Six current and former council members in Bell have been offered two-year prison sentences in exchange for pleading guilty and paying back all the money they are alleged to have misappropriated from the city treasury
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The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office confirmed Monday that plea deals were extended but declined to provide specifics.
The two-year prison deals were not extended to the city’s former administrators
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One of the former council members
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Mgdesyan said identical offers were also extended to Mayor Oscar Hernandez
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Disclosures of the plea offers came before the beginning of a preliminary hearing in which a judge will determine whether there is enough evidence to order the former and current city leaders to stand trial for public corruption.
The hearing was scheduled to get underway at 1:30 p.m. but was delayed.
There are to be three separate hearings, one after the other
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The charges were filed after a series of articles by The Times detailing the high salaries of Bell city officials and the activities of Rizzo
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