Disgraced City Manager Robert Rizzo Ousted From Volunteer Parking Lot Job

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Robert Rizzo Parking Lot: Disgraced City Manager Ousted From Volunteer Parking Lot Job



LOS ANGELES — The ousted former official accused of looting millions of dollars from the small, blue-collar city of Bell is out of another job – as a volunteer parking lot attendant for Huntington Beach's International Surf Museum.

Museum docent Kitty Willis said Robert Rizzo, who lives in Huntington Beach, had been volunteering to earn court-ordered community service hours after a drunken driving arrest last year.

Rizzo, who is charged with 55 counts of looting millions of taxpayer dollars from the city of Bell, is free on $2 million bail in that case. He did not return a call for comment.

Rizzo had been at the museum only a few days when Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez outed him in a sometimes sarcastic column Thursday. The column speculated that if the short, rotund former city manager climbed aboard a surfboard, he would look a lot like "Star Wars" villain Jabba the Hutt cruising the waves.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/robert-rizzo-parking-lot-_n_808901.html

[Richardo]

1. A respectable-looking individual ...

Who would think by looking at him that he's a total sleazebag? :shrug:

[Renew Deal]

2. It is appropriate to have someone convicted of DWI parking cars as community service?

Doesn't sound like the best idea.