Another Top Aide to Reiner Announces His Resignation

Another high-ranking aide to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner announced his resignation Friday.

Administrative assistant Neil Rincover, who was Reiner’s chief political aide, said he was leaving in order to return to full-time political consulting.

Rincover, 31, who served as a campaign coordinator during Reiner’s successful 1984 candidacy and has also worked on the campaigns of Sen. Alan Cranston and state Sen. John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove), said he intends to join the campaign staff of a major California candidate in 1986. He said he will disclose which campaign in the near future.

Rincover’s resignation comes on the heels of the resignation earlier this week of Cheryl J. Ward Smith, Reiner’s special assistant in charge of family support, domestic violence, sex crime and child-abuse matters. Smith, 41, left to return to the Los Angeles city attorney’s office, where she had served under Reiner as chief of criminal operations.