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Coliseum hid reports of financial woes, records show
The overseers of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum concealed from the public independent reports of lax financial controls and widespread spending abuses at the taxpayer-owned stadium that included sloppy accounting of hot dog sales and excessive perks...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hot Dogs
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Panel OKs Coliseum lease deal
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, teetering on the brink of financial ruin, approved a controversial deal Monday to surrender day-to-day control of the historic venue to USC. The 8-1 vote would virtually end public stewardship of the 88-year-...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Jerry Brown, Crime, Law and Justice, Bankruptcy, Justice System
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Coliseum faces millions in losses
The governing body of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum learned Wednesday that it is expected to lose millions of dollars this fiscal year, driving the taxpayer-owned stadium into a much deeper financial ditch as it reels from a costly corruption scandal....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Don Knabe, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Corporate Crime
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L.A. Coliseum had scant controls over spending, audit finds
A new city report assails officials in charge of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for failing to impose even basic financial controls, allowing the routine squandering of public money and permitting corruption to take root in "a dysfunctional and risk-...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Antonio Villaraigosa, Career and Workplace, Justice System, Zev Yaroslavsky
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Benefits push Bell ex-manager's compensation to more than $1.5 million
Former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo, whose $787,637 salary prompted widespread outrage, received an unusually lucrative package of benefits that increased his annual compensation to more than $1.5 million, according to city records reviewed by The...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Public Officials
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Highly paid Vernon consultant to step down
For years, Eric T. Fresch was the powerful hand that guided the city of Vernon. As city administrator he earned as much as $1.65 million a year, making him perhaps the highest paid municipal official in the nation. Last year, when his compensation and a...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Interior Policy, Financial Planning, Pension and Welfare, Finance
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Residents irate as Bell council requests report on salaries
A Bell councilman said Monday that he didn't know his salary was $90,000 a year less than his colleagues' nor that some city administrators made far more than that, until The Times reported that the district attorney's office was investigating why the pay...Tags: Robert J. Lopez, Career and Workplace, Unemployment, Interior Policy, Barack Obama
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Bell leaders hauled off in cuffs
Eight current and former Bell city leaders were arrested Tuesday on charges of misappropriating more than $5.5 million from the small, working-class community as prosecutors accused them of treating the city's coffers as their personal piggy bank. The...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, George Cole, Jerry Brown, Crime, Law and Justice
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Coliseum panel's secret talks could jeopardize proposal on USC
In a hushed, dark-walled hearing room, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission had gathered for some momentous deliberations, finalizing a plan to turn the 88-year-old, taxpayer-owned stadium over to USC.
But first the panel members shut the doors,...Tags: Bankruptcy, Crime, Law and Justice, Jerry Brown, Zev Yaroslavsky, Government
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Third request for records filed with IID
Staff WriterThe same firm that filed a request for copies of email correspondence between the Imperial Irrigation District and the Imperial Valley Press, as well as correspondence between IID directors John Pierre Menvielle, Stella Mendoza and Anthony Sanchez, has... -
Site of deadly Pasadena fire has rough past
The El Sereno Avenue home where two men died in a Nov. 1 explosion and fire was under investigation by city officials over allegations of illegal construction and substandard living conditions that date back to 2003, according to city records. At the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Public Officials, Justice System, Trials, Rentals
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City Council Meeting Wrap-Up
The following is from the Oct. 16 City Council meeting. All council members were present. * PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS The public is allowed to speak on any subject not on the agenda. Speakers generally are limited to three minutes, but the time can be...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Local Elections, Substance Abuse, Broadway Theater, Social Sciences
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