Anarcho-Capitalist Good News: CA files lawsuit against leaders of troubled city

LOS ANGELES -The California attorney general's office sued eight current and former officials of the scandal-ridden city of Bell on Wednesday, accusing them of defrauding taxpayers by granting themselves salaries so high they were illegal and a disgrace to public service.
The suit demands the officials, including former City Manager Robert Rizzo, return hundreds of thousands of dollars they were paid to run the small, working-class city where one in six people live in poverty.
It also demands the reduction of bloated pension benefits that were based on the high salaries.
The salary scandal sparked nationwide outrage and calls for cities of all sizes to publicly disclose what employees are paid.
Rizzo's salary was $787,637 a year — nearly double that of President Barack Obama. Bell police Chief Randy Adams, who later resigned, was paid $150,000 more than the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
"You can't just take the public's money and give it to yourself or give it to your friendly employees or members of the city council just because you want to," said Attorney General Jerry Brown, a candidate for governor. "There's a standard and that standard is that the pay must be commensurate with the duty and the work."
Brown called the Bell salaries "enormous and obscene" and not anywhere in line with those paid to officials in most cities of comparable size.

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Anarcho-Capitalist Good News: CA files lawsuit against leaders of troubled city

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