From Fox News:
A former employee of Bell, Calif., which made headlines for paying
enormous salaries to a slew of officials who now face criminal charges,
is suing the city for $837,000 in unused vacation and sick time.
Eric Eggena, who was director of general services in the small Los
Angeles suburb, was paid as much as $421,000 a year in total
compensation after starting at just $90,000 in 2002, according to the
Los Angeles Times. Although he was not among the eight city officials
who were arrested in a criminal probe, he was fired when the scandal
broke.
"His name came up a lot during our investigation, and he certainly
received a suspiciously high salary," Deputy District Attorney Max
Huntsman told the Los Angeles Times.
Eggena wants to paid for 329 unused sick and vacation days.
The case, which made the city of 35,000 a poster child for
public-sector pay packages run amok, came to light in a Times
investigation in July 2010. Two months later, the state Attorney General
sued eight current and former employees over the excessive salaries,
and subsequently brought criminal charges. The mayor and all council
members have since resigned or been driven from office.
The city paid the biggest compensation package -- $1.5 million per
year -- to Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo. Former Police
Chief Randy Adams had a salary of $457,000 a year, and he has also sued
the city for severance pay. Rizzo, his chief assistant, Angela Spaccia,
and five former City Council members face felony corruption charges for
allegedly looting the city to pay for their astronomical salaries and
generous retirement benefits, which the council approved.
While Bell CA. is an example of corrupt government, there are still government employees who still like raping the taxpayers with their outrageous salaries. An example would be firefighters in the Clark County Fire Department a couple of years ago with the overtime pay scandal. The pay of some police officers are also way above normal here in the Valley. The fact is, in the Las Vegas Valley, we have some of the highest paid public paid employees n the country, Bell, CA not included. And Clark County teachers are also underpaid compared to other cities.(I am a CCSD teacher)
So, this former Bell, CA. still has the mindset of a government employee of take, take, take and nothing much in return.
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