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Eric Garcetti Owned Clear Channel Stock When He Voted For Digital Billboard Giveaway

Councilman Eric Garcetti long ago conceded that he made a mistake when he voted for a legal settlement that allowed Clear Channel Outdoor and CBS Outdoor to erect 420 digital billboards apiece across the city.The vote was one of the bigger debacles of Garcetti's reign as city council president. Resi ... More >>

Porn's Condom War Gets Infusion of Foreign Cash?

Updated at the bottom: The anti-condom folks say the contribution is "perfectly legal." First posted at 7:03 a.m. Backers of the November ballot initiative that would mandate condoms in porn are questioning the largest financial contributor to the adult business' opposition campaign. That happens ... More >>

L.A. Coliseum Fallout Continues

When John Sandbrook took over the scandal-plagued Coliseum, he found himself in battle with a media-savvy pol.

Kinde Durkee Was Trusted by California's Top Democrats — Until Millions of Dollars Vanished

Treasurer Kinde Durkee Accused Of Using Campaign Funds To Pay For Cosmetics, Mortgages, Mom's Nursing Home

Kinde Durkee​Update: 6:30 p.m.: Sen. Ted Lieu "astounded" by the scale of the alleged crime. Earlier: Durkee appears in court. The L.A. County Democratic Party may also have been victimized. More below. The local political world was roiled over the weekend with the news that Kinde Durkee, a p ... More >>

Jerome Horton's $13,000 Fine: The BOE Tax Man Who Sat on $100,000 Brings Sleaze to California's Board of Equalization

Jerome Horton, BOE, illegally funneled help to a friend and tried to keep $100,000.​Did you hear the one about the sleazy tax man, Jerome Horton, who got caught secretly and illegally funneling money to a friend in Inglewood for a school board race, then had the nerve today to publicly lecture ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa in Deal to Pay $42,000 For Accepting Free Lakers, Oscar Awards Tickets Without Reporting Them as Gifts as Required

Fox 11 NewsVillaraigosa taking in a Lakers game.​The other shoe dropped in the ticket scandal that dogged L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last year. And it was a soft, fluffy ballet slipper. According to the Los Angeles Times, the mayor has agreed to pay $42,000 in fines to settle probes by t ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa ticket scandal: Fair Political Practices Commission orders thousands of California politicians to post freebies on Internet to fight corruption

Now I see the light.​Thanks to Antonio Villaraigosa's practice of ignoring anti-corruption laws, angling for $50,000 to $100,000 in freebies, then failing to tell the City Ethics Commission, the Fair Political Practices Commission has just enacted a strict rule forcing California politicians ... More >>

Villaraigosa's Vanishing Veracity

His executive directive No. 1 in 2005 vowed to halt even the appearance of sleaze and conflicts

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Acceptance Of Sports And Entertainment Tickets Now Subject Of State Investigation

Fox 11 News​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's entertainment-tickets problem just moved to the front row: The state Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating his acceptance of 80 or so tickets for events that included Lakers and Dodgers games as well as the Oscar and Grammy aw ... More >>

Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree

The Los Angeles mayor's usurping of anticorruption rules could spread to pols across California

Just One More Thing

Missing motives in L.A.’s pay-to-play scandal

Jingle All the Way

Cruz is clueless, and Gray rains on Arnold’s parade

Order in the State

The A-list and B-list of gubernatorial hopefuls

Barry Groveman’s Secret

Or, what they don’t know can’t hurt you

Left and Lefter

Well-heeled Willie Brown dispatches challenger Tom Ammiano in San Francisco’s mayor’s race