Monday May 12, 2008
Bell Gardens, Huntington Park and State Senator Ron Calderon:
The Boston Globe reports on corruption in these cities.
Taco Trucks, Steve Cooley and Corrupt
Politicos in Maywood, Bell Gardens &
Huntington Park; Gangsters in Suits
Editor's note: The following is a report published by the L.A. City Beat on
Thursday May 8, 2008. So, WatchOurCity.com has not been off the mark. The
mainstream media is finally catching up to 4 years of reporting by WatchOurCity.
com, since March of 2004. City Beat's report contains the following catch
phrases which are sure to pique the curiosity of this website's gentle readers,
and the not-so gentle: Corruption, City Attorney for Maywood and Huntington
Park Francisco Leal, State Senators Ron Calderon and Gil Cedillo, ongoing FBI
investigations, criminal indictments, Huntington Park, Mario Beltran, Cudahy.
The Boston Globe notes in a report from December 2, 2006: "Corruption Hits
Cities in L.A.'s Shadows": "A string of gritty suburbs in the shadow of Los Angeles
has produced a growing parade of public officials jailed for corruption, and
prosecutors say illegal schemes on a scale more commonly associated with big
Eastern cities have devoured tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Those
problems have given the area of southeast Los Angeles County at least a whiff
of the rogue politics that became the stuff of legend in New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago. South Gate and other towns including Lynwood, Bell Gardens,
Maywood, Huntington Park and Vernon dot an area that once was blanketed with
cauliflower and berry fields, until it was marketed decades ago as a suburban
refuge where homes were affordable, the weather mild and opportunities rich."
Guess who is the city attorney for those cities? Francisco Leal, who is good
friends with California speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez, and also of
Rosario Marin. Marin's protege slate awarded Leal the lucrative city attorney
contract in Huntington Park in closed-door session and without competing bids.
Marin still lives in Huntington Park and was appointed by the Governor to head
California's Consumer Affairs Division, a $4 Billion dollar State agency. Marin is
state Republican party operative, was a Bush appointee to the U.S. Treasurer's
office, and is the other "brownie" doing a heck of a job ("Brownie, you're doing
a heck of a job").
_________________________________________________________
L.A. City Beat, By Alan Mittelstaedt
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The D.A. man needs your help bringing to justice the “gangsters in suits,” as one
prosecutor describes some of the people who run the corrupt cities southeast of
downtown L.A.
Even if Steve Cooley were firing on all cylinders, he couldn’t do it alone. He’s tried.
He’s in over his head. And, for good and for bad, he is coasting to his third four-year
term in the largely ignored June 3 election. Big Bad Steve should pick up the phone
today and ask the FBI to help him put together a sting operation to target elected
officials he’s heard reams of complaints about over the years.
Wire a straw man in one of the cities – Cudahy, Maywood, Bell Gardens – and see
what trouble you can document. Make it part of a joint county-fed task force.
If Big Bad Steve does it right, Angelenos, who get a bad rap for being apathetic
about issues that really matter, could show as great an interest in public corruption
as they do in a crackdown on taco trucks. Instead, the D.A.’s office announced an
indictment last week that most of the 12 million people in the region probably didn’t
even notice.
Bell Gardens Councilman Mario Beltran faces embezzlement charges after a
yearlong investigation, several weeks of grand jury hearings and testimony from
more than 54 witnesses.
If convicted on all 13 counts – seven felony theft counts, a felony perjury count and
five misdemeanor counts for campaign disclosure violations – Beltran could go to
prison, since he was already on probation for filing a false police report. Even if he’s
acquitted, his career as an elected official, even in the sleazy netherworld of
southeast L.A. County, is likely over. Beltran’s attorney, Jorge Gonzalez, said similar
cases often warrant a “slap on the wrist. It’s clear to us that Mario isn’t being treated
fairly.”
The indictment is remarkable mostly for what is not contained in its eight pages,
considering what the public already knows about Beltran and his associates. It also
shows the D.A.’s limitations in chasing down allegations of election fraud, criminal
threats, and intimidation of those who politically oppose a cabal of Latino politicians
who run Bell Gardens and its neighboring cities.
Beltran placed a bull’s-eye on his own chest in June 2006, when he passed out
drunk in a skid row hooker hotel and lied to police about how he lost his wallet, city
badge and cell phone. His conviction for filing a false police report, in March 2007,
was his first, despite a 2004 arrest for attempting to evade police – an
embarrassing incident that ended with him hiding in the bushes in Alhambra.
Even after his wild night on skid row, Beltran wound up on Cooley’s radar only after
a complaint from a fellow councilman that Beltran set up a phone call with a
convicted felon and accused drug trafficker named Shahram Shayesteh that led to
alleged criminal threats. Shayesteh faces trial in the matter; Beltran will not likely be
charged.
The incident raised alarming issues about the stability of Beltran, an enterprising
immigrant from El Salvador who was raised in Mexico and became the protégé of
state Senator Gil Cedillo, later working as a field deputy for state Senator Ron
Calderon.
Cooley’s investigation began with revelations, exposed by CityBeat writer Jeffrey
Anderson last year, that Beltran had met with Shayesteh before awarding him a
lucrative tow truck contract, while also having a business relationship with one of
the tow company’s owners of record, Bahran Madaen. According to Deputy District
Attorney Max Huntsman, additional reports that Beltran had failed to file campaign
disclosure documents in Sacramento led to a subpoena for bank records, which
allegedly show that Beltran stole more than $11,000 in campaign funds to pay his
legal bills in the sad hooker hotel case.
Yet the D.A. was not able to find evidence of provable criminal conduct in Beltran’s
sleazy tow truck company dealings, or in his alleged facilitation of a criminal threat,
despite efforts by LAPD Detective Marcella Winn, who looked deeper into the matter.
Nor can the D.A. do much about more than $100,000 in campaign funds funneled to
some of the state’s most prominent Latino officials – including Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa – by the tow truck company and a sister company in Maywood, which
remains under federal investigation for alleged kickbacks, as Anderson wrote last
fall.
“If I could, would I do it in a minute? Sure,” Huntsman told Anderson last week, of
his desire to probe deeper into the pay-to-play politics in Bell Gardens and its
neighboring cities that bring street elements into city government. “But then we can’t
predict what the future might bring, either.”
Neither Cedillo nor Calderon will talk about Beltran or their longtime support of him.
Last year, in CityBeat, Cedillo all but dared Cooley – and the FBI – to go after
Beltran. Cedillo even came to Bell Gardens pushing an initiative on behalf of
unlicensed immigrant drivers, and stood by Beltran’s side to lend the young
councilman an air of credibility.
In the coming weeks, it will be interesting to see who, besides his lawyers, will
stand beside Beltran and claim he is a good public servant worth saving.
To do that could require one to ignore the following associations, also likely beyond
Cooley’s reach:
Besides Shayesteh, Beltran has ties to other questionable figures. On the night he
passed out in downtown L.A., he was imbibing at the 740 Club, whose owner,
Ralph Verdugo, was run out of Whittier in 2004 for running a nuisance nightclub
called Ibiza, where Beltran was an employee. The 740, which opened on South
Broadway in late 2005, soon became a magnet for gangs and crime, according to
police reports and interviews with law enforcement.
L.A. Councilman José Huizar is no stranger to the place: He called for an abatement
action last year after the club’s questionable reputation surfaced, though he held
fundraisers there.
Lawyer-lobbyist Francisco Leal, who has served as city attorney in a number of
cities, including Huntington Park and Maywood – which always seem to be
attracting attention from federal law enforcers – also sponsored political events at
the 740 with Beltran, who moonlighted at the club while working for a former state
assemblywoman.
Most troubling is that the club’s building permit expediter, Steve Carmona, a former
L.A. planning and public works commissioner, has been indicted for taking a bribe
from accused racketeer and grocery store magnate George Torres, one of L.A.’s
most notorious figures.
Steve Cooley knows all of this. So does the FBI, according to sources close to
ongoing federal investigations in Cudahy, Maywood and Bell Gardens.
The question is, how much of life in that part of the county is a reflection of the
struggles of working class communities with inexperienced leaders? And, how
much is attributable to a cancer growing out of the barrios and into the little city halls
known for corruption and the occasional criminal probe by Steve Cooley?
Bell Gardens, Huntington Park and State Senator Ron Calderon:
The Boston Globe reports on corruption in these cities.
Taco Trucks, Steve Cooley and Corrupt
Politicos in Maywood, Bell Gardens &
Huntington Park; Gangsters in Suits
Editor's note: The following is a report published by the L.A. City Beat on
Thursday May 8, 2008. So, WatchOurCity.com has not been off the mark. The
mainstream media is finally catching up to 4 years of reporting by WatchOurCity.
com, since March of 2004. City Beat's report contains the following catch
phrases which are sure to pique the curiosity of this website's gentle readers,
and the not-so gentle: Corruption, City Attorney for Maywood and Huntington
Park Francisco Leal, State Senators Ron Calderon and Gil Cedillo, ongoing FBI
investigations, criminal indictments, Huntington Park, Mario Beltran, Cudahy.
The Boston Globe notes in a report from December 2, 2006: "Corruption Hits
Cities in L.A.'s Shadows": "A string of gritty suburbs in the shadow of Los Angeles
has produced a growing parade of public officials jailed for corruption, and
prosecutors say illegal schemes on a scale more commonly associated with big
Eastern cities have devoured tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Those
problems have given the area of southeast Los Angeles County at least a whiff
of the rogue politics that became the stuff of legend in New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago. South Gate and other towns including Lynwood, Bell Gardens,
Maywood, Huntington Park and Vernon dot an area that once was blanketed with
cauliflower and berry fields, until it was marketed decades ago as a suburban
refuge where homes were affordable, the weather mild and opportunities rich."
Guess who is the city attorney for those cities? Francisco Leal, who is good
friends with California speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez, and also of
Rosario Marin. Marin's protege slate awarded Leal the lucrative city attorney
contract in Huntington Park in closed-door session and without competing bids.
Marin still lives in Huntington Park and was appointed by the Governor to head
California's Consumer Affairs Division, a $4 Billion dollar State agency. Marin is
state Republican party operative, was a Bush appointee to the U.S. Treasurer's
office, and is the other "brownie" doing a heck of a job ("Brownie, you're doing
a heck of a job").
_________________________________________________________
L.A. City Beat, By Alan Mittelstaedt
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The D.A. man needs your help bringing to justice the “gangsters in suits,” as one
prosecutor describes some of the people who run the corrupt cities southeast of
downtown L.A.
Even if Steve Cooley were firing on all cylinders, he couldn’t do it alone. He’s tried.
He’s in over his head. And, for good and for bad, he is coasting to his third four-year
term in the largely ignored June 3 election. Big Bad Steve should pick up the phone
today and ask the FBI to help him put together a sting operation to target elected
officials he’s heard reams of complaints about over the years.
Wire a straw man in one of the cities – Cudahy, Maywood, Bell Gardens – and see
what trouble you can document. Make it part of a joint county-fed task force.
If Big Bad Steve does it right, Angelenos, who get a bad rap for being apathetic
about issues that really matter, could show as great an interest in public corruption
as they do in a crackdown on taco trucks. Instead, the D.A.’s office announced an
indictment last week that most of the 12 million people in the region probably didn’t
even notice.
Bell Gardens Councilman Mario Beltran faces embezzlement charges after a
yearlong investigation, several weeks of grand jury hearings and testimony from
more than 54 witnesses.
If convicted on all 13 counts – seven felony theft counts, a felony perjury count and
five misdemeanor counts for campaign disclosure violations – Beltran could go to
prison, since he was already on probation for filing a false police report. Even if he’s
acquitted, his career as an elected official, even in the sleazy netherworld of
southeast L.A. County, is likely over. Beltran’s attorney, Jorge Gonzalez, said similar
cases often warrant a “slap on the wrist. It’s clear to us that Mario isn’t being treated
fairly.”
The indictment is remarkable mostly for what is not contained in its eight pages,
considering what the public already knows about Beltran and his associates. It also
shows the D.A.’s limitations in chasing down allegations of election fraud, criminal
threats, and intimidation of those who politically oppose a cabal of Latino politicians
who run Bell Gardens and its neighboring cities.
Beltran placed a bull’s-eye on his own chest in June 2006, when he passed out
drunk in a skid row hooker hotel and lied to police about how he lost his wallet, city
badge and cell phone. His conviction for filing a false police report, in March 2007,
was his first, despite a 2004 arrest for attempting to evade police – an
embarrassing incident that ended with him hiding in the bushes in Alhambra.
Even after his wild night on skid row, Beltran wound up on Cooley’s radar only after
a complaint from a fellow councilman that Beltran set up a phone call with a
convicted felon and accused drug trafficker named Shahram Shayesteh that led to
alleged criminal threats. Shayesteh faces trial in the matter; Beltran will not likely be
charged.
The incident raised alarming issues about the stability of Beltran, an enterprising
immigrant from El Salvador who was raised in Mexico and became the protégé of
state Senator Gil Cedillo, later working as a field deputy for state Senator Ron
Calderon.
Cooley’s investigation began with revelations, exposed by CityBeat writer Jeffrey
Anderson last year, that Beltran had met with Shayesteh before awarding him a
lucrative tow truck contract, while also having a business relationship with one of
the tow company’s owners of record, Bahran Madaen. According to Deputy District
Attorney Max Huntsman, additional reports that Beltran had failed to file campaign
disclosure documents in Sacramento led to a subpoena for bank records, which
allegedly show that Beltran stole more than $11,000 in campaign funds to pay his
legal bills in the sad hooker hotel case.
Yet the D.A. was not able to find evidence of provable criminal conduct in Beltran’s
sleazy tow truck company dealings, or in his alleged facilitation of a criminal threat,
despite efforts by LAPD Detective Marcella Winn, who looked deeper into the matter.
Nor can the D.A. do much about more than $100,000 in campaign funds funneled to
some of the state’s most prominent Latino officials – including Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa – by the tow truck company and a sister company in Maywood, which
remains under federal investigation for alleged kickbacks, as Anderson wrote last
fall.
“If I could, would I do it in a minute? Sure,” Huntsman told Anderson last week, of
his desire to probe deeper into the pay-to-play politics in Bell Gardens and its
neighboring cities that bring street elements into city government. “But then we can’t
predict what the future might bring, either.”
Neither Cedillo nor Calderon will talk about Beltran or their longtime support of him.
Last year, in CityBeat, Cedillo all but dared Cooley – and the FBI – to go after
Beltran. Cedillo even came to Bell Gardens pushing an initiative on behalf of
unlicensed immigrant drivers, and stood by Beltran’s side to lend the young
councilman an air of credibility.
In the coming weeks, it will be interesting to see who, besides his lawyers, will
stand beside Beltran and claim he is a good public servant worth saving.
To do that could require one to ignore the following associations, also likely beyond
Cooley’s reach:
Besides Shayesteh, Beltran has ties to other questionable figures. On the night he
passed out in downtown L.A., he was imbibing at the 740 Club, whose owner,
Ralph Verdugo, was run out of Whittier in 2004 for running a nuisance nightclub
called Ibiza, where Beltran was an employee. The 740, which opened on South
Broadway in late 2005, soon became a magnet for gangs and crime, according to
police reports and interviews with law enforcement.
L.A. Councilman José Huizar is no stranger to the place: He called for an abatement
action last year after the club’s questionable reputation surfaced, though he held
fundraisers there.
Lawyer-lobbyist Francisco Leal, who has served as city attorney in a number of
cities, including Huntington Park and Maywood – which always seem to be
attracting attention from federal law enforcers – also sponsored political events at
the 740 with Beltran, who moonlighted at the club while working for a former state
assemblywoman.
Most troubling is that the club’s building permit expediter, Steve Carmona, a former
L.A. planning and public works commissioner, has been indicted for taking a bribe
from accused racketeer and grocery store magnate George Torres, one of L.A.’s
most notorious figures.
Steve Cooley knows all of this. So does the FBI, according to sources close to
ongoing federal investigations in Cudahy, Maywood and Bell Gardens.
The question is, how much of life in that part of the county is a reflection of the
struggles of working class communities with inexperienced leaders? And, how
much is attributable to a cancer growing out of the barrios and into the little city halls
known for corruption and the occasional criminal probe by Steve Cooley?
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May 12, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Taco Trucks, Steve
Cooley and Corrupt
Politicos in Maywood,
Bell Gardens, and
Huntington Park;
Gansters in Suits
May 3, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
D.A. Indicts Mario
Beltran, Embezzling
Campaign Funds
April 22, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Carson Council Feuds
Over City Attorney.
Francisco Leal: A
political corruption hot
potato
April 7, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Graffiti Removal
Contract Awarded to
Highest, Most
Expensive Bidder,
$110,000 More Than
Low Bidder
March 28, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Senator Feinstein
Questions A.G.'s
Disbanding of L.A.
Public Corruption Unit
While Mukasey Vows
Corruption Crackdown
But Defends L.A.'s
Office Dismantling of
Public Corruption Unit
March 26, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Conspiracy Exposed,
Francisco Leal No
Longer Seeks Lucrative
Carson City Attorney
Contract
March 25, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
City Attorney Francisco
Leal, A Cancer of
Corruption in
Huntington Park,
Maywood, Commerce,
and Now Carson
March 21, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
U.S. Attorney Disbands
L.A. Public Corruption
Unit
March 17, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Latino Taliban Politics
by Villaraigosa & Fabian
March 3, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Mariachi Politics
February 25, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Gay Latino Politicos
Battle for Fabian
Nunez's Assembly Seat
February 14, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
Why Fabian and
Antonio Failed Hillary in
California
February 13, 2008
L.A. Times
Controversial chief in
Maywood steps down
February 4, 2008
WatchOurCity.com
A Note To Fabian
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February 2, 2008
L.A. Times
Convicted cop hired as
Maywood police chief
Steve Cooley,
L.A. County D.A.
L.A. County D.A.
Francisco Leal,
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Mario Beltran, indicted by
D.A.; was Huntington Park
councilman John Noguez's
campaign manager for the
2007 election. One week
after the election, was
convicted for filing a false
police report. Part of his
strategy to help Noguez
win reelection was to make
false claims that his
opponents were criminals.
D.A.; was Huntington Park
councilman John Noguez's
campaign manager for the
2007 election. One week
after the election, was
convicted for filing a false
police report. Part of his
strategy to help Noguez
win reelection was to make
false claims that his
opponents were criminals.
The 740 Club in
Downtown L.A. in the
Historic Core District.
Gangsters and Latino
politicians love to hold
fundraisers here.
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Historic Core District.
Gangsters and Latino
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| La Opinion Spanish Daily Newspaper, January 16, 2006: Mayor Edward Escareno was found guilty and convicted of felony Grand Theft. Edward Escareno was John Noguez' first ever campaign manager during the 2003 election. |
| John Noguez, Huntington Park Councilman, likes to surround himself with political criminals and gangsters in suits. Noguez's 2nd campaign manager, Mario Beltran, was convicted in March 2007 for filing a false police report in a case involving visits to a prostitute in a seedy downtown hotel and later passing out drunk in the hallway. Beltran is now indicted by the D.A.'s office for embezzlement all while on parole for his previous conviction. During the 2007 elections, Noguez and his campaign manager Beltran accused their opponents in political mailers of being criminals. One week after Noguez was reelected, Beltran was convicted in Norwalk Superior Court. |
| Senator Ron Calderon Calderon's Senate District 30 includes much of Southeast Los Angeles County cities such as Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Commerce Montebello, South Gate, Pico Rivera, and also La Mirada, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs and Whittier. Calderon protected Mario Beltran and kept him on his senate staff, even holding fundraisers at home to benefit Beltran's reelection campaign in Bell Gardens, during his trial and after his conviction. Senator Calderon lent his staffer Mario Beltran to run John Noguez's March 2007 reelection campaign. Some accounts note that Beltran worked on the Noguez campaign while on the senate time-clock. But that would be a minor ethical lapse compared to current charges against the good senator's favorite staffer. That pales in comparison to current indictment charges of embezzlement, all done while on parole on a previous conviction from 2007, not to mention that FBI investigation for his dealings with tow truck operators. Senator Ron Calderon hails from Montebello. John Noguez also lived in Montebello even as he held elective office here according to public record evidence. Ron Calderon and his brothers have a long rap sheet in public service going back to the early 80's. The Calderon brothers are legendary with tales of corruption deep and wide in Montebello and surrounding cities. |
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Convicted March
2007, Indicted
May 2008.
Convicted March
2007, Indicted
May 2008.
John Noguez &
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managers.
his two campaign
managers.
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Escareno
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December 2005.
Escareno
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December 2005.
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| Bell Gardens Corruption Watch: Councilman Beltran Embezzlement Charges Mario Beltran is Arrested and Booked on Felony charges Mario Beltran was arrested on felony charges and booked on Friday, May 16, 2008 by the District Attorney's office. The Booking Number is 1431304 (link to L.A. County Sheriff's site). The Bell Gardens councilman and favorite staffer to State Senator Ron Calderon was Huntington Park Councilman John Noguez's campaign Manager. Beltran is also currently under investigation by the FBI. John Noguez's other campaign manager and roommate was convicted in 2005 for Grand theft of public funds. The editor thanks the following for their vigilance and tips: Bell Gardens Corrupt, the Bell Residents Club and City News 90201. |
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