#city corruption

[serious2020]

Eviction of 300-Person Encampment in California Shows Scorn for Right to Housing - Truthout

The destruction of the camp that was home to over 300 unhoused people in Oakland laid bare the brutality of capitalism. — Read on truthout.org/articles/eviction-of-300-person-encampment-in-california-shows-scorn-for-right-to-housing/

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[ocalapost]

https://www.ocalapost.com/councilman-elect-tyrone-oliver-hires-attorney-following-ocala-city-council-fallout/

Councilman-elect Tyrone Oliver hires attorney following Ocala City Council fallout

Photo; Ocala Post

Ocala -- The Ocala City Council District 2 seat came open in December after councilman-elect, Tyrone Oliver, 63, was disqualified for a felony charge from 1986. The charge came to light after the City Attorney Patrick G. Gilligan brought the information forward right before Oliver was to be

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[newscaller]

College VP suspended after corruption guilty plea | Greg Sandoval

College VP suspended after corruption guilty plea | Greg Sandoval

PE.Com |

Moreno Valley College’s vice president of student services could lose his job and six-figure salary after he pleaded guilty in a public-corruption case in San Diego County.

Gregory R. Sandoval, 60, pleaded guilty Friday, April 4, to one felony count of conspiracy to commit a crime and one misdemeanor count of failing to report gifts received as required by state law, said Tanya Sierra, a…

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Newport Beach agrees to settlement with three former officers

Newport Beach agrees to settlement with three former officers

LATimes |

Newport Beach has agreed to a nearly $1-million settlement with three former officers who claim they were victims of a corrupt and retaliatory police department that passed them over for promotions by using tests designed to favor hand-picked candidates.

Two of the ex-officers said a pair of past police chiefs and a former city administrator engaged in favoritism, and the third said he…

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[noirbynight]

Another portrait of an unidentified member of Kansas City's underworld, 1950.

source: LIFE Magazine