Ask not for whom the Bell tolls…

The three top administrators of the city of Bell, California, agreed to resign yesterday.

These are:

  • the city manager, Robert Rizzo, who was pulling down $787,637 a year (leaving at the end of August).
  • the chief of police, Randy Adams, who was making $457,000 a year. (Adams also apparently will stay through August, “after completing an evaluation of the Police Department”.)
  • assistant city manager Angela Spaccia, $376,288, leaving at the end of September. Spaccia was also serving as the acting city manager for the city of Maywood. Remember Maywood?

Yesterday’s LAT also had a survey of recent municipal corruption in the area around Bell. Some high points:

  • the Lynwood City Council, which was indicted in 2007 for using city money for personal ends, including hiring strippers.
  • South Gate, “a reign of governance so flamboyant in its nasty badness that ‘South Gate’ became shorthand for corruption and politicians gone wild.”
  • Vernon, where the city administrator was pulling in $600,000 a year, got hit with a corruption indictment, and retired “with a record-high state pension of $500,000”.

Edited to add: Oh, look! Robert Rizzo also faces drunk driving charges! (Hattip: Reason “Hit and Run”.)

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