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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, according to a March 2018 email written by a commission staffer who has identified herself as a whi...

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 Supervisors average about one closed session per week. Congress managed to keep its debate open duri...

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 editor: Englander, who represented District 12 on the Los Angeles City Council, is going to prison fo...

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 higher than Death Valley.  (Photo above: Former councilman Mitch Englander,)  While city councilmem...

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