Los Angeles Watchdog Group Tracks Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars in City Contracts

I leaned closer to read the raised lettering on the gold foil seal.

The date of the notarization was clearly stamped in the center.

August twelfth.

I stared at the calendar on my wall.

August twelfth of that year was a Sunday.

City offices were closed, and Wayne Ward’s office was always locked on weekends.

A state notary cannot legally execute a seal on continue reading …