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Published on Monday, May 12, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
Last month, when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposed that the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office make do with a mere 3 percent increase in funding for the next fiscal year, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo hit the roof. Such steep "cuts," his flacks warned, would be devastating. His office would have to lay off some 60 clerks and secretaries, forcing prosecutors to do their own paperwork. As a result, criminals would run free.
The whining paid off. The City Council's Budget and Finance Committee ultimately decided against the mayor's budget plan for the City Attorney's Office.
All of which makes Delgadillo's latest whine - he wants to hire nine private law firms to settle some 300 cases relating to last year's May Day melee, but the mayor won't let him - so preposterous.
Why fully fund a department that tries to skip out on its most basic obligations?
The City Attorney's Office has some 500 lawyers of its own, making it one of the biggest law firms in L.A
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