Bell: The Scandal’s Beginnings
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Bell isn’t a big town, or a wealthy one. But some of its top officials are paid double or triple the salaries of their counterparts elsewhere.
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Robert Rizzo seemed right for the town -- until he became an ‘unaccountable czar.’
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The city asked voters to back conversion to charter status in 2005, the year the California Legislature limited the pay of council members statewide. Only 400 people in a city of 40,000 voted on the measure.
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Eight are held in scandal the D.A. calls ‘corruption on steroids’
