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Sly · 07-26-2010, 01:36 PM

This is nuts.

Calif. subpoenas LA suburb records in salary probe

By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer
3 mins ago
LOS ANGELES ? California's attorney general said Monday he has subpoenaed hundreds of records from a Los Angeles suburb under investigation for sky-high salaries paid to its leaders.
Attorney General Jerry Brown demanded to see employment contracts from the city of Bell within 48 hours to determine whether to file charges.
The move followed last week's resignation of Bell's city manager, assistant manager and police chief. They earned a total of more than $1.6 million a year to run the poverty-plagued city of about 40,000 people.
"The real question is what were they thinking?" Brown said at a news conference. "What was the atmosphere in Bell that would allow this and make it plausible at least to the members of the City Council."
The administrators also could make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in state pensions. Brown said his office and the state public employee pension fund were reviewing salaries in other communities around the state.
"There is no question we are dealing in a very uncharted area of the law," Brown said. "It's uncharted because no one has ever felt they could pay themselves $800,000 or thereabouts."
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has launched its own investigation into the salaries.
The mayor and other leaders also could find their jobs in jeopardy.
The Bell City Council called a meeting for Monday to discuss the future of the city. Activists were expected to demand salary cuts or resignations from the four council members who make more than $100,000 a year for their part-time work.
The Bell Association to Stop the Abuse has threatened to recall the council members if they don't resign or lower their own salaries.
Nearly 300 raucous protesters marched Sunday to the homes and workplaces of the mayor, vice mayor and two council members yelling "Fuera!" or "Out!" Some carried signs and wore T-shirts proclaiming, "My city is more corrupt than your city," and passed out fliers urging people to attend the council meeting.
The salaries exploded into public view after a Los Angeles Times investigation, based on California Public Records Act requests, showed the city payroll was bloated with six-figure salaries:
? Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo made $787,637 a year, getting a series of raises since being hired in 1993 at $72,000. President Barack Obama makes $400,000.
? Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia made $376,288 a year.
? Police Chief Randy Adams earned $457,000 ? $150,000 more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.
Bell Mayor Oscar Hernandez and three of the council's four other members make about $100,000 a year, most of it in salaries for sitting on various boards and commissions. Councilman Lorenzo Velez makes a modest salary of about $8,000 a year.
If there is a recall, the Bell Association to Stop the Abuse said it would like Velez to stay on the council and work toward reforming government in the city where one in six people live in poverty and about half are foreign-born.

Sly · 07-26-2010, 01:36 PM

Oops I wrote the wrong amount. Sorry. Nonetheless, insane.

Police chief = $475k

MaDalton · 07-26-2010, 01:38 PM

i see i am in the wrong business - that's insane

JustDaveXxx · 07-26-2010, 01:38 PM

Been following that story. The town is really pissed off. Cant blame them.

Vendzilla · 07-26-2010, 01:39 PM

this was just on the news, thats crazy, but I hope they learn from this and find out what some of these government officials are making and fire them

baddog · 07-26-2010, 01:40 PM

I do not know that you can truly appreciate how outrageous of an amount that is if you have never visited Bell. I would take Compton or Watts over Bell any day.

Smokieflame · 07-26-2010, 01:47 PM

Ridicules! My step dad is an administrator for a federal police office in Texas, he makes $85k and works 70+ hours a week.

alias · 07-26-2010, 01:48 PM

Easy money. Does this mean crime pays?

gmr324 · 07-26-2010, 01:52 PM

That's incredible. does he get paid commissions for every arrest? How do they justify that figure?

brassmonkey · 07-26-2010, 01:52 PM

shit ill take his place 350k and ill sleep in the station. kind of like the fire department. 500k im there 24/7

bufferover · 07-26-2010, 01:55 PM

Huh that's a lot for a Police chief

Amputate Your Head · 07-26-2010, 02:00 PM

Nooooooooooo!

It can't be! It's the illegals draining the system! Admins or someone, delete this thread!!!

brassmonkey · 07-26-2010, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Nooooooooooo!

It can't be! It's the illegals draining the system! Admins or someone, delete this thread!!!

the people in your state elected him

that makes you guys....

Sly · 07-26-2010, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

the people in your stated elected him

that make you guys....

The people in one small city elected them.

I was just reading the entry for Bell on Wikipedia. They had a vote a few years back, only 400 people turned out for the vote. LOL. That's insane. Either the whole population can't vote or doesn't care enough to vote. Those 400 people were probably all little old grannies.

Ethersync · 07-26-2010, 02:14 PM

Ridiculous.

baddog · 07-26-2010, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly

The people in one small city elected them.

I was just reading the entry for Bell on Wikipedia. They had a vote a few years back, only 400 people turned out for the vote. LOL. That's insane. Either the whole population can't vote or doesn't care enough to vote. Those 400 people were probably all little old grannies.

I never would have guessed that they had 400 registered voters there. I bet that was a fairly large percentage.

Quote:

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

the people in your state elected him

that makes you guys....

Only Amp can compare <half a million to billions. Pretty sure if our problem with illegals only cost us $1 million no one world care.

JustDaveXxx · 07-26-2010, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly

The people in one small city elected them.

I was just reading the entry for Bell on Wikipedia. They had a vote a few years back, only 400 people turned out for the vote. LOL. That's insane. Either the whole population can't vote or doesn't care enough to vote. Those 400 people were probably all little old grannies.

400 are the only ones that have a right to vote.

Cant vote if you are a felon.

Cant vote if you are illegally here.

Cant vote if you cant read.

Amputate Your Head · 07-26-2010, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

I never would have guessed that they had 400 registered voters there. I bet that was a fairly large percentage.

Only Amp can compare <half a million to billions. Pretty sure if our problem with illegals only cost us $1 million no one world care.

And that was only one single member of the police. How many more are making retarded amounts of money off of us? Only baddog can't do math.

_Richard_ · 07-26-2010, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alias

Easy money. Does this mean crime pays?

now at reduced sentences!

aimeesweet · 07-26-2010, 02:33 PM

I saw that on the news... absolutely ridiculous!!!

Amputate Your Head · 07-26-2010, 02:34 PM

Another fine shining example of how our illustrious police are really doing us a public service.

brassmonkey · 07-26-2010, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Another fine shining example of how our illustrious police are really doing us a public service.

shit police like money like everbody else.

kristin · 07-26-2010, 02:40 PM

Where's Amp? This thread had police in it, he should have been here by now.

This is pretty fucked up ...

sortie · 07-26-2010, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kristin

Where's Amp? This thread had police in it, he should have been here by now.

This is pretty fucked up ...

Good question because clearly it's someone else that hacked his nick and posted 3
times in this thread before you did.

2012 · 07-26-2010, 02:53 PM

protect , serve .... and get paid yo

Sly · 07-26-2010, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sortie

Good question because clearly it's someone else that hacked his nick and posted 3
times in this thread before you did.

Ahahahaha.

Due · 07-26-2010, 03:39 PM

High salaries for the Police helps reducing organized crime...

It's a lot easier to bribe someone with a 100k / year salary over someone with a 500K / year salary..

baddog · 07-26-2010, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Due

High salaries for the Police helps reducing organized crime...

It's a lot easier to bribe someone with a 100k / year salary over someone with a 500K / year salary..

Good point.

kristin · 07-26-2010, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kristin

Where's Amp? This thread had police in it, he should have been here by now.

This is pretty fucked up ...

Ahh I didn't refresh before I posted and I straight up missed the first post. I'm not use to his new avatar. My bad.

pornmasta · 07-26-2010, 03:42 PM

There is no money in porn

VGeorgie · 07-26-2010, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog

I do not know that you can truly appreciate how outrageous of an amount that is if you have never visited Bell. I would take Compton or Watts over Bell any day.

That's quite true. It's a shit box of a town. A lot of the ones along the 710 corridor are.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly

They had a vote a few years back, only 400 people turned out for the vote.

It was a special election and I'm not sure people truly understood what it was about.

A nearby town, Vernon, has an actual census population of 91 people, according to Wiki. It's almost entirely made up of inbound workers. Placed is filled with meat packing companies, food processing outfits, importers, wholesalers, and dollar store jobbers.

D Ghost · 07-26-2010, 03:59 PM

let them burn

VGeorgie · 07-26-2010, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

the people in your state elected him

that makes you guys....

The position of police chief isn't elected. Like in LA it's a political appointment.

brassmonkey · 07-26-2010, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ The Kid

let them burn

illegals or the police

or both

Barefootsies · 07-26-2010, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton

i see i am in the wrong business - that's insane

I'd have to agree. Damn.

whoops · 07-26-2010, 04:15 PM

Haha, $475k for running a 40k population city is just retarded money.

07-26-2010, 01:36 PM	#1
Sly Let's do some business! Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 31,319	California police chief = $787k salary This is nuts. Calif. subpoenas LA suburb records in salary probe By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer 3 mins ago LOS ANGELES ? California's attorney general said Monday he has subpoenaed hundreds of records from a Los Angeles suburb under investigation for sky-high salaries paid to its leaders. Attorney General Jerry Brown demanded to see employment contracts from the city of Bell within 48 hours to determine whether to file charges. The move followed last week's resignation of Bell's city manager, assistant manager and police chief. They earned a total of more than $1.6 million a year to run the poverty-plagued city of about 40,000 people. "The real question is what were they thinking?" Brown said at a news conference. "What was the atmosphere in Bell that would allow this and make it plausible at least to the members of the City Council." The administrators also could make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in state pensions. Brown said his office and the state public employee pension fund were reviewing salaries in other communities around the state. "There is no question we are dealing in a very uncharted area of the law," Brown said. "It's uncharted because no one has ever felt they could pay themselves $800,000 or thereabouts." The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has launched its own investigation into the salaries. The mayor and other leaders also could find their jobs in jeopardy. The Bell City Council called a meeting for Monday to discuss the future of the city. Activists were expected to demand salary cuts or resignations from the four council members who make more than $100,000 a year for their part-time work. The Bell Association to Stop the Abuse has threatened to recall the council members if they don't resign or lower their own salaries. Nearly 300 raucous protesters marched Sunday to the homes and workplaces of the mayor, vice mayor and two council members yelling "Fuera!" or "Out!" Some carried signs and wore T-shirts proclaiming, "My city is more corrupt than your city," and passed out fliers urging people to attend the council meeting. The salaries exploded into public view after a Los Angeles Times investigation, based on California Public Records Act requests, showed the city payroll was bloated with six-figure salaries: ? Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo made $787,637 a year, getting a series of raises since being hired in 1993 at $72,000. President Barack Obama makes $400,000. ? Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia made $376,288 a year. ? Police Chief Randy Adams earned $457,000 ? $150,000 more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck. Bell Mayor Oscar Hernandez and three of the council's four other members make about $100,000 a year, most of it in salaries for sitting on various boards and commissions. Councilman Lorenzo Velez makes a modest salary of about $8,000 a year. If there is a recall, the Bell Association to Stop the Abuse said it would like Velez to stay on the council and work toward reforming government in the city where one in six people live in poverty and about half are foreign-born. __________________ Vacares - Web Hosting, Domains, O365, Security & More - Paxum and BTC Accepted Windows VPS now available - 3 months free for GFY members - 3 slots available Great for TSS, Nifty Stats, remote work, virtual assistants, etc. Click here for more details.

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