From NBC-Los Angeles:

Monday marked the first regularly scheduled City Council meeting in corruption-riddled Bell since eight current and former city officials were charged with looting city funds.

It was a lonely night for the only council member who isn’t facing criminal charges.


“Due to the lack of a quorum, we won’t be able to have our regular meeting today,” Councilman Lorenzo Velez told more than 200 people who attended the meeting.

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