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Print Three years ago, the head of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission gathered a group of staffers for a meeting to discuss city and state gift laws, which determine how much free food, entertainment and other gratuities a politician can legally accept. Heather Holt, the agency’s executive director, had potentially disturbing news — a member of the City Council had “threatened to cut the Ethics Commission’s budget if they did not give more permissive advice” on certain gift rules,...

The Pandemic Should Not be Used as a Pretext to Muffle the Voices of the ‘Inconvenient Public’ Details LA GOVERNMENT … SHORT ON TRANSPARENCY--According to the Congressional Research Service, as we’ve noted before, the U.S. House of Representatives has met behind closed doors four times during the past 190 years—in 1979, 1980, 1983, and 2008.   That’s about one closed session per half-century.  By contrast, the LA City Council and the LA County Board of ...

To the editor: Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander is on his way to prison. Former Councilman Jose Huizar is awaiting trial on federal corruption charges. Various city employees, lobbyists and a developer have pleaded guilty to corruption charges, but City Hall still has not come forward with any new reforms that will bring transparency to the planning process and prevent another scandal. That is the real crime that no one wants to take on. Ken Walsh, Los Angeles .. To the e...

MY TURN--In sentencing former Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch Englander to fourteen (14) months in prison, federal judge John F. Walter said, “I conclude that greed and arrogance must have also motivated in part this defendant,” adding that there’s “no adequate explanation as to how he totally lost his moral compass and committed this crime.”   I’ve got some other news flashes for Judge Walter: The Earth revolves around the sun; water is wet, the San Gabriel Mountains are hi...

Former LA City Councilman Mitchell Englander sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to his role in Operation Casino Loyale investigation.

On Monday, former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander, 50, was sentenced to 14 months and will begin serving time in June 2021. In July, the former lawmaker pleaded guilty to one count of scheming to falsify material facts after he attempted to manipulate an investigation against him for accepting inappropriate gifts such as cash and prostitutes. “He chose to lie and engage in this elaborate and clandestine scheme to hide his lies, making sure that Businessman A would al...

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander was sentenced Monday to 14 months in prison for lying to federal investigators about his dealings with a businessman who provided him $15,000 in secret cash payments during a night out in Las Vegas.

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the lifting of all regional stay-at-home orders in California, clearing the way for a wider reopening in many regions, including Los Angeles County. Advertisement The governor’s announcement was made amid promising signs that the worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to recede, though the state is “not out of the woods” yet, as Newsom r...

TOP STORIES California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s abrupt move to lift stay-at-home orders — allowing outdoor dining and other business activities to resume — represents a gamble: that the state can avoid another deadly coronavirus surge in the coming months despite a slow, frustrating rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine and the threat of more contagious strains of the virus taking hold. After a catastrophic fall-and-winter surge left about 20,000 people dead, California is seeing new cases fall and...

Former City Councilman Mitchell Englander took cash, casino chips and escorts and then tried covering his tracks.