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Rudolf "Rudy" Montiel is out. The former head of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles had enjoyed a fat-cat employment package while overseeing the agency responsible for providing shelter to L.A.'s most vulnerable residents. Now he's at the center of controversy, but he may not be alone.
For this installment of our on-going investigative series, "Show Me the Money," we spent six months reviewing the documents of HACLA's leaders. Now, correspondent Laurel Erickson details how city agencies have been spending (or misspending) taxpayer dollars, and you may be shocked to find out where the money's going.
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Federal Agencies must Investigate and prosecute City Officials who abuse their power to enrich themselves from money they receive from the Tax payers.These individuals should be treated as common criminals the only difference between a public official and a common offender is the way they look and dress.
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DMoore says :
As a HACLA employee I have been suing them to return to work since 2006, they have now claimed that I was made a permanent employee by clerical error, however, I took and passed the public exams (written and oral), had been working in the position for over two years, and several officials had to sign off on the change of status form. Joseph L. Stark, the attorney paid $204,100. per your video, is the attorney HACLA even paid to appeal my unemployment in May 2005, the first time they refused to allow me to return to work after a temporary disability. They claimed I was not eligible for unemployment because I had not quit, I had not been terminated, and was disabled; yet they refused to allow me to return. I am being deemed a whistle-blower. I told Montiel in a company meeting that HACLA was in violation of a Federal Mandate for low income tenants. See Superior Court case: BC352769; BC452009; BS131048; US Federal District Court Case: CV07-7632-GW(CW), how can they justify what they are doing to an employee who passed all the exams, worked for several years, was off on temporary disability, then cleared to return to work by some of their own doctors? Retaliation and discrimination, that's how!