Just 10 days after the FBI’s #PouGhazi raid on city hall, the city of Palm Springs hired a former Riverside County District Attorney for legal advice.
KESQ reports that attorney Rod Pacheco, best known to Palm Springs residents for his role in the 2009 Warm Sands sex sting, was hired to offer the city legal advice at a discount (?):
The letter says Pacheco’s hourly rate is usually $850 dollars an hour, but the firm agreed to provide a substantial rate adjustment discount charging $425 per hour for his legal services. We have obtained copies of invoices and payments the city has made.. That total as of February 29th, 2016 was just over $9,000 dollars.
$425 an hour seems like a lot of your tax dollars to dole out for a city that will soon be asking for public donations to bring a gigantic Marilyn Monroe statue back to town – which is probably why the new Mayor asked for everyone to be fired on Thursday.
