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October 26, 2013

Tutorial: How to Inflate Your City Salary

Filed under: General — Tags: , — Bill @ 9:02 am

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Today’s Los Angeles Times reporting about the public corruption trial of Bell, California’s former Deputy City Administrator explains how DCA Spaccia and City Administrator Rizzo allegedly inflated their own salaries.

This is the kind of detailed, how-it-was done news reporting that educates voters and helps make it more difficult for corrupt public officials.   One of the best courtroom exchanges reported in today’s Times story could have applied here in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho:

 [Bell’s former Financial Officer Lourdes] Garcia said she assumed the city attorney had reviewed the council resolution that contained the vacation increases and that Rizzo told staff members that he would discuss changes with council members.

Did you assume the City Council was voting on things they never read?” Garcia was asked by Spaccia’s attorney, Harland Braun.

“Probably,” she said.

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