Bell CA Officials - Show Me the Money!

[Ghostwriter]

Maybe a little Mafia stuff going on in Bell, CA?

BELL, Calif.-- Three administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the City Council said Friday.
Council members emerged from an hours-long closed session at midnight Friday and announced that they'd accepted the resignations of Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia and Police Chief Randy Adams.
Rizzo was the highest paid at $787,637 a year -- nearly twice the pay of President Barack Obama -- for overseeing one of the poorest towns in Los Angeles County.
Spaccia makes $376,288 a year and Adams earns $457,000, 50 percent more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.
The three will not receive severance packages, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Rizzo will step down at the end of August and Spaccia will leave at the end of September. Adams will also leave at the end of August, after completing an evaluation of the police department, the Times said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...est=latestnews

[PiKA2001]

It's crazy how much they were being payed, and the pensions too! The city council should have to answer to this.

[AOII_LB93]

It's a total mess and has been all over the news out here. It's not like Bell is a nice place to be or live. The funny thing is these guys were all defending their pay to the media...the average Bell resident doesn't even make 1/3 of the cheapest guy. Way to screw your city and it's residents.

[AnchorAlum]

I watched some of the council meeting on TV and was appalled. The citizens seemed like hard working folks absolutely making it from payday to payday and these worthless bloodsuckers are making more money than most senior city officials in LA?

They should be dismissed and their pensions rolled over to an IRA so that they have to work to make it grow like the rest of us.

I think the little guy won in Bell CA. Good news.