Full Coverage: City of Bell Investigation
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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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Was former Bell official Angela Spaccia’s claim that she was an unwitting participant in boss Rizzo’s crimes convincing? The jury’s still out.
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L.A. County judge also orders the former Bell administrator to pay the city nearly $9 million in restitution.
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Angela Spaccia is the first ex-Bell official to be sentenced in the municipal corruption case. She also must pay the city $8 million.
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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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Five former Bell council members plead no contest to misappropriating public funds, ending the prosecution of city leaders accused of bilking Bell out of more than $10 million.
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Officials say the city’s gotten $5.5 million in legal settlements and sold $15.5 million worth of property, leaving it in the strongest shape since 2010, when it defaulted on bonds.
