Remember OpenCdA’s post on February 1, 2013, about the public corruption  scandal in Bell, California?

Well, earlier this month the former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo agreed to plead no contest to several of the charges against him in return for testifying against his former Assistant City Administrator, Angela Spaccia.  It’s reported in today’s LA Times article headlined Huge Bell salaries based on “secret formula”, prosecutor tells jury.

The article today was brief, and the most interesting part of it may have been in the last three paragraphs which reported emails exchanged between Spaccia and Bell’s former police chief Randy Adams.

As I was reading the numerous LA Times articles covering the Bell scandal, I couldn’t help wondering why the accounting firm that conducted the City of Bell’s annual audit didn’t question the obviously grossly inflated salaries and the “secret formula” used to calculate them.

I was also disgusted but totally unsurprised at the former Bell Police Chief’s emails.  One of my college professors at WSU told me 40 years ago:  “The only difference between cops and crooks is that cops have badges and the authority of law.”