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Rocky Delgadillo Sells Out

by Antonio Maron Friday, Oct. 28, 2005 at 3:00 PM
amaro@gmail.com

Rocky Delgadillo in bed with LA's most slimy slumlords. Demand that he return the corrupt cash!

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"I think Rocky will bring a fresh look to the attorney general's office, and that's what we need."
---Notorious L.A. Slumlord Stanley Treitel, who contributed heavily to Rockard Delgadillo's campaigns after the City Attorney cut him a deal in court.

Los Angeles City Attorney Rockard Delgadillo has come under intense scrutiny by the LA Times and progressive groups over the revelation that he allowed local slumlords to evade heavy financial penalties in exchange for nearly $20,000 in campaign contributions.

From the LA Times:

"Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo accepted thousands of dollars in political contributions from two landlords accused of operating apartments with slum conditions after he settled a lawsuit against them for a third of the amount the city initially sought.

Lance Robbins, called "one of Los Angeles' most notorious landlords" in the lawsuit, and Stanley Treitel have an extensive history of involvement with properties cited for violations. Inspections of their buildings have found blocked emergency exits, cockroach infestations and faulty wiring on the premises, according to city records."


Read the whole story here:
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-rocky26oct26,0,6471886.story?coll=ktla-news-1

That's right, the "New Face of the Democratic Party" turns out to be a hustling vendido who sells out the poor to make himself richer and more powerful. As if his racist anti-gang posturing isn't bad enough, the guy is being paid to look the other way as slumlords profit by renting hellholes to working people.

According to Delgadillo's campaign website:

"The next Attorney General of California can help lead the fight for people and families across this state who need a champion as they struggle to make a living, pay for health care and secure their retirement."

Sounds like he's not the man for the job.

Unbelievably, Rocky is refusing to return the filthy money. Join the campaign to make him give back the cash and DO HIS JOB. The City Attorney should PROSECUTE slumlords, not cultivate them as political contributors.

Let Rocky know that you don't appreciate the old school politics of corruption. Write him at:

rdelgadillo@atty.lacity.org






 
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by Joe Friday, Oct. 28, 2005 at 4:29 PM
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You know, I can understand Rocky not monitoring every campaign contribution he gets. But according to the “Los Angeles Times,” he didn’t notice three years of contributions by two L.A. slumlords he’s repeatedly prosecuted. Then he said it doesn’t matter, after all, if he took campaign money from those he’s trying to convict. But the best part of the story is how a slumlord payed part of Rocky's ethics fine!
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Slumlords are OUTLAWS, Delgadillo said three weeks ago!

by Suze Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 at 12:36 PM

Here is a direct quote from Delgadillo just weeks ago
on September 29, 2005 at Westside Today (Brentwood Media Group) I guess only some slumlords are outlaws to be pursued, I guess they didn't pay him off.

MID-WILSHIRE LANDLORDS CHARGED

Seventy-two criminal counts of health code, fire, building, and safety violations have been charged against the landlords of five apartment buildings in Mid-Wilshire and Pico-Union areas. The landlords allegedly maintained dilapidated buildings that had poor plumbing, no hot water, and were infested with vermin. The landlords could each face a $1,000 fine and six months in jail if convicted. "These slumlords are outlaws," City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo told the Los Angeles Times. "They are breaking the law, and we are pursuing them."

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New problem for Delgadillo

by News Dept. Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005 at 10:41 AM

LA Weekly, November 11 - 17, 2005

First Call
If you’re a Trojan in trouble, see Nooch
by JEFFREY ANDERSON

So you’re a USC football star and you’ve been arrested. Who do you call?

A well-connected veteran attorney would be nice, preferably a former prosecutor.

A former Trojan, one who has guided your teammates safely through criminal matters, would be even better.

How about an ex-Trojan, ex-prosecutor on USC’s speed dial who just left the City Attorney’s Office as a special assistant to Rocky Delgadillo? Perfect.

Trojan fans take heart; UCLA Bruins fans get ready for a showdown on December 3. Odds are Long Beach attorney Carmen Trutanich will make the potential misdemeanor assault charges against linebacker Rey Maualuga go away without lifting a finger.

Trutanich, a defense lawyer known around Delgadillo’s office as “Nooch,” rotated in and out of his staff job on the 8th floor of City Hall so fast recently, it’s hard to tell if he was coming or going. His ability to work both sides of the street is so seamless, he’s humbled: “I try to conduct myself in a way so that my dad, if he was watching, he’d be proud.”

Pride is fine, but clients prefer results. And Nooch delivers.

Trutanich, USC class of 1973-74, is as much the go-to guy for Trojans in trouble as he is for Delgadillo, whose office will decide in the coming days whether to charge Maualuga for allegedly punching out a partier on Halloween. If charged, Maualuga is scheduled to appear in court November 22.

That’s a big if.

To say that Trutanich has juice with Delgadillo’s office is an understatement. In four months as special assistant city attorney, from July 1 to November 1, by his own account, he handled sensitive negotiations with the Coliseum Commission and developed a multimillion-dollar proposal for a Bureau of Investigation. He also allegedly blurred the lines in his “monitoring” of a lawsuit filed against Delgadillo and former chief deputy Terree Bowers, despite the city’s conflict of interest that led to the hiring of Baker & Hostetler. The suit has so many Los Angeles judges as witnesses that it was moved to Orange County.

Then Maualuga called. It was only natural. Trutanich, a former prosecutor with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, represented former USC cornerback Eric Wright after Wright was arrested on suspicion of rape while in possession of 136 hits of Ecstasy in March. In April, after Trutanich put together a defense team consisting of himself, a Torrance-based attorney and an investigative firm, the D.A.’s Office found insufficient evidence to file sexual-abuse or drug charges, according to news reports.

Last year, Trutanich represented running back Hershel Dennis, who emerged from a four-month investigation for alleged sexual assault with no arrest and no charges. NCAA and Pac 10 officials inquired about pay arrangements in both cases. Trutanich said the families paid.

In June, Trutanich took a leave of absence from his lucrative practice to serve Delgadillo, who also is running for California attorney general. But first, Trutanich wrapped up a criminal case he was defending, which was prosecuted by the City Attorney’s Office.

Within less than a week, he went from criminal defense attorney to Delgadillo campaign contributor to special assistant to Delgadillo.

On June 26, the Daily Breeze reported that Trutanich’s client, Joseph Zacher, pleaded no contest to illegal storage of hazardous waste, after initially facing five counts of illegal disposal, which threatened jail time and a fine of $500,000. Zacher avoided both, agreeing to clean up the site and report to a Los Angeles judge every 90 days.

Four days later, on June 30, according to the secretary of state, Trutanich gave $5,600 to Delgadillo’s campaign for attorney general. (Trutanich also gave $1,000 to Delgadillo’s re-election campaign in 2004, according to the Ethics Commission.)

The next day, on July 1, he became a special assistant city attorney, reporting to Delgadillo. While he won’t disclose his salary, he says he made “a lot less than in private practice,” while working on the deal to bring NFL football back to Los Angeles and a proposal for an investigative unit that would beef up the office’s prosecution capacity.

Trutanich tendered his resignation on September 6 and returned to private practice on November 1, he said this week. The City Attorney’s Office says his resignation was effective September 30. Either way it was convenient for Maualuga, who was arrested on Halloween. “Did someone from UCLA call you?” Trutanich said when contacted by the Weekly. “If this is the best they got, they’ll be looking for help on December 3.”


Trutanich cited Government Code Section 41805 as authority for him to move in and out of Delgadillo’s office like a turnstile on game day, defending criminal matters under the office’s jurisdiction at the beginning and end of his brief tenure. He says he had business cards printed but never got to use them. He offered praise for Delgadillo, Delgadillo chief of staff Ann D’Amato and assistant city attorneys in the criminal branch Maureen Siegal, Charles Goldenberg and Earl Thomas.

Trutanich’s familiarity with Delgadillo’s top criminal attorneys overlaps with a lawsuit the city has been fighting for more than two years. The lawsuit, which Trutanich monitored, involves charges that Delgadillo used his authority to deter the City Council from ordering a special investigation of a discrimination and retaliation complaint by former Assistant City Attorney Lynn Magnandonovan. Goldenberg was a defendant in the case but has been dismissed, according to court records. Thomas is a key witness.

The rub is: The City Attorney’s Office has declared a conflict of interest. Under conflict rules, the City Administrative Office must oversee the private firm handling the case.

Yet Trutanich appeared for the City Attorney’s Office on four occasions and allegedly was seen participating in the defense of the case, which is being handled by Baker & Hostetler: July 18, at the deposition of Assistant City Attorney Zna Houston; July 22, at the deposition of Rocky Delgadillo, which the court has sealed; July 25, at the deposition of Siegal; and August 1, at a second deposition of Delgadillo.

Sources at the depositions said that Trutanich was overheard on his cell phone in the hallway one day telling someone, “They ain’t got shit,” and that he periodically whispered what appeared to be instructions to attorney Larry Gartner of Baker & Hostetler. The City Council has set aside $1.5 million for lawyers’ fees. The city has been billed $1.08 million so far.

When contacted, Gartner declined to comment. Kim Talley, a partner at the firm, later said that Trutanich was simply there to observe. Jonathan Diamond, a spokesman for Delgadillo, said, “There’s a big difference between monitoring and oversight.”

Nooch says it was all in a day’s work. “Rocky asked me to monitor the lawsuit, to make sure the city is getting its bang for the buck,” he told the Weekly. “I was there as a representative for him and the city. I think I added value with my input. If you were involved in a lawsuit, wouldn’t you want to be able to communicate with your lawyer?”
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tenants evited today

by Suze Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2005 at 8:51 PM

Remember Thanksgiving weekend when Venice tenants protested outside Delgadillo's house. He invited some in and they decided he was nice guy after all. Well they were evicted today, just before Christmas. These were same tenants waiting at City Council meeting last week while LaBonge et all tossed basket ball and made sports bets. Yet another unjust, actually illegal, eviction Rocky let happen. Fraudulent use of Ellis Act has penalties including jail time, but do you think these owners will be penalized at all?
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Ms.

by teresa aguilar Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006 at 2:29 PM
tessmrqz@yahoo.com 213-605-0307

can you tell me where does one go when Mr. Delgadillo and Mr. Lockyer fail to do their job as far as civil rights violations re lockouts? Can one file a complaint with the U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, or where? ... Thank you.
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is tampering on the internet a crime?

by teresa aguilar Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 at 3:31 PM
aguilar.teresa@yahoo.com 213-605-0307 p.o.box 241109 los angeles ca 90024

I am terresa aguilar and I did not place the negative comment above about Mr. delgadillo. Should you wish to know about my case, please see federal court at CADC case # # EDCV 09-856-VAP (OPX)or copy & paste http://www.geocities.com/aguilar.teresa/MyFedCase.html or www.geocities.com/li1022bra/fedcase509.html
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