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a steaming pile of government corruption, and it smells like misery and BS
Welcome to proof of public corruption by the Dept. of City Planning
In the case of corruption I uncovered and document here, the City of Los Angeles's Dept. (Ministry) of City Planning and its corrupt employees are responsible for large scale development/environmental fraud involving several projects in the Olympic Park area. My research shows city employees using their positions to commit environmental fraud on behalf of developers. I was so shocked by the level of fraud involved, including by the local neighborhood council, that in late 2019 I determined the issue was dirty enough to need federal attention. I felt it my duty to the people as a former government employee, to expose what I felt was serious corruption.
The question becomes where else have City employees used their positions to commit fraud?
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Last Updated March 2025.
Examples of Corruption
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Fires
Los Angeles suffered through a fire of biblical proportions. People want to blame someone. It was beyond the imagination of what the human mind is capable of thinking.
People are pointing their finger at Karen Bass. Karen is the scapegoat, the problem is the system of LA governance she inherited in which employees have been too afraid to complain of problems, bad policies and bad managers - because they know what happens to those that do.
One woman who lost her house in the Palisades fire was on the local news asking where her taxes were going. I wanted to tell her to benefits, salary and stupid zoom meetings.
Management doesn't like people who complain -- complainers don't get promoted. Councilmembers like managers who tell them yes, even if their ideas don't make sense. Anyone ever asked the council when was the the last time a manager told them no and got promoted? Public employees don't get promoted when they tell elected officials and their managers that their ideas stink.
Did any employee happen to voice concerns about an empty reservoir? Is there an investigation or are emails allowed to be deleted showing who was giving the directive to keep it empty for so long? The media went from saying it was empty since April 2024 to now saying it has been empty for two months prior to the fire.
Most likely, it is old fashioned incompetence and a clear demonstration of what happens when the city is managed by sycophants and is too large and spread out too wide to be able to be governed adequately. The distance between Pacific Palisades to L.A. City hall is about 25 miles. It didn't help that the news announced the winds like a dog whistle. Hopefully what happened wasn't truly nefarious in origin.
The reason Bass was chosen as Mayor is because the people didn't trust Developer Caruso to lead the city.
They didn't trust the development industry that for years have been pushing a homeless industrial complex, is which monies are given to anonymous developers to construct $600,000 + units (using 2019 numbers) paid with loans in which there is no oversight as to how the money is spent. There is a reason the city can't account for 2.5 billion dollars spent on "homeless" programs.
As long as public employees remain too scared to complain, the city can't address the problem of bad managers, their lack of ability to make and implement good decisions, and the system that protects and promotes them to the detriment of public infrastructure, health, and safety.
El Santo Nino de Atoche
The little dude in the banner is Whycantimove.com's symbol devoted to God's purpose of exposing corruption and its cleanup in the City of Los Angeles (and God knows where else). I actually purchased this little fellow at a local botanica in 2021, and thought it a swell gift to our dear Mayor Garcetti, but alas the voices who answer his mansion's intercom didn't want it for some reason . My research goes back to 2018, when I found out a luxury housing development (known as C3) had used a fake environmental exemption, in which City Planning Employee Nick Hendricks (now deceased) had been using his position to commit fraud related to this and several developments along Crenshaw Blvd. in the flood zone.
Policies that stress functionality and safety are placed close to last in the city's #lifegoals - when #1 has been to satisfy unscrupulous developers who pusher unsustainability because he/she/they are continually in need of money to pay off the banks for their failed commercial properties they built or own and now sit empty.
Friends of City Planning are fully aware of the dirty secret that the city tries to hide - that its coffers are in constant need of new sources of tax revenue for overhead, which will never ever ever ever ever be enough money to fulfill the massive amount of debt caused by unsustainable employee salaries, numerous lawsuits, massive pensions, declining infrastructure/fall of Rome, and worker's comp claims.
PSH housing (Permanent Supportive Housing) , under the guise of serving the downtrodden, are built with monies given by the city's property owners in the form of loans (via Prop HHH) to private and anonymous developers who aren't really required to pay it back. The loans are meant to publicly fund the construction of private landlorded apartment buildings which get upwards of 600,000 dollars a unit (2019 numbers) with little if any oversight into how the money is spent on a building they are not legally responsible for, constructs no parking for, has no environmental review for, and collects public funds to give to private landlords for construction and rent.
There is no real oversight in spending and developers are allowed for unlimited inflation increases up the ying yang that would be paid ultimately by forcing greater increases in property taxes on the people who are funding their loans. It's a scheme for developers to figure out a way to pay off their debts for their other projects when they have no way of paying back their lenders besides finding clever ways to yoke the People to pay for it on their behalf.
The city has no tool to hold itself accountable, unless there are people outside the system who can and are willing to challenge it. The reason corruption persists is because to hold government accountable by those inside/behind the veil means serious consequences and pain for public employees who don't play ball and any of der associates. That is why I complained - because it is too dirty and too scary for city employees to do so.
Developers are looking into new business ventures, one of them mimicking the most wealthy of the past - having control of the water supply. The Dept. of Water and Power has known about the low, dangerous levels of the water supply for quite awhile, it from the Grace of God, or the cloud seeding that Los Angeles saw exorbitant amounts of water in early 2023 and 2024. However water controlled and policies set by the wrong hands will quickly dissipate.
The City does not take into consideration cost when awarding HHH funding to anonymous developers. If developers can't sustain their wealth, what better way then to have public give them funds to build liability free apartments at 1 million dollars a pop an apartment and to privatize the water supply so they can control it.
During the last mayoral race, none of the candidates spoke of the water supply, nor did you hear Caruso mention it or how the city gotten itself into another fine mess when Caruso and his friends had/have funded candidates for public office for decades that mold public policy, and have lifers/pain creators in the public service who are at their beck and call. He's pointing the finger at Karen when maybe it should be pointed at himself. If Caruso does mention water, it will be to convince the people that it is a good idea to privatize and abolish public control of water - in the same way the people were convinced with every ad or every other ad several years ago to vote against Prop 10 which would have implemented rent control. It is important that the water supply remain publicly controlled.
Prop HHH, which the people were tricked to vote for, is a legal slick handshake/slight of hand that allows public funds to slip into private pockets more or less anonymously . Caruso stated he would use emergency powers to clear the homeless problem - when it is the fruit of bad decisions decades in the making which he and his friends funded and thus are responsible for.
Why did the city's most powerful developer, Mr. Caruso, want control of the Mayor's office? How many of the city's homeless became homeless because they could no longer afford rent in the city?
What tools does Mr. Caruso have to clean up a biblical style mess when he and his buddies messed it up by their love of power and ambition to begin with? Gee, what can possibly go wrong when the managers with the most power are yes men to elected officials whose policies are commanded by their campaign donors?
The below PDFs detail the situations of development corruption. Because of the length of the submission files, it may be best to start with the following attachments starting with the Murray Mansions email and City Attorney emails. My submissions to the Planning Commission in 2023 were constructed in a hurry, and needed further editing and polishing . Even if I had written it to perfection it would have still been stepped over, ignored, and/or the law changed to make what was previously illegal now legal. I am just one person.
May God Bless you
A summary of the mess at hand
Where else has this happened?
The following four pages summons up five years of my experience that shows the City committing fraud related to several developments in the Olympic Park Area of Los Angeles near Crenshaw Blvd. and Country Club Dr. Employees use their positions to disenfranchise the current community of environmental protection and safety, by forcing them to become a 24 hour a day parking lot for large apartment buildings, often leading to serious plumbing problems for the rest of the community. Ask Palms.
In 2023, I submitted an appeal for 1041-1047 Crenshaw Blvd, the fifth building in the area where I had found funny business. I went to speak to the Planning and Land Use Commission in about September 2023; it felt like the Councilmembers present were more interested in digesting what they ate for lunch than listening to the account of fraud I presented to them. The comments made in response to my presentation by council members and later discourse between staff and committee members/ council members was edited out of the official recording. Shortly after, I attended another council meeting where City Planning staff announced Mr. Hendricks, the City's Senior City Planner's death. No cause was given as to why he died unexpectedly. How many developments did Mr. Hendricks use his position to commit environmental fraud?
My advice for anyone speaking to any committee that doesn't have cameras, make sure you bring along a digital recorder. These recordings are "recorded" live. However, you may find that there may be chunks missing when you go to listen to them on youtube.
Amazingly there was an article in Urbanize LA about this case, but it was summarized so unfairly that it made me realize that its hard for one person to go against the system unless they have a foundation with our Lord Jesus Christ. Just to clarify, I did not accuse the City Council of corruption as the article contended , that accusation is made and documented against the Dept. of City Planning public employees. What I did tell the councilmembers present at the PLUM committee is that the problem with Government is that their employees are too scared to complain because they know what happens to those that do.
This is why corruption goes unabated in LA because there is no safespace to complain without grievous consequences to the complainer.
Below are links to access the hyperlinks I submitted as evidence regarding 1041-1047 S. Crenshaw.
Jamison Services, has purchased five lots between 1025- 1047 S. Crenshaw, and is also planning on putting a 97 unit building between 1025-1035 over three lots. Jamison simply sold off this portion to an LLC they created so they could claim it is not to be one development, which would require more construction hoops.
However, as of March 2025, 1031-1035 Crenshaw has been placed for sale. It is unclear with the tens of millions in loan default on Jamison's other properties, whether the company has the funding to facilitate construction. whatsoever.
More info can be found at https://la.urbanize.city/post/jamison-services-plans-97-apartments-1035-s-crenshaw-boulevard
https://la.urbanize.city/post/jamison-plans-60-apartments-empty-lot-1047-s-crenshaw-boulevard
1041-1047 S. Crenshaw Blvd. 93 ft. 60 units Appeal Accepted
An appeal was accepted for the Director's determination which claims 1041-1047 is CEQA exempt. I submitted four pages on 6/2 and updated it on 6/14 You can search the files at https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/ Under SEARCH type in the Case number 23-0667.
Just the Beginning
The reason corruption festered in LA for so long is because employees were too scared to complain.
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complete submissions to the city
The City previously located the complete submission file for Solaris Apts. at 1141-1145 S. Crenshaw here. https://planning.lacity.org/dcpapi/meetings/document/addtldoc/58508 Because the City has a talent for removing files, I made sure to make copies. According to the City's Determination letter for Domas Development's Solaris Apts, "there is no evidence in the record that the proposed incentives are contrary to state or federal law (F-4)". A total crock of excrement. I am a single person and not a well connected developer - thus my evidence was ignored because there are millions, if not billions of dollars in the Prop HHH development scam. Most of the pages are supporting documents to justify my claims of corruption. The complete file did not include the "day of" submission which I provided to them after the meeting. FYI, The city included a notice of exemption for 150 units. which is located in the CPC 2020 516 submission Pg. 91. Interestingly enough, the topic of the 150 units was never mentioned at Public Hearing by the City Planning Commission for Solaris on June 11, 2020. If this is what they do in this part of the city, what are they doing to where you live?
Abuse of the Neighborhood Council System
When the only letter of support in the physical file for the C3 luxury development comes from the Olympic Park Neighborhood Council (who probably has 20 votes between them, many representing developers anonymously), yet can produce no record of public discussion or vote regarding the project taking place there is something rotten in Olympic Park/Denmark. When I tried to talk about C3 to the Neighborhood Council, I was threatened to be thrown out. Under the current president, in October 2019, the council appointed themselves as qualified to submit community impact statements - statements that represent "public support" for large scale privately owned anonymous developments, when the month previously on 9/9/19 the OPNC had pre-emptively and illegally cancelled the regularly scheduled meeting four hours prior to its scheduled start, after a neighborood of homeowners had been notified by leaflet that their neighborhood was being turned into a garden side parking lot. The meeting was cancelled under full awareness by the then Council President, Herb Wesson. Approximately 40 homeowners turned up to talk to the Neighborhood council. You can read about the situation in the City Attorney email.
Illegal hadid mansion
How much were public employees paid to be bribed?
What else won't these corrupt public employees do. The city rejects the settlement because this isn't the only fraud they are committing, if they accepted a settlement, it would set the precedent for other communities they screwed over, where else have these city planners committed fraud to the benefit of their development buddies, maybe where you live? If the city can do this to the most affluent homeowners, what makes you think they won't t do this to where you are, what then happens to your neighborhood when it is planned through the blender of corruption? God Bless the people willing to finance the fight against City Hall greed and corruption. Your fight helps all homeowners in the city, regardless on income. I'll be praying for you. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8647269/Neighbors-Mohamed-Hadids-notorious-Bel-Air-mega-mansion-furious-city-LA.html
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150 units abutted to a neighborhood of single family homes.
When is this type of development coming to your neighborhood. They approve a project with 43 units, yet produce a notice of exemption for 150 units and the demolition of three residential homes. Even though the Commission received this as evidence during the hearing, they failed to mention the additional 100+ units they planned for the property, which utilized fraud in order to get it developed. What happens when the people of Norton and Bronson come home having worked all day and have to park a half mile from their apartment because the new residents of PSH housing took up the remaining parking. Where are the people in the neighborhood going to park when the only parking available is on a residential street of single family homes?
Notice of Exemption 1141 (pdf)
DownloadCrenshaw Blvd - Solaris Location highlighted in blue
Exhibits
EXHIBIT 1 - 165331 9670 (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 2 - RECEIPT (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 3 - TOC (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 4- TOC EXEMPT (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 4B - ORDINANCE 172081 FULL (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 5 - 172081 PG 13 (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 6- 172081 PG 16 (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 8 - NOTICE OF EXEMPTION MM (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 9 - CCR 15268 (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 10 - MONIQUES SIGNATURE (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 12 - PROP HHH 1141-1145 (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 13 - PROP HHH AMANI (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 15 - FEDERAL FLOOD CODE 60.3 (4) (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 16 - CHANGE CR TO R3 LETTER (pdf)
DownloadEXHIBIT 17 - 65913.4 LANGUAGE (pdf)
DownloadCity Commission teleconference meeting
CPC-2020-516-DB-PSH-SIP- - June 11, 2020 - 8:30am
https://planning.lacity.org/dcpapi/meetings/document/66935
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Below are listed the exhibits related to the Submission CPC 2020 516 DB PSH SIP
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