Eric Garcetti – California Globe

Garcetti, China Scandal Exposed, Just Hours Before Ambassador Vote

March 13, 2023 4:16 pmMarch 13, 2023 4:22 pm

Maybe it won’t be Rick Jacobs – Eric Garcetti’s “all hands on dick” political fixer – that will sink the ex-mayor’s quest to be the next ambassador to India after all. It just might be China. More specifically, it might...

Garcetti’s Ambassador to India Vote Expected Tuesday

March 9, 2023 4:34 pmMarch 9, 2023 5:54 pm

In what could be a sign the votes might astonishingly be there to confirm former Los Angles Mayor Eric Garcetti as the next ambassador to India, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer filed for “cloture” on the nomination today. The move...

Garcetti Squeezes Through Committee Vote

March 8, 2023 3:55 pmMarch 8, 2023 4:05 pm

Despite being called “unfit to represent our country” by his own former communications director, erstwhile Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti squeaked through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today and his 600-day-old nomination to become ambassador to India is now headed...

U.S. Supreme Court Turns Down LA County Flavored Tobacco Ban Challenge

February 27, 2023 12:21 pmFebruary 27, 2023 12:21 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday they would not be hearing a final appeal to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. County of Los Angeles, which had challenged a 2020 LA County decision to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco...

Garcetti India Gig Hits Yet Another Iceberg

February 25, 2023 2:47 amFebruary 25, 2023 2:48 am

Just days before he was set to testify for a second time in front of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is now facing yet another hold on his nomination as ambassador to India....

Former Top LA Democratic Fundraiser Dixon Slingerland Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement, Filing False Taxes

January 18, 2023 2:30 amJanuary 17, 2023 9:57 pm

Dixon Slingerland, the former head of the non-profit group Youth Policy Institute Inc. and once one of the top Democratic fundraisers in Los Angeles, pled guilty to embezzlement from the non-profit and filing false tax returns on Tuesday, and is...

Biden Administration to Re-Nominate Eric Garcetti for India Ambassador Post

January 3, 2023 4:47 pmJanuary 3, 2023 4:56 pm

In a move that could be seen as equal parts futile and cruel, the Biden Administration has announced that it plans to re-nominate former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for the Ambassadorship to India. The administration said they have confidence...