It may not be rough, but it is justice. Richard Alatorre has been sentenced to serve eight months in the Eagle Rock home his lies bought, and for the sake of whose mortgage he falsified a property lease on his previous dwelling. A longtime crony had re-roofed the house with $13,200 worth of fashionable red tile, apparently in return for Alatorre’s pushing a bum $65 million subway contract, then firing the MTA official who objected. Like the former councilman, this house smells like a pig farm in August. It’s a two-bedroom monument to corruption and the abuse of public trust.Considering Alatorre’s 28-year political career, you might expect more — parklike grounds, soaring ceilings and Old World charm. But Alatorre’s grasp was always weaker than his greed. His unslakable appetite for anonymous cash finally got him in trouble with the IRS, which contends he didn’t pay taxes on $12,970. Yet he was often unable to keep the dinero out of his nose long enough to ensure that he had $20 in the bank, let alone more than a modest little bungalow in a semimodest corner of town.
Source: Richard’s Bracelet | L.A. Weekly