Allegations of Payroll Records’ Scam in Torrance Provokes a Similar Accusation in Culver City

It seems Torrance city employees allegedly were falsifying payroll documents and being paid for working when they weren’t there. This has been a common practice in Culver City for years — and everyone knows about it.
The article said that the City of Torrance discovered this by accident, after City employees questioned why they did not receive the same money as others for doing the same work. The city discovered that payroll records were manipulated so that some people were being paid when they weren’t actually at work. The City of Torrance discovered that this scheme dated back as far as 1999.

This reminds me of my experiences working for the City of Culver City, but with different results.

The first instance of my questioning of why certain individuals received compensated time-off and others did not was in 1997.

I raised this issue before four Police Chiefs, four Chief Administrative Officers, one City Manager and one City Attorney.

The last time I reported this conduct as a city employee was October of 2007 to the City Manager. I was before three Civil Service Commissions on this issue, and all three refused to hear testimony from me about this issue.

After retiring in December of 2007, I filed a claim with the city on this same issue, and it was denied by the City Attorney because of a time statute. I appealed this. I asked that the city waive the time statute, but that also was denied by the City Attorney. To my knowledge, the city has never investigated this issue.
Maybe the City Attorney and the Police Dept. did not know this was a crime. Or maybe they have submitted cases to the Los Angeles County District Attorney and they were rejected for lack of evidence. Maybe somebody in the city should ask some questions.