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DATE:  MAY 22, 2004

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POWER POLITICS STOPPED BELMONT PROBE

Part 2:  Full Disclosure Network® REVEALS WHY BELMONT WAS NOT PROSECUTED

 

 

Los Angeles,-CA-Pressure from powerful interests and a "lack of courage" on the part of the top managers in the L. A. County District Attorney's office are blamed for preventing prosecutions in the

Belmont High School corruption investigation.

 

Roger Carrick, former Special Legal Counsel to the LAUSD Inspector General told Full Disclosure  "We felt a lot of pressure.  A number of the companies that were under investigation hired public relations firms".."A lot of these large entities did everything they could to create an atmosphere so that it would be difficult for the facts to come out."

 

This part-two of the Carrick interview is set to be web-cast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, world wide on the internet starting Saturday, May 22, 2004 at www.fulldisclosure.net,  FREE on the STREAMING PAGE, as a public service 

 

Carrick, who also served on the D.A. Steve Cooley's Ad Hoc Task Force for the Belmont investigation, describes senior D.A. staff members as constantly arguing back and forth saying "how are we going to take on these big law firms and big interests, millions of documents?"  .

 

The Full Disclosure Network® has been conducting a series of interviews entitled BELMONT: The World's Most Expensive High School".  Cost to date for the unfinished development is $175 Million. The project was financed in 1997 with non-voter approved, tax-exempt bonds known as Certificates of Participation (COPs).  The Los Angeles Unified School Board has already approved an additional $110 million for remediation of environment hazards on the Belmont campus, which was built on top of 1000 closed oil wells and is plagued with methane gas and hydrogen sulfide.  The LAUSD Facilities and Safety committees are holding hearings this month in preparation to complete the controversial project.

 

You can view the entire two-part program on our website at www.fulldisclosure.net via media streaming media.  All of the Belmont related programs are available on the website and are scheduled for broadcast on 40 cable systems over the next six months throughout California.  A channel guide with airtimes is available on the website.

 

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