RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: THE IRWINDALE FOUR: CITY OFFICIALS INDICTED ON SPENDING OUR MONEY ON BROADWAY SHOWS, YANKEE GAMES, TRIPS AROUND THE WORLD, YADA YADA YADA. IS YOUR CITY HALL NEXT....?

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

THE IRWINDALE FOUR: CITY OFFICIALS INDICTED ON SPENDING OUR MONEY ON BROADWAY SHOWS, YANKEE GAMES, TRIPS AROUND THE WORLD, YADA YADA YADA. IS YOUR CITY HALL NEXT....?

Image via WikipediaBy Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
OCTOBER 27, 2010
1:10 p.m.

LOS ANGELES –

Move over Bell 8, and meet the "Irwindale 4!"

Yep. Rack up four more local city officials on felony corruption charges today.

Four Irwindale city officials, including a current council member, have been charged with misappropriation of public funds after they allegedly attended Broadway shows and baseball games during trips to New York to get a better bond rating for the city.

Charged in case BA377327 are Councilman Mark Breceda, 50; retired city manager Steve Blancarte, 56; finance director Abe De Dios, 65; and former councilwoman Rosemary Ramirez, 49, said Deputy District Attorney Nipa Cook with the Public Integrity Division.

Defendants Breceda, Blancarte and Ramirez are scheduled to appear this morning in Department 30 at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center for arraignment. De Dios, who is out of town, is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday.

Between 2001 and 2005, the officials traveled to New York for up to six days at a time allegedly in an effort to get a higher bond rating for the city. However, prosecutors allege that during each trip, the officials bought tickets to Broadway shows and sporting events that had nothing to do with city business.

On various trips, the four attended plays such as “Aida,” “The Producers,” “Phantom of the Opera” and “Mamma Mia,” along with attending Yankees and Mets games. Estimated loss is about $14,000.

BTW. If your local city councilman takes taxpayer trips and party's like a rock star, do all of us a favor and call Steve Cooley's Public Integrity Division and turn em' in. Enough is ENOUGH!

What city hall will be next.....?

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

THE IRWINDALE FOUR: CITY OFFICIALS INDICTED ON SPENDING OUR MONEY ON BROADWAY SHOWS, YANKEE GAMES, TRIPS AROUND THE WORLD, YADA YADA YADA. IS YOUR CITY HALL NEXT....?

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