"Garcetti's Garza Case Costs LA Taxpayers Up To $1.8mm" by Daniel Guss
@TheGussReport on Twitter — Cough up the cash, LA!
Without a word of public debate this morning, LA City Council matter-of-factly agreed to pay Matthew Garza up to $1.8mm to settle his sexual harassment lawsuit from the Eric Garcetti era. The vote was 13-0.
But let’s get real. This $1.8mm was just the settlement. How much more did it cost taxpayers for the years of litigation that led to it?
It is hardly the city’s only dubious Garcetti payout. Like when it paid this column’s $10,528 legal expense as I pursued public records in an unrelated Garcetti matter that allegedly took place at his residence in the wee hours of a recent Valentine’s Day.
Now why would the LAPD not want me to see un-alterable police dispatch records?
Nothing happened…right?
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(Daniel Guss, MBA, is a multi-award-winning journalist. In June ‘23, he won the LA Press Club’s “Online Journalist of the Year” and “Best Activism Journalism” awards. He has been City Editor for the Mayor Sam network, and a featured contributor for CityWatchLA, KFI AM-640, iHeartMedia, 790-KABC, Cumulus Media, KCRW 89.9 FM, KRLA 870 AM, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, Movieline Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Pasadena Star-News, Los Angeles Downtown News and the Los Angeles Times in its sports, opinion, entertainment and Sunday Magazine sections among other publishers.)