EDITORIAL CITY HALL SCOFFLAWS.PRESTIGE Parking Inc. may have cheated the city out of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past three years by not passing on the 10 percent city parking tax collected from customers who use the 31 lots around the city. That's what Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
n. One who reveals wrongdoing within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority: "The Pentagon's most famous whistleblower is . . and a city investigation. He has filed a 310-count misdemeanor misdemeanor, in law, a minor crime, in contrast to a felony. At common law a misdemeanor was a crime other than treason or a felony. Although it might be a grave offense, it did not affect the feudal bond or take away the offender's property. By the 19th cent. complaint against the company, as well as a lawsuit to collect back taxes. Delgadillo said this will send a message to potential scofflaws who would fail to pay taxes to the city. What this case suggests, however, is quite an opposite message. If, as alleged, this level of fraud by such a large company could go undetected for three years and then be caught only after an outside phone call, then there appears to be a phenomenal lack of municipal oversight. That's not the kind of message Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. can afford to send out. The truth is that the real scofflaws are the city officials who aren't doing their jobs. |
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