California Corruption & Politics: Full Disclosure Network® Report

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Aug 23, 2010, 06:10 ET

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- County District Attorney Steve Cooley is no stranger to public corruption. Now a candidate for the office of California Attorney General, he launched a massive investigation into political corruption in the tiny City of Bell California. Other corruption issues could overshadow Bell and his candidacy for Attorney General. Full Disclosure Network has produced video programs for public cable TV covering LA County Corruption, featured also on our website http://www.fulldisclosure.net

L A COUNTY PUBLIC CORRUPTION PROGRAMS

Steve Cooley investigated the infamous Belmont Learning Center built by the LA Unified School District costing three-quarters of a BILLION dollars and is known as "The World's most expensive high school" built atop an old oilfield with methane gas. Watch this 3 min video on Belmont featuring all the players.
Gang and drug cartels infiltrate small LA County city councils during the past decade. Thirty-three year veteran Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Valdemar describes how gang and drug cartels were taking over politics in a 2006 video. This ten minute video describes what happened leading up to the Bell scandal. http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Programs/478.php
Judicial Watch legal organization won their lawsuit in 2008 against LA County (Sturgeon v. County of L.A.) holding that County Supervisors payments totaling $300 million to State Superior Court Judges were illegal. Judge's were prohibited by law and Judicial Canons of Ethics from accepting money from other than their employer. Video 6 min Here

TAXPAYERS' FUNDS USED TO GAIN 3RD TERM FOR COOLEY

Steve Cooley convinced the five County Supervisors to use taxpayer funds to overturn the popular voter approved Two-Term Limit initiative in the Superior Court of Los Angeles so he could run for a third term. Cooley's re-election challengers complained he was not prosecuting major corruption. Watch this 8 min video preview . Yet, Cooley was re-elected with support from the political establishment of L A County.

To date Steve Cooley has failed to respond to the Full Disclosure Network's request for investigation of the County Supervisors when the public and the media were denied access to five of the ten Board meetings held in Washington DC in violation of the California Open Meeting Law last May. Read the full report here http://blog.fulldisclosure.net/2010/08/d-cooley-wont-investigate-l-county.html

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L A Supervisors Caught On Tape: Dodge Open Public Meetings Law

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