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Outrage over Spending by Public Housing Officials
The LA City housing scandal involves rampant misspending of taxpayer money, reported by.KCET last March. Controller Wendy Greuel didn't start her audit until August.
By Warren Olney • • 53m ListenThe LA City housing scandal involves rampant misspending of taxpayer money, first reported by KCET public television last March. Controller Wendy Greuel, a candidate for Mayor, didn't start her audit until August. We hear from her and her predecessor, Laura Chick, who says Greuel waited too long. Also, should counties charge convicted inmates for living expenses when they're sentenced to jail? On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, has an Arab Spring arrived during the Russian winter?
Banner image: Screen grab of ousted LA Housing Authority Chief Rudolph Montiel from KCET's SoCal Connected feature on HACLA
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3 storiesWas City Controller Wendy Greuel Slow to Check Out a Scandal?
SoCal Connected on KCET has added a third report to its ongoing series on HACLA . That's the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, which spends a billion dollars in mostly federal money each year, supposedly to help find homes for people who need them.
Read the story20 minRiverside Jail Inmates Pay to Stay
The Riverside County Counsel told the Board of Supervisors that most convicted criminals don't have jobs or assets of any kind. Nevertheless, the Board agreed to join several other counties in charging feels to convicts for time spent in county jail. Phil Willon reports for the Los Angeles Times .
Read the story7 minHas the 'Arab Spring' Come to the Russian Winter?
Russian authorities did not clamp down on massive protests in all that country's nine time zones over the weekend, despite repeated shouts of Vladimir "Putin is a thief" and "Russia without Putin."
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