BRIEFLY.Gil Garcetti Gilbert "Gil" Garcetti (b. August 5, 1941) served as Los Angeles County's 39th District Attorney for two terms, from 1992 until November 7, 2000. Background Gil Garcetti received a bachelor's degree in Management from the University of Southern California and a Juris fined for contribution Ethics Commission In the United States, an Ethics Commission is a commission established by State law to discourage dishonest practices by their public employees and elected officials. Almost all American states have such a commission. President Gil Garcetti was fined $1,000 on Tuesday for what was described as an inadvertent political contribution to the 2005 campaign of his son, council President Eric Garcetti Eric Garcetti (born 1971) is the son of former Los Angeles county district attorney Gil Garcetti, and was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2001. He was reelected in 2005. . Because of the position of the two, the matter was referred to the City Council's Board of Referred Powers to decide the matter. Ethics commissioners are prohibited from contributing to any city election. Commissioner Garcetti said he inadvertently signed the check to his son's campaign when his wife presented it to him. It was among $300,000 in contributions raised by the younger Garcetti in the race, in which he ran unopposed. -- Daily News Vineland Boys jury deliberating The jury in the federal racketeering Traditionally, obtaining or extorting money illegally or carrying on illegal business activities, usually by Organized Crime . A pattern of illegal activity carried out as part of an enterprise that is owned or controlled by those who are engaged in the illegal activity. case against the Vineland Boys street gang began deliberations Tuesday. Lead defendant Rafael Yepiz and eight other alleged members or associates of the Sun Valley-based gang face charges from a 78-count federal indictment that includes violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. trafficking, firearms and money laundering The process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal. Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained gain into seemingly legitimate funds. . During nearly two months of testimony before Judge John F. Walter at U.S. District Court, prosecutors argued that the gang, which also had a large presence in Burbank and North Hollywood, is a sophisticated criminal enterprise with national reach. Defense attorneys disagreed and said some of the defendants were not directly associated with the Vineland Boys. -- Daily News Ex-con charged in fatal beating SAN FERNANDO -- An ex-con who did time for attempted murder was charged Tuesday with using a baseball bat to beat a convenience store clerk to death last week in Chatsworth. Frank Erik Kaatz, 32, is accused in the slaying of Hiran Ediriweera, 41, also known as Rohan Rambukwella, who was found dead at an Arco am/pm store at 20445 Devonshire Blvd. Kaatz is also charged with felony vandalism for allegedly smashing windows and furniture at his parents' Chatsworth home early Friday before going to the nearby minimarket. -- City News Service Group to UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX : admit 300 blacks Responding to a new admissions approach geared at addressing a decline in black enrollment, a group of community leaders said Tuesday that they want UCLA to enroll 300 black freshmen next fall -- a figure three times that of this year's freshman class. A UCLA spokesman had no immediate comment on the call by the black leaders, who call themselves the Alliance for Equal Opportunity in Education. The group says UCLA must admit 300 black freshmen in order to meet federal standards. Since the fall 1998 class, the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). and California State University systems have been barred from considering race as a factor in admissions under Proposition 209. -- City News Service |
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