The little paper that can — and did expose criminality in the L.A. County Assessor John Noguez’s office — has published an article based 640 pages of documents accusing L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel of spending ” an overwhelming majority of her official schedule for the past three years attending lavish dinners, lunches, breakfasts, and social events in an effort to advance her 2013 mayoral campaign.”
In a copyrighted article, Los Cerritos Community Newspaper reporter Randy Economy and Publisher Brian Hews said Greuel’s campaigning activities represented a possible violation of city ethics laws. It took six months to pry the records of Greuel’s calendar out of her office, an apparent violation of the California Public Records Act.
“We had received tips from inside her office that Gruel was campaigning on county time, so LCCN requested copies of her 2009-2012 daily calendar,” Hews said. “LCCN was able to conquer a bureaucratic maze created by the Controller’s Office that included being told more than 15 times that our request was being ‘gathered’ by personnel in her office.”
“The process to obtain the records was extremely arduous and involved. As a public official, whose calendar is open to the public, I expected this process to be simple, and for city staff to be helpful rather than adversarial toward releasing information about a public employee, especially to a community newspaper,” Hews said. “This treatment certainly raised some red flags.”
The newspaper broke the story a year ago about how Noguez and his aides were giving massive property tax deductions to clients of individuals while funneling large campaign contributions to the Assessor. Charges are pending against Noguez and several others.
Told you before and I`ll say it again and again. Wendy is the most corrupt, hypocritical, double faced, back stabber, incompetent, ambitious politician ever walked the halls of City Hall.She makes her buddy 11% Mayor look like a workaholic. btw, Antonio`s enablers areall in Wendy`s inner circle. Hopefully LA Slimes will wake up and do story who are the people around each candidate. We cannot afford 8 more years of failure!
The publicity hound Greuel, who does not miss an opporunity to announce the findings of an audit in a press conference, chose to make a sole source contracts audit at DWP public by posting it on her web site on New Year`s eve. Who is she protecting? A Greuelgate cover up?
Why not add the CD2 Essel run for her Soviet Seat on the Clowncil. She certainly lent her time and name to that too! Wendy like the rest of the load of paid-off TRASH that ruins this City break the law by being on the public dole like they are. I went with a friend to the Van Nuys courthouse as he was facing eviction from his broken down and nearly uninhabitable home. All the streets behind and surrounding the Courthouse had potholes and cracks. All the sidewalks were filled in with cracks. BUT, all the PARKING METERS WERE BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW and the METER MAID CARS WERE TOO===BUSY WRITING THOSE FUCKING TICKETS on the poor saps going to the courthouses around there!
At the end of the day, my friend who has zero interest in politics and never reads a blog said this “L.A. is all about payoffs and big money, the People here don’t matter one cent…” Yep, no one said it better today for sure.
The Judge gave some extra time for my friend to “vacate” the “premises.” He’ll move on to another City or County—which may in reality be a blessing in disguise. Or like so many of us, he’ll be stuck dwelling here because there’s no real way out of Dodge.
Meanwhile, in Vichy Encino—the 3 McMansions are being constructed at RECORD PACE! Soon this year, we’ll have 3 houses sitting side by side WITH NO BACK YARDS OR POOLS, and 35 feet up in the air with 5 beds and 5 baths each! Then they’ll be bought by JEWISH FOOLS who will pay over a MILLION BUCKS A PIECE to only later mortgage these houses and lose them to be bank in a few years!
Originally, these 3 houses sat on a 33,100 sq ft. lot with a 1922 Victorian Mansion with a hundred old growth trees, a basement with a recording studio, and a 45 x 21 ft olympic sized pool! Then the developer bought it for 1.2 million in 2004 with the “assurance” that it would be “developed.” What happened of course was it was bulldozed down, along with every single tree on the lot and a few of the neighbors trees to boot! The permit they got called for NO TREES to be cut.
In the end…The City got a 10,000 sq ft “Dedication” with developer paid sidewalk and street lights. Then the lots were divided in to 3 lots (10,000 sq ft, 8,000, and 7,000 sq ft.) No problem if the City of L.A. just OVERDENSIFIES your neighborhood overnight—YOU THE HOMEOWNERS DON’T MEAN SHIT!
They’ll just let anyone build a fucking BUILDING next door to your Single family home. Ex-Valley is right—we get what we deserve!
Finally, I found out FEDEX just kicked in new rate HIKES on it’s shipping charges. 5% increase from just 8 days ago, in fact!!! What are you going to do? Send it with the Post Office?
They may as well be McMansions because if the yard size were to be in proportion to the house size their water bill would do them in before any defaulted mortgage payment. Those water folks do not allot any additional water for people with properties over an acre.
If they don’t give extra water past one acre without increased financial penalties, then they shouldn’t charge for any run off beyond one acre’s worth when they hit us with the run off tax.
Oh wait, I forgot, this is America and equal protection has been factored out long ago.
Your comments crack me up.
Living in this city is making me want to give it all up, go back east and go Amish.
Not seriously—but it’s crossed my mind more than once.
Do the Amish get free water?
That’s a very good question. I’ve just begun reading about them because I grew up in Amish country and saw buggies on the road a lot. I do know they don’t accept taxpayer money for their schools. It’s likely they use well water, but don’t quote me on that. Since they are farmers they need water.
Greuel is a cronic LIAR. She is quoted in the Times that “H. Cisneros placed her in charge of earthquake relief ” after the Northridge earthquake. The point person was J. Emerson, an Angeleno working in the Clinton White House .The lazy Times should talk both to Emerson and Mayor Riordan. You want to hear another LIE? She brags of initiating LA BEST program. The program was well under way when she started as clerk in Bradley`s office. Again , lazy Times should do some homework, before gobbling up her b.s. More lies and distortions to follow. Stay tuned
The LA Slimes` heading in its profile of LIAR Greuel states ;”Greuel walks a tightrope in mayor`s race” . That`s the politically correct way of saying , she talks from both sides of her mouth. Finally the world is closing on her and it`s only January. We knew all along she has been kissing Durazo`s and D`Arcy`s asses. I hope D`Arcy puts a lot of dinero in this race on behalf of LIAR Greuel, so there will not be any doubt when our DWP rates skyrocket whom to thank.
I’m outside the topic, but this is too important for all to know and share with others. The more of us that wake up to the lies the stronger we’ll become.
Innocents Betrayed: The History of Gun Control
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Police Officer Exposes The Unanswered Questions Of The Sandy Hook Tragedy
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Antonio/Greuel; birds of LIARS feathers.
Antonio on KNBC ” I had a three minute conversation (W. Charlie Sheen)
Sheen on TMZ .” We hang out for the better part of two hours”…..”..he can drink with the best of`em:me”
Of course Antonio and Wendy like each other and the same people……….
Here’s a good laugh –”In response, Greuel campaign consultant Dave Jacobson denied any wrongdoing by the controller, saying she conducted herself in a manner no different from that of President Obama or any other elected official in campaign season”. Her mentor the Mayor has been partying and campaigning for the last 8 years.
Anonymous 6:52 ; Wendy is a good student. Worked very hard in the last 3 yrs to emulate her mentor , 11/% Mayor Antonio Villar , otherwise known as FAILURE.
Let`s see what our new DA does about this ” abuse ” , to use Wendy`s favorite word, of public money!
ROFL
Nothing nada. Same as Villar’s ticket gate
What are you going to do?
Yeah, what are you going to do besides comment about it over here in the 4th dimension cyberspace?
Has anyone seen this?
http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/
Wendy’s cheif strategist has hired a criminal defense attorney. Wonder what that’s all about.
Damien, I told you on Jan 7, at 6.27pm, that Wendy is in a cesspool swimming with political hacks and opportunists. Hopefully LA Slimes will wake up.