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HP Tow Headquarters prominently displays "vote for
John Noguez" signs. HP Tow is the city's official
Tow company, having received a m
Huntington Park's HP Tow in Bed with
John Noguez
Tow company donated thousands of dollars to Noguez. In turn received million
dollar contracts......and Noguez's assurance that PD would cooperate to tow more
cars.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Editor, WatchOurCity.com

Huntington Park, Ca - HP Tow is the official tow company for the city of
Huntington Park and its Police Department and is the recipient of
lucrative contracts from Huntington Park councilman John Noguez.

Since 2003, HP Tow has given thousands of dollars in campaign
contributions to Noguez's political campaigns as well as donated
thousands more for Noguez's Assessor's campaign.

Noguez is a candidate for the L.A. County Assessor, in a race with John
Wong.

Confidential sources tell WatchOurCity.com that in 2006, Noguez
ordered former Police Chief to tow more cars to benefit the tow
company. The former chief refused and was later fired by city council
action.

Allegedly, Noguez called a meeting in his house attended by the former
PD chief and owner of HP Tow.

Noguez then directed that HP Tow owns Huntington Park and that the
Police Department shall start towing more cars.

When the former PD chief refused to go along with mayor Noguez's
directive, Noguez led city council action to fire the PD chief.

Then mayor Noguez and city attorney Francisco Leal went shopping for
a new PD chief, and nabbed Maywood's chief to take over Huntington
Park's Police Department. The search was conducted without interviews
of other PD chief candidates.

Huntington Park's Police Department is currently taking up 75% of the
city's budget, with a benefits and retirement package that is trending to
bankrupt the city within a handful of years.

In 2005 Noguez led an effort to pass a $23 million dollar bond for
"Safety" measures. In fact the bond was passed to buttress an
unsustainable Police Department retirement burden.  Interest alone on
the $23 million bond is approximately $200,000 per year, compounded.

According to city sources, CalPERS interest on the unmet retirement
burden was at 7%. The city instead opted to issue the bond, justified,
according the Finance Director, by a 4% interest on the bond.

Noguez's campaign manager during the 2007 city council race was the
twice convicted Bell Gardens council member Mario Beltran, who was
caught on FBI wiretap cutting a deal with a tow company worth millions
of dollars. The FBI is still investigating Noguez's campaign manager (see
Jeffrey Anderson's report  Mario Beltran's Undertow, L.A. Weekly, June,
28, 2007).
Tuesday July 13, 2010
Update Wednesday July 14,
2010
The Editor,
WatchOurCity.com
Depriving the Public of
Honest Services: Bell,
Maywood, Huntington
Park, LAUSD
Fiduciary fail by Maywood, Bell,
Huntington Park officials.
Tuesday July 13, 2010
The Editor,
WatchOurCity.com
Huntington Park in $1.2
Million Fiscal Deficit Partly
Caused by City of Bell's
George Cole
Mayor Noguez gave George Cole
millions
Monday, October 4, 2010 6:00 am
WatchOurCity.com
Mayor Noguez in bed with
George Cole: Awards  
Multi-Million Dollar Housing
Redevelopment contract to
Cole, Recently Arrested by
the D.A. & sued by the AG
Huntington Park's
Redevelopment Agency awards
$3.8 million for Fiscal Year
2009-2010 to Cole's Oldtimers.
Monday, September 27, 2010 6:00 am
WatchOurCity.com
Mayor Noguez  
Implicated in Bell
Scandal with Cole
Noguez directed multi-million
dollar contracts to George Cole's
Oldtimers Foundation, shared
convicted felon as campaign
managers with George Cole.
Monday, September 27, 2010,
WatchOurCity.com
Huntington Park's Mayor
John Noguez Shakes down
Charter School for
campaign Contribution in
Exchange for Project
Approval
Mayor John Noguez and City
Attorney Leal called meeting
with Charter school. Noguez is
running for L.A. County Assessor.
September 24, 2010,
WatchOurCity.com
Huntington Park Attorney
Francisco Leal making
$630,000, more than twice
city of L.A.'s Attorney
Mayor John Noguez authorized
payments to Leal, and is good
friend to Bell's George Cole.
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, 6:00 am,
WatchOurCity.com
Supervisor Antonovich
sends formal request to
D.A. to investigate John
Noguez
Antonovich "referred" letter to
the D.A.s' office "for his review
and appropriate action".
Complaint seeks to investigate
Huntington Park mayor John
Noguez based on allegations
that his legal name is John
Rodriguez. Noguez is in a
November runoff race against
John Wong for Assessor.