Bell City, California: Lessons in Looting the People

[FrankRep]

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Robert Rizzo



Eight former or current Bell City, California, officials were arrested on Tuesday for looting the city for themselves and their friends, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. by Bob Adelmann


Bell City: Lessons in Looting (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4668-bell-city-lessons-in-looting)


Bob Adelmann | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
22 September 2010

[mello]

No government employee should make more than the President. If I remember correctly the
President makes around $450,000 a year. I'm pretty sure that the guy that is running the post office
into the ground makes close to $800,000 also.

[oyarde]

No government employee should make more than the President. If I remember correctly the
President makes around $450,000 a year. I'm pretty sure that the guy that is running the post office
into the ground makes close to $800,000 also.

One in six residents of Bell is below poverty level in income . Average income is 30 k per year .

[FrankRep]

City Officials Arrested in Los Angeles Suburb (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/us/22bell.html?_r=1&hp)


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Top row, from left: Councilman Luis Artiga, former Councilmen Victor Bello and George Cole and Mayor Oscar Hernandez.
Bottom row, from left: Vice Mayor Teresa Jacobo, Councilman George Mirabal, former City Manager Robert Rizzo and former Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia