Ex-city manager sues for $1.5M pay

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Ex-city manager sues for $1.5M pay

By TIM MAK | 11/1/11 9:55 AM EDT

The former city manager of a Los Angeles suburb accused of bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars is now suing the city for his salary and benefits - amounting to $1.5 million.

Robert Rizzo claims that he is owed benefits and wages with interest because he hasn’t been paid since a public meeting in July 2010, reports the AP.

Locals in the small, working-class suburb were infuriated to learn of the $100,000 salaries that City Council members received for meeting once a month, but were even more hostile when they learned that Rizzo earned $787,637 annually, including numerous perks that cost almost $1.5 million a year.

Since then, the city council stopped paying Rizzo his salary and benefits, according to the lawsuit.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67331.html#ixzz1cTCUSEZV

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1. *speechless*

Dude, who do you (city mgr) think you are? An executive of a bailed out mega financial/investment bank?