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Critical fiscal data disappeared, went missing, misplaced new audit in Bell concludes
By Brian Hews and Randy Economy
Los Cerritos Community Newspaper has learned that the city of Bell has remained unaudited for the past three years, including the critical period in which former indicted City Manager Robert Rizzo and seven other city officials were arrested on criminal charges for looting the city’s treasury for their own personal use.
LCCN has obtained documentation this week in the form of an internal emails authored by Bell City Manager Doug Willmore that confirm that the accounting audits for 2009-2010 are “expected to be done in the next 30 days” by the accounting firm of Macias Gini & O’Connell.
“The financial and accounting irregularities that they have encountered have been massive and much larger than anyone could have expected. The backup data needed to perform a complete and thorough audit has been missing, misfiled, or misplaced,” Willmore told members of the Bell City Council this week.
Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to LCCN on Wednesday that their office “was aware of it” but stressed that the DA has not received anything officials from city officials in Bell about the new found possible impropriates.
“Some of the items (in the audit) were presented to the County Grand Jury in the past,” Gibbons said. She also pointed out that a new Grand Jury is impaneled every six weeks and that if there is new evidence of a crime that comes from the audit that a new case could be prepared and presented.
More information will be available tomorrow in Los Cerritos Community News’ print edition.
What massive irregularities found in city of Bell? Shocked I tell you (LOL).. Kind of sounds like the City and County of Los Angeles owned operated and dictated to for DECADES by progressive socialist dem-wit liberal democrats! In all likelihood LA will be the next city to go bankrupt via all the wonderful programs and policies set by Tony Villa La Raza and his owned lemmings on the LA city council… Basically going bankrupt will solve a BAD problem.. All the employee union contracts will be null and void- wall-a no more BLOATED pensions to pay.. and that couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of more deserving folks..
The So called Bell 8 , criminals that ran the city of Bell to the ground with leadership of the Big Fat George Cole as” Don of BELL CARTEL” ( Dave Lopez of Ktla 5), have hide so much info and destroyed many docs that we might never fine out what exactly happened in the city of Bell. Catch Pedro Carrillo( former city manager of Bell) you get all the corrupt business went on in Southeast area.