by Montiel and his lynch men. Please, please send the FBI to investigate Montiel, the commisionor, and mayor. They have neglected public safety, the have put blacks and latinos against eachother. A young black male was shot in culver city, rudy montiel was fully aware of the dangers this young was facing, and he ignored it. Please, please, please, would someone save us residents from these organize crime members. All we are asking is for an investaigation, and the truth will set as free.

November 22, 2010 10:54 PM  

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