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November 19, 2013

Bell Corruption: Tightening the Coeur d’Alene Connection

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: — Bill @ 1:12 pm

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Last Saturday’s OpenCdA post titled Coeur d’Alene’s Connection to the Corruption in Bell asked why Angela Spaccia was interested in buying some very expensive property in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.  More specifically, we wanted to know what Spaccia’s connection was and is to Coeur d’Alene.

Today, we have a much better idea.

 

The question was partially answered in this morning’s Los Angeles Times online article headlined Bell’s Spaccia, prosecutor have tense exchange over benefits, sick leave.  As Times reporters Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives state in their news story today:

An email shown to jurors also provided details about a house in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, that Spaccia was trying to buy with her boyfriend, helped along with a $200,000 loan from Rizzo’s mother-in-law. In the email, Spaccia said she was getting a deal because the property was appraised in July 2009 for $2.66 million and she was paying only $1.6 million.

The sale fell through, and Spaccia still owes Rizzo’s mother-in-law $100,000, she said in court last week.

But the real interesting tidbit is from a document with this bureaucratic caption:

Spaccia Proposed Decision CALPERS

Here is a link to the entire document.  It is about 26 pages long, however scroll down to “Factual Findings – Ms. Spaccia’s Employment History Before July 2003 – Item 10″ on page 3.  This is the interesting part:

Spaccia Finance Director

So sometime between 1994 and 2000, Angela Spaccia, one of the persons figuring so prominently in the Bell, California, public corruption scandal, served as Kootenai County’s Finance Director.

Whaddaya know about that?

 

2 Comments

  1. Like Susie said, “jaw dropping.” But, at least they have an “email” – up here, that kind of stuff is destroyed and lost.

    “An email shown to jurors also provided details about a house in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, that Spaccia was trying to buy with her boyfriend, helped along with a $200,000 loan from Rizzo’s mother-in-law. In the email, Spaccia said she was getting a deal because the property was appraised in July 2009 for $2.66 million and she was paying only $1.6 million.

    The sale fell through, and Spaccia still owes Rizzo’s mother-in-law $100,000, she said in court last week.”

    Comment by Stebbijo — November 19, 2013 @ 6:27 pm

  2. Also, and there is so much in this area, it all gets so mixed up. While Sheryl Carrol was the woman who was slapped with city wire fraud – I think of Sandy Martinson concerning the county embezzlement. McDowell evidently succeeded Spaccia – however, there isn’t much, connecting her to this area other than a sealed case out of Post Falls, Idaho – at least on the internet.

    The county must have some sort of physical record concerning Spaccia’s employment as Finance Director for Kootenai County.

    Maybe, the city will hire her back after her fiasco in Bell, CA is all said and done.

    Comment by Stebbijo — November 19, 2013 @ 8:06 pm

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