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Print Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander, convicted in a sprawling City Hall corruption case last year, has begun serving his 14-month sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, prison records show. Englander was sentenced in January for lying to federal authorities about his dealings with a businessman who provided him $15,000 in secret cash payments and a debauched night in Las Vegas. He was the first to be imprisoned in a probe that has also produced felony charges against former City Councilman Jose Huizar, former deputy mayor Raymond Chan and several others. Englande...

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Collar Flap Incident at the Ethics Commission Details THE CITY-The Board of Supervisors gave Sheriff Alex Villanueva three minutes to speak at Tuesday's board meeting. He rambled on about how unfair the Board was being to his deputies who the board was alleging had engaged in horrible conduct toward family members of victims who had lost loved ones following encounters with the department.  I registered to provide a comment but once again the board announced it would only take 60 minutes of public comment total -- including agenda items and general -- and ran out ...

LA Recusals, Public Comment, and Other Musings Details LOS ANGELES- Metro: Thanks to the LA Metro records team for providing the AT&T invoices for teleconferencing service for metro meetings.  We've been paying $386/hour for speaker sub/conference administration management and $309/hour for an Event Producer on meeting days. That's $695/hour to put on a conference call.    Bonin who loves pumping NextGen Bus service and fareless anything told the board when he was finally called up to speak, "my hand has been up since the beginning."   It's work in progr...