{"id":7200,"date":"2010-09-25T14:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2010-09-25T14:49:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T18:49:42","slug":"bell-ca-officials-arrested-in-corruption-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7200\/bell-ca-officials-arrested-in-corruption-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell, CA Officials Arrested in Corruption Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/07\/27\/two_small_cities_with_big_troubles_238454.html \" target=\"_blank\">systemic corruption of public finances<\/a> in the City of Bell, CA, is not over.\u00a0 Earlier this week Los Angeles <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/09\/bell-charges-rizzo.html\" target=\"_blank\">police officers arrested eight current and former Bell officials<\/a> on charges of misappropriating upwards of $5.5 million in public funds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s often said that if private business owners kept their books like the government does, there would be lots of CEOs in prison.\u00a0 With the Bell scandal showing that fraud is criminal no matter who does it, the people who\u2019ve grown rich at the public\u2019s expense should start looking over their shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>The cops \u2013 and the pitchforks \u2013 are coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of the systemic corruption of public finances in the City of Bell, CA, is not over.\u00a0 Earlier this week Los Angeles police officers arrested eight current and former Bell officials on charges of misappropriating upwards of $5.5 million in public funds. It\u2019s often said that if private business owners kept their books like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1717,351,1275,1200],"class_list":["post-7200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-city-of-bell","tag-corruption","tag-fiscal-responsibility","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}