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Nuch working day and night to resolve Jackson memorial taxpayer dilemma

By Richard Binder

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has been reviewing the procedures that led the city to spend an estimated $1.4 million for police protection and other city services for the star-studded Michael Jackson's memorial at the Staples Center.  Investigators have apparently turned up evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the raising of money for the event.

The disclosure came amid a public backlash over the taxpayer bill, which included more than $48,000 for sandwiches brought in for police from 70 miles away.

Trutanich later told the Council his office had exchanged correspondence with AEG, the company that owns the Staples Center. Subsidiary AEG Live was the promoter behind Jackson's planned comeback concerts in London.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).