City Greed At Its Best

The case against the Bell, California 8 goes on and memos between two of the city officials indicate they knew exactly what they were doing as they looted the city treasury:

Bell's assistant city administrator and the city's then-candidate for police chief referred to themselves as “pigs” in an e-mail exchange as they discussed the exorbitant salary being offered the lawman, documents released in court Monday show.

"I am looking forward to seeing you and taking all of Bell's money,” then-Glendale Police Chief Randy Adams wrote in a 2009 e-mail to Asst. Bell City Administrator Angela Spaccia, according to a 19-page memorandum filed by prosecutors in court Monday.

"Okay ... just a share of it!!,” Adams adds, the memo shows.

Spaccia then responds to Adams with another e-mail:

"LOL ... well you can take your share of the pie ... just like us!!! We will all get fat together ... Bob [Rizzo] has an expression he likes to use on occassion ... Pigs get Fat ..... Hogs get slaughtered!!!! So long as we're not Hogs...All is well!?"

The e-mails are contained in a memorandum laying out the prosecution’s case against eight current and former city leaders in Bell, who are accused of misappropriating city money and attempting to cover up their high salaries. [...]

Adams was paid more than $400,000 as the city's police chief, higher than the Los Angeles police chief and the police commissioner in New York City.

And this was for a city with less than 40,000 residents.

Back in the 70's I took a police procedures course from Randy Adams at Goldenwest College.  I guess he hasn't had to teach college courses to supplement his income for quite some time.