Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, on trial for racketeering, wrote a smarmy LADBS leadership guide... and we've got it!
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History doesn't repeat, but in Los Angeles sometimes it rhymes something fierce. In the first verse, we've got Chicago émigré Raymond Chandler, the early 20th century downtown oil man who suppressed his literary ambitions while rising in the business world and taking careful note of the public corruption and private depravity that played out among the city's rich and powerful. Later, he'd weave real life scandals into the cases investigated by his detective alter ego Philip Marlowe, and elegantly skewer people who probably deserved it.
Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, on trial for racketeering, wrote a smarmy LADBS leadership guide... and we've got it!
Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan…
Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, on trial for racketeering, wrote a smarmy LADBS leadership guide... and we've got it!
History doesn't repeat, but in Los Angeles sometimes it rhymes something fierce. In the first verse, we've got Chicago émigré Raymond Chandler, the early 20th century downtown oil man who suppressed his literary ambitions while rising in the business world and taking careful note of the public corruption and private depravity that played out among the city's rich and powerful. Later, he'd weave real life scandals into the cases investigated by his detective alter ego Philip Marlowe, and elegantly skewer people who probably deserved it.