ValleyVote Update for 9-1-00 -
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Published on: 9/1/2000
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Attorney Steven Yagman, who has brought dozens of police misconduct lawsuits against the city and the Police Department, filed the suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court on behalf of city taxpayers including plaintiff Richard Abcarian of Venice.
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"It was the early promise of the City Council that no tax money would be spent on this convention," said Abcarian, a retired English professor.
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The lawsuit describes the plaintiffs, led by Abcarian, as "Los Angeles taxpayers whose tax payments have been used to make an illegal gift, and who have been sold out by their elected representatives and who again will be sold out by them."