{"id":6466,"date":"2012-02-28T15:44:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2012-07-09T19:38:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T00:38:46","slug":"the-latest-news-from-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6466","title":{"rendered":"The latest news from Bell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has tossed out one of the felony charges against a former mayor of the city of Bell, and two felony charges against a former council member.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/02\/bell-mayor-councilman-court.html\">Both Oscar Hernandez and Luis Artiga, however, still face felony charges for allegedly collecting excessive pay for sitting on city boards and commissions that rarely, if ever, met.<br \/>\nHernandez and Artiga are among six former council members in Bell who were charged in a massive public corruption case that left the city near bankruptcy. One charge was dropped against Hernandez. Two charges were dismissed against Artiga, who had accepted two cash loans.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/02\/bells-robert-rizzo-seeks-to-have-corruption-charges-dismissed.html\">an earlier <strong>LAT<\/strong> piece<\/a>, Robert &#8220;Ratso&#8221; Rizzo was also asking for the charges against him to be dropped; I can&#8217;t tell from this article if the judge turned down that request, or simply hasn&#8217;t ruled yet.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/02\/bell-judge-refuses-to-toss-out-corruption-charges-against-rizzo-.html\">Ratso and Angelia Spaccia lost their bids to have the charges dismissed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has tossed out one of the felony charges against a former mayor of the city of Bell, and two felony charges against a former council member. Both Oscar Hernandez and Luis Artiga, however, still face felony charges for allegedly collecting excessive pay for sitting on city boards and commissions that rarely, if ever, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-uber-alles","category-clippings","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","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=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7356,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/7356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}