Courts/Rulings & Lawsuits

Ex-LAFD chief files legal claim against city accusing mayor of ‘misinformation campaign’

Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley has field a legal claim against the city that accuses Mayor Karen Bass of an "orchestrated campaign of misinformation, defamation and retaliation" during and after the deadly January wildfire in Pacific Palisades. Crowley was ousted in February as chief, but remained with the department at a lower rank, following public spat with the mayor as tensions rose over the response to the the Palisades Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history.

NBC4

Board denies parole for Erik Menendez despite reduced sentence for parents' 1989 murders

Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday after serving decades in prison for murdering his parents with his older brother in 1989. A panel of California commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again, in a case that continues to fascinate the public. A parole hearing for his brother Lyle Menendez, who is held at the same prison in San Diego, is scheduled for Friday morning. 

Associated Press

Lyle Menendez denied parole, will remain in prison along with younger brother Erik

A day after his younger brother was denied release, Lyle Menendez also saw California parole officials reject his bid for freedom, ruling he will remain behind bars for now for the 1989 shotgun murders of his parents. The parole board grilled Menendez, 57, over his efforts to get witnesses to lie during his trials, the lavish shopping sprees he and his brother Erik, 54, took after their parents’ killings, and whether he felt relief after the murders.

Los Angeles Times

DOJ sues California to end enforcement of emissions standards for trucks

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday it has sued California in a bid to end the state’s enforcement of emissions standards for trucks. The DOJ said it filed two complaints this week in federal courts against the California Air Resources Board on the state’s enforcement of preempted emissions standards through its so-called “Clean Truck Partnership” with heavy-duty truck and engine manufacturers.

Reuters

Newsmax pays $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies

Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax $67 million. To avert a high-stakes trial, the right-wing cable channel has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $27 million this month and another $40 million in the next two years. The settlement deal was struck last week and disclosed in a Newsmax financial filing on Monday. “We are pleased to have settled this matter,” a Dominion spokesperson told CNN, declining to comment further.

CNN

C.A. reinstates action over council member’s disclosures

Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal has reinstated a lawsuit filed against an Ojai councilwoman and her lawyer over the public disclosure of information gleaned from closed sessions with the city attorney relating to a civil action filed against the municipality concerning a real estate development project, saying that a trial judge improperly granted an anti-SLAPP motion after determining that the public interest exception does not apply.

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Court kills California's one-gun-a-month law

What if you were only allowed to make one purchase of printers, signs, or gear for podcasts per month? Would you consider that fully respectful of your free speech rights? Or would you view it as an attempt to muffle people's natural right to speak out - and perhaps a hint of more restrictions to come? California has something similar in the form of a law that limits people to buy one gun per month.

Reason

FTC sues LA Fitness for making it difficult for consumers to cancel gym memberships

The Federal Trade Commission today sued the operators of LA Fitness and other gyms over allegations they make it exceedingly difficult for consumers to cancel their gym memberships and related services that continued indefinitely unless cancelled. The agency is seeking a court order prohibiting the allegedly unfair conduct and money back for consumers harmed by the difficulty in cancelling memberships.

FTC News Release

Ninth Circuit judges disagree over ‘propensity evidence’

A divided panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that two recorded jail calls, made in September 2020, in which the defendant expressed his surprise at being federally prosecuted by saying that he only “sells drugs” to “five” or “six” people were properly admitted, without a limiting instruction, during a trial at which he was accused of possessing heroin and methamphetamine on July 2, 2020 with an intent to distribute the narcotics.

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Superior Court of Los Angeles County launches text message alerts for cases in collections starting in September

Beginning September 1, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County will implement a new text message alert system to notify individuals with delinquent (past-due) unpaid court balances that have been referred to collections related to their criminal, traffic, family law, dependency, and civil matters, as well as juror sanctions.

L.A. Superior Court News Release

Lawsuit related to Hunter Biden’s laptop to proceed

The Court of Appeal for this district held yesterday that the man who has served as lawyer/benefactor to Hunter Biden may proceed against a political activist on causes of action for criminal impersonation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, but not on his claims for civil harassment and “doxing.”

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Judge orders Beverly Hills to process 19-story Builder's Remedy development

A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ruled that Beverly Hills must process a proposed Builder's Remedy high-rise just south of Wilshire Boulevard. The project in question, proposed by Leo Pustilnikov to replace a parking lot at 125 S. Linden Drive, calls for the construction of a 19-story, approximately 200-foot-tall building featuring 165 apartments - 20 percent of which would be rented to lower income households - and a 73-room hotel.

Urbanize Los Angeles

Former employee settles harassment suit against Burbank studio

A former employee at a Burbank-based production studio has settled a lawsuit in which she alleged she was forced to quit due to a supervisor’s inappropriate comments, including “sexually fetishizing” Korean women like her. Olivia Cordell filed the Los Angeles Superior Court complaint against Gen Z Studios LLC, alleging gender discrimination and harassment, wrongful constructive termination, whistleblower retaliation, failure to prevent discrimination, harassment and retaliation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

City News Service

CA Supreme Court refuses to review decade-old case involving off-duty LAPD officer convicted of rape

The California Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a now-former Los Angeles police officer convicted of raping a woman while he was off-duty about a decade ago. The state’s highest court on Wednesday denied a defense petition asking it to review the case of William Alexander Rodriguez. Rodriguez, now 39, is serving a six-year prison term for the Aug. 16, 2015, attack on the then-25-year-old woman.

MyNewsLA

Judge considers NCAA, USC, Pac 12 exit from Reggie Bush suit

Indicating he is poised to find that Reggie Bush’s claims against the NCAA, USC and Pac-12 Conference are time-barred, a judge said Friday that before issuing a final ruling he will ponder the organizations’ bids to have all causes of action dismissed against them in a lawsuit in which the former USC running back alleges he is owed money for the use of his name, image, and likeness.

MyNewsLA

San Diego can’t duck claims police still target man years after exoneration

A federal judge largely rejected the city of San Diego's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit by a man who spent eight years in prison before being cleared of conspiracy to commit murder charges and now says police have targeted him since. U.S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia, found that Nicholas Hoskins sufficiently claimed violations of his Fourth Amendment rights, including unreasonable search and seizure, excessive force and deliberate fabrication of evidence by San Diego Police Department officers.

Courthouse News Service

Federal judge certifies nationwide Alexa privacy class action against Amazon

A federal judge has certified a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Amazon over its Alexa voice assistant, allowing millions of registered users to pursue claims that the company unlawfully collected and retained voice data. The decision, issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle in July 2025, represents one of the most expansive privacy cases to date involving voice-enabled devices.

Reuters

Family farm wins historic case after feds violate constitution and ruin business

It ranks as a monumental injustice and ruin of an American family. Seizing on a paperwork violation and over $500,000 in fines, Department of Labor (DOL) agents hounded a fourth-generation farm into collapse, trapping brothers Joe and Russell Marino in nine years of bureaucratic hell. Denied access to an outside court or jury, the Marinos were subjected to an in-house agency process from pillar to post.

Farm Journal

Gascon chief of staff sues LACo over termination

Former District Attorney George Gascon’s chief of staff sued Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman and another prosecutor Wednesday, alleging she was demoted for her support of Gascon’s reform policies and because of her race, age and gender. Former Deputy District Attorney Tiffiny Blacknell, who is Black, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the county, Hochman and Deputy District Attorney John Lewin. The latter previously filed and settled his own lawsuit against the county in which he maintained he suffered a backlash over his criticisms of Gascon’s reforms.

City News Service

Money for L.A. County voting machines ended up in bribery 'slush fund,' feds allege

An election technology firm allegedly overbilled Los Angeles County for voting machines used during the 2020 election and funneled the extra cash into a “slush fund” for bribing government officials, federal prosecutors say in a criminal case against three company executives. Smartmatic, a U.K.-based voting system company, had bribery embedded as part of its business model, prosecutors allege in a Florida federal corruption case against company co-founder Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez and two other company officials.

Los Angeles Times

DA files response to Menendez habeas corpus petition

In a 132-page response, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman formally laid out his case opposing a new trial for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez. The brothers have been in prison for over three decades for the murder of their parents in 1989. At their second trial following a hung verdict, a jury found them guilty of first-degree murder with special circumstances. They were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. 

Beverly Hills Courier

Inmate charged with strangling wife to death during overnight prison visit

A California man serving life in prison for four murders has been charged with killing his wife during an overnight family visit. On Wednesday (August 13), 55-year-old David Brinson was charged with murder in connection with the November 2024 death of Stephanie Dianne Dowells at Mule Creek State Prison, per PEOPLE. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said Brinson called prison officials just after 2 a.m. to report that his wife had passed out during an overnight family visit.

Black Information Network

DA Hochman says "enough is enough" on Los Angeles street takeovers, pleads for harsher penalties for attendees

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman says he wants the Board of Supervisors to "keep ratcheting up the penalties" for participants in dangerous street takeovers. During a news conference on Monday, Hochman said that "enough is enough" when it comes to the takeovers, which he claimed is an increasingly growing problem in the county.

KCAL News

HelloFresh to pay $7.5M in subscription renewal case filed by CART prosecutors

Meal kit delivery service HelloFresh will pay $7.5 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit alleging violations of California’s Automatic Renewal Law, with the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office playing a role in the enforcement, officials announced. The lawsuit, filed by the California Automatic Renewal Task Force, which includes the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office alongside district attorneys from Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties, claimed HelloFresh failed to clearly disclose subscription terms, obtain proper consumer consent, or provide an easy cancellation process for its auto-renewing plans.

Santa Monica Mirror

At least 71 people faced criminal charges after LA protests over ICE raids

The Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office and the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office charged at least 71 people with crimes allegedly committed during recent protests against federal immigration enforcement. LA Public Press analyzed 52 cases corresponding to charges against 62 people. All but one person pleaded not guilty at the start of their cases. Many could see their lives upended because of the charges. 

Los Angeles Public Press

Federal grand jury charges Pico Rivera man with impeding immigration officers arresting illegal alien in parking lot

A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Pico Rivera man with impeding immigration officers from conducting enforcement actions in the parking lot of a Pico Rivera shopping center in June. Adrian Andrew Martinez, 20, is charged with one count of conspiracy to impede a federal officer, a felony that carries a statutory maximum sentence of six years in federal prison. Martinez’s arraignment is scheduled for Thursday in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles.

U.S. Attorney’s Office News Release

Policy/Legal/Politics

City officials want to fund immigration defense. The budget crisis makes it hard

Days after the Trump administration’s mass immigration raids came to Los Angeles, City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado started looking for money to help the city’s undocumented residents. In a June 10 motion, she asked City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo to detail options for finding at least $1 million for RepresentLA, which provides legal services for undocumented Angelenos facing deportation.

Los Angeles Times

Man shot in Sacramento drive-by last week dies; sheriff decries state's mental health law that freed suspect

A man who was severely injured in a drive-by shooting last week in Sacramento has died of his injuries, authorities said Monday, with the county sheriff criticizing a California mental health law that allowed the suspect to be freed following prior convictions. The shooting happened on August 12 at about 12:15 p.m. in the area of Morse Avenue and Lerwick Way, just north of Edison Avenue in Northeast Sacramento.

CBS13 Sacramento

LA Council calls for new policy to identify masked immigration agents

In response to aggressive and widespread federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, the City Council Tuesday called for a policy that would require LA police to verify the identity of masked federal agents when requested by an individual targeted in an enforcement action. In a 13-0 vote, the City Council approved a motion introduced on July 1 by Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez and Councilman Bob Blumenfield calling for such a policy.

City News Service

States accuse feds of tying crime victim funding to deportation compliance

A coalition of 21 state attorneys general sued the Trump administration on Monday, claiming the Department of Justice is trying to “strong-arm” them into complying with mass deportations by dangling federal funding for the Victims of Crime Act over their heads. In a 50-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in Rhode Island, the states accuse the Justice Department of illegally attaching this new condition to the funding, which is designed to provide services to violent crime survivors.

Courthouse News Service

California Republicans sue to stop Newsom, Democrats from pushing redistricting plan

California Republicans are urging the state's Supreme Court to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats from quickly moving forward with their push to redraw congressional districts to add up to five left-leaning seats in the heavily blue state. Four GOP state lawmakers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in California's Supreme Court to stop the Democrat-dominated state legislature from holding a vote by the end of this week to advance the redistricting push.

Fox News

Governor Newsom’s office reminds Bondi of ethical obligations for U.S. Department of Justice lawyers

Reaffirming the state’s values and ongoing commitment to protect Californians, Governor Gavin Newsom’s office responded to the federal government’s threats regarding the state’s laws related to law enforcement cooperation with immigration enforcement and reminded U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi of the ethical obligations for U.S. Department of Justice (US DOJ) lawyers. 

Governor Gavin Newsom News Release

The CPSC and Amazon: Navigating a shifting regulatory landscape

Despite recent leadership and other changes at the agency, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (the “CPSC” or “Commission”) has maintained its focus on regulating e-commerce platforms that facilitate large-volume imports from foreign manufacturers directly to U.S. consumers. On July 29, 2024, and January 16, 2025, the CPSC advanced this priority by issuing orders classifying Amazon - the largest e-marketplace - as a “distributor” under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA). 

The National Law Review

Southern California

County jail system achieves compliance milestone in inmate processing

Los Angeles County has reached a milestone in Rutherford v. Luna, maintaining six months of compliance with court-ordered improvements to the Inmate Reception Center at the county jail system, officials announced. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) and the Department of Health Services’ Correctional Health Services, in collaboration with the Chief Executive Office DOJ Compliance Office, have reduced wait times and enhanced medical and mental health screenings for inmates entering the jail system. 

Palisades News

How an LAPD internal affairs detective became known as 'The Grim Reaper’

In a police department with a long tradition of colorful nicknames - from "Jigsaw John" to "Captain Hollywood" - LAPD Sgt. Joseph Lloyd stands out. "The Grim Reaper.” At least that’s what some on the force have taken to calling the veteran Internal Affairs detective, usually out of earshot. According to officers who have found themselves under investigation by Lloyd, he seems to relish the moniker and takes pleasure in ending careers, even if it means twisting facts and ignoring evidence.

Los Angeles Times

Huntington Beach police deploying drones in an effort to improve response times

The Huntington Beach Police Department is using drones in an effort to improve the agency's response times to crime scenes and calls for service, with police officials describing the program as a game changer for law-enforcement and the residents of Huntington Beach. The drones are reactive, not proactive, meaning the unmanned aerial vehicles won't be flying around for surveillance purposes. They are only deployed after a call for service, according to the Police Department.

ABC7

How downtown Los Angeles became a boarded-up ghost-town with hoards of drug-smoking vagrants and dozens of shuttered storefronts 

Downtown in the City of Angels is looking more and more like a ghost town. The famed Los Angeles neighborhood has become a shadow of its former glory - with rows of boarded-up shops, chain stores leaving in droves and hordes of drug-using vagrants sparking major safety concerns for shoppers and business owners alike. The Post can reveal that there are more than 100 vacant storefronts in the area’s Historic Core, which was the rip-roaring heart of the downtown shopping and entertainment district.

New York Post

Fewer than 120 officers left supervising LA County’s 21,800 probationers

Los Angeles County now has fewer than 120 probation officers left to supervise nearly 22,000 probationers as a result of the redeployment of most of its officers to the county’s troubled juvenile hall and a controversial policy decision to force others with medical restrictions to stay at home. In an effort to offset the dwindled workforce, the county has signed an agreement with L.A. Impact, a regional law enforcement task force focused on drug traffickers and gangs, to use police officers from around the county to conduct home visits and compliance checks traditionally handled by the Probation Department.

Pasadena Star News

George Floyd protester hit by LA County deputy's rubber bullet wins $3.5 million

A jury has awarded $3.5 million to a man who sued Los Angeles County alleging he was struck and injured by a rubber bullet fired by a sheriff's deputy during a Fairfax District protest after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. Cellin Gluck and his daughter, Caroline Gluck, were among thousands of protesters present in the area on May 30, 2020. They maintained they were trying to help another protester hit by a bean bag when Cellin Gluck was hit by the projectile.

City News Service

Public Safety

Los Angeles police arrest Montebello man in $4.5 million cargo theft bust

Los Angeles police raided a small hardware chain and recovered $4.5 million worth of stolen merchandise, including power tools from Milwaukee, DeWalt and Makita. Detectives served search warrants at two locations connected to DJ General Tool and Wire on Aug. 14 and Aug. 19. They arrested Dojoon Park, 41, for receiving stolen property, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

KCAL News

Suspect arrested in UCLA hate-crime investigation over stolen Black history posters

UCLA police arrested a suspect on burglary and weapons allegations, with a hate-crime enhancement, after posters honoring Black figures were stolen from a campus building, the department said Sunday. Officers took the individual into custody inside Haines Hall, which houses the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies Library and Media Center. In a statement on Twitter, the department said the case is tied to similar incidents under investigation since February 2025.

Westside Today

Is crime rising in San Bernardino County? What the latest data shows

It's not your imagination. Crime got worse in San Bernardino County last year, according to California Department of Justice data. The DOJ released it's 2024 crime statics data last month. And while the agency reported statewide decreases in almost all categories of both violent and property crimes, the opposite was documented in San Bernardino County, which saw significant increases in almost all categories.

Victorville Daily Press

CHP’s stealthy new SUVs are coming after reckless California drivers

They’re coming for you, California. And you aren’t gonna see them coming. They’re the California Highway Patrol and they’re riding in spiffy new SUVs that don’t look like your daddy’s cop car. The CHP deployed 100 new Dodge Durangos a little more than three months ago. They’re designed to escape easy detection. Gone is authoritarian black-and-white; replaced by a dreamy, civilian-style color palette. The SUVs also aren’t outfitted like standard patrol cars.

Los Angeles Times

California will move forward with redistricting vote to counter Texas, Newsom says

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that he is moving forward with putting proposed new congressional maps for the state on the ballot in a Nov. 4 special election in an attempt to counter mid-decade redistricting being pushed by Republicans in Texas. "I know they say 'Don't mess with Texas.' Well, don't mess with the great Golden State," Newsom said at a news conference, flanked by Democratic members of Congress and California union leaders.

ABC News

How crews of 'burglary tourist' Chilean master criminals are invading U.S. to plunder star athletes' mansions during games

Law enforcement officials are classifying the suspects as part of a sophisticated network of Chilean "burglary tourists" - young thieves who fly in under the U.S. visa waiver scheme, time their heists to athletes' game schedules, and target sprawling, secluded properties. They allegedly struck at least six other sports stars in late 2024, including Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis Jr., Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Radar Online

ICE drops nearly $1 million on truck upgrades to attract recruits 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent nearly $1 million on flashy truck upgrades as the Trump administration pushes to recruit 10,000 new agents. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE showcased the tricked-out vehicles in a series of social media posts, panning over large vinyl decals that included “Defend the Homeland.” On the back window, the trucks displayed a “President Donald J. Trump” sticker. 

Courthouse News Service

California invested millions in STEM for women. The results are disappointing

Ten years ago, it seemed everyone was talking about women in science. As the economy improved in the years after the Great Recession, women were slower to return to the workforce, causing alarm, especially in vital fields like computing. State and federal leaders turned their attention to women in science, technology, engineering and math, known by the acronym STEM. Over the next few years, they poured millions of dollars into increasing the number of women pursuing STEM degrees.

SF Gate 

Attempted murder at men’s prison low-profiled by CDCR

An attempted murder of a correctional cook by an inmate at the California Institution for Men in Chino (CIM) that took place Aug. 10 was announced by Warden Eric Mejia during the citizens advisory committee meeting Tuesday morning but kept low-key by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Mr. Mejia told the committee, which meets bi-monthly at the Chaffey College Chino Community Center, that a supervising cook received face and neck lacerations while escorting an inmate at 1:15 p.m. to a freezer in the kitchen in Facility A to retrieve ice for the housing units.

Chino Valley Champion

Convictions/Pleas/Sentences/Parole

'Ketamine Queen' to plead guilty in Matthew Perry's death, officials say

A California woman known as the “Ketamine Queen” has agreed to plead guilty to federal drug charges in connection with Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose two years ago. Jasveen Sangha, 42, will plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

NBC News

Second defendant in Beverly Hills tourist robbery returns to court for sentencing

The second of two South American nationals linked to the armed robbery of a $1 million emerald-encrusted watch from a tourist sitting on the patio of a restaurant at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel is expected to be sentenced Monday. Jesus Eduardo Padron Rojas, 19, of Venezuela pleaded guilty in March in downtown Los Angeles to one count of interference with commerce by robbery - known as a federal Hobbs Act crime, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

MyNewsLA

Orange County music exec gets 4 years for working with cartel-tied concert promoter

A Huntington Beach man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for working with a concert promoter in Mexico with ties to drug cartels. José Ángel Del Villar, 45, the CEO of Del Records and its related talent agency Del Entertainment Inc., was sentenced Friday to a jail term and fined $2 million, the United States Department of Justice said in a news release.

KTLA

Fontana man pleads guilty to armed robbery of Southern California pharmacies

A 39-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a crew that robbed pharmacies across the Southland, stealing cash and narcotics at the point of a gun. Aaron Carter of Fontana entered his plea in L.A. federal court to counts of interference with commerce by robbery and using a firearm in a crime of violence, court papers show. He was the last of four defendants to plead guilty in the case. Sentencing was set for Nov. 20.

MyNewsLA

Why Candace Owens won’t stop her “transvestigations”

One doesn’t need to have expensive legal counsel to know that, if someone is suing you for defamation, it’s unwise to keep repeating the lie in public. The “just keep saying it” strategy did not serve Donald Trump well when a jury awarded his victim, E. Jean Carroll, $83 million in damages in her second defamation trial - $78 million more that she won in her first trial. Fox News channels kept airing lies suggesting Dominion Voting Systems stole the 2020 presidential election for weeks after the company warned them to cut it out.

Salon

Text messages reveal how hard Fox News 'worked' for Trump in 2020: court documents

New court documents reveal Fox News’ most prominent on-air news personalities made clear their desire to help President Donald Trump win the 2020 presidential election, according to The New York Times. A $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation by voting technology company Smartmatic upended a tranche of documents on Tuesday showing Fox personalities Jeanine Pirro, Jesse Watters and Maria Bartiromo were determined to help Trump. 

Alternet

Los Angeles now has to appease Trump’s ego as prep for the Olympics continues

The 2028 Olympics will open in Los Angeles in exactly three years, and the planning for the Games is racing alongside their politics. The planning is going better, but the politics are getting harder. The executive board of the International Olympic Committee checked off on Los Angeles’ sweeping venue plan in April, giving its stamp of approval to an effort that will unfold across the region: surfing in San Clemente, skateboarding and BMX racing in the San Fernando Valley, cricket in Pomona and baseball, of course, in Dodger Stadium. 

CalMatters