Bell California Corruption Scandal Summary

In the Bell California corruption scandal, this involved misappropriated funds. This was a story that hurt the citizens of Bell, California because the city officials took upon themselves to give themselves raises without the knowledge of its citizens of Bell California where there were 36,000 residents and one in four residents was below the poverty line. There were city officials who paid themselves inflated salaries of up to 100,000 dollars per year.

A former powerful city manager Robert Rizzo was the one who established the scandal that rocked Bell California. It was discovered by the city auditor ad prosecutors that Robert Rizzo had funded his and other salaries. He put together a scheme to mastermind to deceive the treasury out of an