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Mayor Tom
Bradley's office that it was proposing to give the property (a branch office and an adjoining parking lot in Farrell's council district) to the city. When Farrell learned of the proposal, he persuaded the bank to donate the properties instead to IAED. Shortly after that gift was completed Farrell claimed he needed a new field office to serve his constituents; he then proceeded to arrange for the city to lease the same former Security Pacific properties from IAED for this purpose. Although Farrell claimed otherwise, several city officials involved in the lease deal said Farrell never disclosed to them that the lease was with his wife's agency. The city paid IAED $ 2000 per month to rent the former bank building and $ 400-a-month for the parking lot. The
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In Feb. 1991, three years after the stories first broke, Reiner's office dropped its investigation. "Farrell's recent announcement that he would not run for his 8th
District council seat in the April 9 election had no bearing on the investigation, said district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons. She
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from South Africa, and he pushed for the city to deny government contracts to corporations that had ongoing businesses in
Apartheid South Africa. Upon the passage of divestiture, Farrell said "This is one where all of us are just doing ourselves and our nation and our city proud." He was subsequently
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In the middle of this controversy, Farrell, joined by local
African-American leaders, held a news conference on the First Street steps of City Hall where he claimed the "attacks" on him were part of a wider, national effort by a white-dominated media to marginalize outspoken African-American leaders
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The first of these stories was published on
December 4. These stories revealed Farrell had arranged for his wife's agency, the Improvement Association of the Eighth District (IAED), to receive a quarter of a million dollar gift of real estate from Security Pacific Bank. The bank originally notified
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investigation also discovered IAED sold the parking lot to a developer shortly after acquiring it from
Security Pacific, and yet IAED continued to receive rent from the city for that property for 21 months after that sale. The day after that story appeared, IAED reimbursed the city $ 8,400 for the
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published a series of stories that alleged
Farrell improperly provided numerous public benefits to a small social service agency controlled by his wife in an apparent attempt to satisfy his alimony obligations to her (during this period Farrell and his wife, Essiebea, were in the middle of their
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Farrell married Willie Mae Reese on
October 30, 1965. They divorced in August 1974. There is one daughter from this union, Mia Ann Farrell. Farrell then married Essiebea L. Hayes and they were separated in April 1984. They divorced in September 1986. There is one daughter from this union, Kongit
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Other public funds went to IAED from the city, including a $ 50,000 federal grant approved by the City
Council; Farrell was chairman of the council's grants committee at the time. Farrell also put two of Essiebea's sisters and his daughter on the City Hall payroll for different periods, and he
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and three other U.S. mayors, he made a trip to Saudi Arabia in 1988, funded by the
Association of Arab-American University Graduates. The trip was briefly controversial when it was erroneously reported that he had not filed the proper financial documents with the city concerning the visit.
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Farrell wrote a proposal for a special property tax that would be levied on South Los Angeles residents to pay for additional police, but after public opposition developed, he changed his mind and said he would no longer work for it, Proposition 7 on the June 1987 ballot.
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declined to say whether Farrell's official actions constituted an appearance of a conflict of interest. ′We make a determination about whether the law has been violated,′ Gibbons said. ′It is up to others to make moral judgments.′"
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At one point, Farrell had to stand and apologize to members of the Southside Serial Killer police task force for questioning whether the "best and the brightest" had been assigned to tracking down the murderer of eighteen women in
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between Vermont and Menlo avenues. He acknowledged that he had received "several thousand dollars" in political contributions from the developers "over the years" but denied that "defenseless homeowners" were being exploited.
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like himself. During this period, a recall effort against Farrell was also ongoing, led by Farrell's own African-American constituents and fueled in part by the many disclosures about Farrell's misconduct in office.
347:" used by the police. But he also waged what was called a "personal war on crime and violence," and he said that "there is more to an anti-crime fight than law enforcement." For example, he called for an
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regime of South Africa in the 1980s, and he used his position to promote those who championed the freedom of Nelson Mandela. Farrell also played a leading role for the city of Los Angeles to
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The councilman stressed the need to improve existing dwellings, rather than to build new housing. "What we can count on is what we can see and what we can touch," he said in 1979.
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Farrell was noted as a liberal who believed in an "active, interventionist role for government." This, it was said, distinguished him from other African-American council members—"
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431:, as threatened by an official, "would produce resentment in America's black communities and would damage Israel's standing in American public opinion." Along with Compton Mayor
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151:(born October 1, 1936) is a politician who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1974 until 1991. Previously, he was a journalist and newspaper publisher.
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291:, and when Mills was appointed as a Superior Court judge in 1974, Farrell was elected to succeed him. In that era (1975), the district "ran in a north-south line in
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on the west, 118th St. on the south, and Arlington and Van Ness on the west." It suffered "some of the worst crime, unemployment and housing problems in the city."
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where convicted youths could earn money to compensate their victims. He thought of a municipal lottery to finance an anti-crime unit, and he advocated closing
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and a delegation of international diplomats and elected officials on a trip to Africa to urge an end to Apartheid.
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to end what he considered racism in the department, and he urged an investigation of the controversial "
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He also helped research and prepare a UCLA report on hard-core unemployment in
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Frank Clifford, "Farrell Seeks CRA Aid for Supporters' Shop Center Project,"
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Glenn Bunting, "Farrell Did File a Report on Mideast Trip, City Clerk Says,"
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Farrell began his journalistic career as a reporter for the black-oriented
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Norman Kempster, "L.A. Official Warns Israel Not to Oust Black Hebrews,"
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Scott Harris, "Farrell Says Staff Shake-Up Is Not Related to Tax Plan,"
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Farrell served for seventeen years altogether, although he did face one
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Beyond the Boundaries: Reverend Jesse Jackson in International Affairs
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Glenn Bunting, "Farrell Failed to Report Free 1986 Trip to Mideast,"
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Arlicekathinia Farrell. Farrell is married to Windy Barnes-Farrell.
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in 1961. He returned to UCLA in 1962, where he studied journalism.
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funneled $ 53,500 of his campaign funds to IAED. Farrell told the
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Frank Clifford, "Farrell Supports Mall Despite Wave of Protest,"
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Glenn F. Bunting, "Gift to City Allegedly Detoured by Farrell,"
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John Schwada, "Farrell Voted Ex-Wife's Agency Over $ 100,000,"
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John Schwada, "Group Tied to Farrell Repays $ 8,400 Rent,"
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rent it had improperly received from the parking lot deal.
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John Schwada, "Agency Farrell Set Up Tied to Rent Scam,"
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Farrell's first involvement in political life was in the
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Henry Weinstein, "Farrell Win Shows Incumbent's Power,"
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John Schwada, "Rent Scandal May Spark Criminal Probe,"
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Sid Bernstein, "Farrell's Drive on Crime Hits Snag,"
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In 1990, he suffered an upset defeat when he lost to
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601:Ted Vollmer, "Drive to Recall Farrell Fails,"
244:Johnson-Humphrey Presidential campaign of 1964
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379:Farrell was a consistent critic of the
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836:Robert Farrell Los Angeles Apartheid.
339:Farrell was insistent in pushing the
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409:fluoridating the city's water supply
812:Stanford, Karin L. (January 1997).
707:"Unions Join Protests of Apartheid"
994:Gladstone, Mark (March 10, 1990).
516:. The seat was previously held by
283:Farrell was employed as deputy to
206:. He was also a correspondent for
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1090:Los Angeles City Council members
1013:Morrison, Patt (May 30, 1992).
635:February 14, 1981, page OC-A-18
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341:Los Angeles Police Department
270:Farrell in 1986 while on the
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969:Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
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942:, December 15, 1987, p. A-1
940:Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
924:Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
650:August 7, 1986, page OC-A-6
557:December 17, 1987, page B-1
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425:African-American immigrants
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1021:. Los Angeles, California.
1002:. Los Angeles, California.
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661:"Unfair Tax" (editorial),
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272:Los Angeles City Council
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882:January 8, 1988, page 1
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355:and other crime-ridden
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137:Los Angeles, California
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258:'s mayoral campaigns.
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203:Los Angeles Sentinel
161:Natchez, Mississippi
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504:State Assembly race
16:American politician
1057:Mark Ridley-Thomas
910:Los Angeles Times,
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183:degree in
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381:Apartheid
310:Positions
279:Elections
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