DA warns Compton that payments to council and mayor are illegal
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office sent a letter to Compton warning officials that the mayor and council members have been illegally boosting their salaries for years by paying themselves for commission meetings that sometimes lasted only about a minute. In some cases, officials were paid “whether or not the commission member attended the meeting,” the prosecutor’s office said in the July 17 letter to the Compton city attorney. Compton officials deny wrongdoing.