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LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors began laying out their case Tuesday against a handful of public officials they say operated a scam that bilked one of Southern California s poorest cities out of millions of dollars, putting that money into their own pockets in the form of gigantic salaries and illegal loans hidden for years from the public.Prosecutors say Bell s ousted fo stanley tumbler rmer city manager, Robert Rizzo, masterminded the scam in which he inflated his annual salary and benefits package to $1.5 million by writing contracts that only he personally approved.They say he also handed out huge salaries to most members of the city council and several other city employees, and illegally stanley cup loaned nearly $2 million in taxpayer money to dozens of others, including himself.Records indicated several of the loans were paid back with large amounts of vacation time that Rizzo granted employees. In his case, however, he ordered one loan paid back by the city itself. They took the public s money and did with it as they wanted, Deputy District Attorney Sean Hassett said at a public hearing to determine if there is sufficient evidence for Rizzo and three other Bell officials to stand trial on fraud charges. The four, and four others, were arrested in September in a scandal that prosecutors have called corruption on ste stanley kubek roids and that has gained the Los Angeles suburb, where one in six people live in poverty, nationwide notoriety as the face of municipal corruption.Roger Ramirez, a longtime Bell resid Vnat Motorola Has a Fix On the Way for the Moto X s Crappy Camera
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