![FILE - This March 9, 2011 file image shows former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo listens in court in Los Angeles. Rizzo, who masterminded a corruption scheme that paid exorbitant salaries to FILE - This March 9, 2011 file image shows former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo listens in court in Los Angeles. Rizzo, who masterminded a corruption scheme that paid exorbitant salaries to](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2p538rn/file-this-march-9-2011-file-image-shows-former-bell-city-administrator-robert-rizzo-listens-in-court-in-los-angeles-rizzo-who-masterminded-a-corruption-scheme-that-paid-exorbitant-salaries-to-city-officials-pleaded-no-contest-thursday-oct-3-2013-to-all-69-charges-brought-against-him-ap-photoirfan-khan-pool-file-2p538rn.jpg)
FILE - This March 9, 2011 file image shows former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo listens in court in Los Angeles. Rizzo, who masterminded a corruption scheme that paid exorbitant salaries to
![Attorney James Spertus, right, representing Robert Rizzo, former city manager of Bell, Calif., second right, makes his closing arguments before Judge Henry J. Hall in a preliminary hearing to determine whether Rizzo Attorney James Spertus, right, representing Robert Rizzo, former city manager of Bell, Calif., second right, makes his closing arguments before Judge Henry J. Hall in a preliminary hearing to determine whether Rizzo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2P78K5D/attorney-james-spertus-right-representing-robert-rizzo-former-city-manager-of-bell-calif-second-right-makes-his-closing-arguments-before-judge-henry-j-hall-in-a-preliminary-hearing-to-determine-whether-rizzo-should-stand-trial-on-dozens-of-charges-of-bilking-the-blue-collar-suburb-out-of-more-than-55-million-also-at-the-hearing-are-from-left-bell-mayor-oscar-hernandez-former-council-member-luis-artiga-and-former-assistant-city-administrator-angela-spaccia-ap-photoirfan-khan-pool-2P78K5D.jpg)
Attorney James Spertus, right, representing Robert Rizzo, former city manager of Bell, Calif., second right, makes his closing arguments before Judge Henry J. Hall in a preliminary hearing to determine whether Rizzo
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