Sunday, May 25, 2008

Fact or Hollywood Fiction: A local mayor goes to Federal prision after six foot deep FBI investigation

I guess this one must be all over town, because last night, I heard at a party attended by some young Hollywood types that mayor is in a lot of hot water and may not even be able to finish his term by the time it's all over. I guess some investigative bureau at the federal level seems to know where all the bodies are buried, literally. And even though it may be under the frozen meat department of your grocer's freezer, the stench has spread; and some investigators smell it. And they say the scent has stunk up the mayor, too. So if you are trying to remove the scent, and make everything fresh and clean...then you would have to remove the mayor.

This could be the situation that caused Villaraigosa to team up with Clinton. (She wanted his Latino support, and he wanted her to call off the investigation.) But she lost, and the investigation rolls on. I know LA Weekly did a story on this a while ago, but I don't know if there was an investigation at the time. And the party-goer who told this tale says it ends with a prison scene. I hope none of this is true. I hope this person was confused and was telling me a story he heard in a writers meeting instead of the actual mayor.