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LA Times Today: Top LAFD union officers suspended after audit flags $800,000 in credit card spending

LA Times Today: Top LAFD union officers suspended after audit flags $800,000 in credit card spending

Watch L.A. Times Today at 8 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.

The president of the L.A. Fire Departments labor union, Freddy Escobar, long a critic of what he called an insufficient fire department budget and two other people have been suspended after an L.A. Times investigation and an audit revealed $800,000 in questionable credit card spending.

L.A. Times investigative reporter Alene Tchekmedyian has been reporting on the controversies and joined Lisa McRee to discuss it.

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