{"id":4571,"date":"2011-06-01T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2012-07-09T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T00:59:05","slug":"quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4571","title":{"rendered":"Quirks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-vernon27-m,0,7784536.story?track=rss\">Bruce Malkenhorst was convicted of misuse of public funds last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-vernon27-m,0,7784536.story?track=rss\">As part of Malkenhorst&#8217;s plea, he got three years of probation, as much as $35,000 in fines and penalties, and he must pay Vernon back $60,000 in restitution.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep those numbers in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Malkenhorst was the city administrator for the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/09\/vernon-officials-enjoyed-first-class-travel-luxury-hotels-and-limo-service-all-at-city-expense.html\">corrupt city government of Vernon, California<\/a>, a city government so corrupt that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vernon,_California\">the state legislature is trying to disincorporate the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Malkenhorst, as city administrator, is <strong>not <\/strong>an elected official.<\/p>\n<p>Why does that matter?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Malkenhorst, as a non-elected official, gets to keep his retirement pension. California law only allows for the revocation of pensions for elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>Did I say &#8220;retirement pension&#8221;? I meant, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0601-pension-corrupt-20110601,0,3581521.story\">his <strong>$500,000 a year<\/strong> retirement pension<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>He pays about $100,000 in fines and restitution, gets three years of probation, and still comes out $400,000 ahead just in the first year.<\/p>\n<p>Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Malkenhorst was convicted of misuse of public funds last week. As part of Malkenhorst&#8217;s plea, he got three years of probation, as much as $35,000 in fines and penalties, and he must pay Vernon back $60,000 in restitution. Keep those numbers in mind. Mr. Malkenhorst was the city administrator for the corrupt city government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,14,23,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-uber-alles","category-clippings","category-law","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7385,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}