Corrupt Cooley is friends with City of Bell Adams - NO arrest

Cooley's friend Adams was not one of the eight in the Bell arrests. His Bell retirement would be the third-richest in the state's huge pension system. and you ask why was he not arrested then? hmmm... supposedly he's an "aquaintance" of Corrupt Cooley's.

Hey Steve Cooley: Time To Take A Closer Look At Former Bell Police Randy Adams And His Shady Pension

The L.A. Times reports that former Bell police chief Randy Adams, who quit in July when it was revealed he was making nearly $500,000 per year, is quite the physical fitness buff, despite claiming a disability.

The whole story raises more questions about why L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley, who is running for Attorney General as a Republican, didn't bag Adams with the rest of the Bell Eight, the public officials arrested last month in the Bell salary scandal.

Here's the key graf:

Last year, when he signed on as chief in Bell, Adams struck a deal with Robert Rizzo, who was Bell's city administrator at the time. In that agreement, he was declared disabled the same day that he was hired. Under the arrangement, the 59-year-old Adams would receive a lifetime disability benefit whenever he decided to retire, meaning he would not have to pay taxes on half of his $400,000-plus annual pension. His Bell retirement would be the third-richest in the state's huge pension system.

So, what was his disability?

A workers' compensation claim that Adams filed in 2003 says that he twisted his back that year while packing up his office as Simi Valley police chief to take the same position in Glendale. The claim says the box-lifting mishap compounded "cumulative" job-related back injuries and that he later had surgery.

So packing up boxes at one job to go to another, he twisted his back. Right.

Except that he claimed no disability:

In Glendale, Adams applied for and was granted a less lucrative retirement and claimed no disability. Glendale City Manager Jim Starbird has told The Times that Adams had recovered from the back surgery seven years ago and was not disabled.

Then, years later, he joins Bell's laughable city government and is suddenly disabled, which ensures some tax-free pension benefits, what with twisting his back moving boxes years before and all.

In between, to help his "back injury," he'd taken up quite a fitness regimen, having participated in "spinning classes and posting an impressive time in a 5K race, the Glendale Downtown Dash."

(What kind of self-respecting police chief is in spinning classes anyway?)

Adams had also applied to be Orange County sheriff and noted on his application that he enjoys skiing and had participated in the 120-mile Baker to Las Vegas Relay run.

Randy Adams, man of mystery, off skiing the Alps and doing the Baker to Vegas relay run and taking spinning classes.

Here's Adams' attorney: "You mean you can't jog and be disabled?"

What? What? You can't have a back injury and jog? What?

We're not orthopedists around here, but it seems to us that skiing and running on unforgiving blacktop might not be good activities for a bad back.

So...Where is Steve Cooley? Cooley, who calls himself an "acquaintance" of Adams, isn't prosecuting Adams like the other Bell Eight who are accused of -- more or less -- stealing Bell taxpayer dollars to enrich themselves.

Well, Adams didn't steal money from Bell taxpayers. He merely twisted his back moving some boxes when he left Simi Valley to become the Glendale Police Chief. In Glendale, he recovered from surgery and claimed no disability. Then, years later, he went to Bell, where he suddenly claimed disability again, which would allow him to collect half of his more than $400,000 per year pension tax-free.

Yes, nothing to see here.

Article HERE.

Comments

[Manny]

What disgraced Ex-Bell Police Chief Randy Adams is doing is what has been done in the CalPERS Retirement System for many years. It is a term called “Spiking” one’s salary toward the end of one’s retirement.

It appears that Adams taking the Bell Police Chief position came after much forethought and planning to see how he could maximize his retirement. Adams, prior to being hired by the City of Bell drove around the city and surveyed it for months before accepting the job. Adams’ emails to Spaccia show a deliberate plan to hide his inflated salary. Spaccia told Adams during the drafting of his contract not to specify the number of annual pay periods so that his $457,000 salary would not draw attention. Is this deliberate? Yes! Also Adman’s was to be paid under two different titles. It seems Adams keeps digging a deeper and deeper hole for himself.

The injuries Adams is claiming may of come from a range of on duty incidents but usually an officer that is on the promotional fast track to police chief spend a minimal amount of time on the patrol battle field. If a person is running 5k races, skiing, taking rigorous spinning classes and patrolling while police chief, then I can safely concluded the police chief is not disable. This person may have some physical limitations but from my standpoint those limitations appear to be mental due to the political nightmare he got involved in the City of Bell.

Officers with disabilities are not allowed to patrol and are removed from duty because those officers pose a liability to the city and its residents. These officers may not be able to respond in a stressful or emergency situation due to their limitations in turn posing a public hazard.

The injuries Adams was or is claiming are injuries everyone will experience and they are from none other than “father time.” Loss of range of motion in arms, lower back pains, sore ankles, bothersome wrist and the onset of arthritis belong to father time himself. I don’t believe Adams injuries are from him chasing bad guys in a suit he stopped chasing bad guys many, many years ago.

It is a sad day for law enforcement when a Chief of Police is caught with his hands in the cookie jar and by all indications it is more that a petty theft.

In closing it is an unfortunate way for a distinguished lawman to end his career or maybe it is the sum and consequences of Adams’ decisions and actions during the successive phases of his existence in regards to his destiny or fate that finally caught up with him. “KARMA” has no friends it is all our own doing.