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Noguez hired Carlos in June of 2011. LCCN has confirmed that Athens trash hauling executive earned $1,000 a month more than longtime Deputy Assessor Eric Haagenson who was hired back in 1972, and $4,000 more than Major Real Property Chief Appraiser Mark McNeil, who was hired in 1987. Haagenson, Carlos, McNeill and Renkei are all contributors to Noguez political campaign accounts.

Carlos immediately began changing the infrastructure of the Assessor’s office and according to several sources turned “the office into a political campaign operation for John’s future political ambitions.”

On February 7th, Carlos fired off an email to every employee to assessor of-fice employees reminding them “wherein Assessor Noguez reminded all personnel to be diligent in valuing property at its fair market value, in accordance to the law, re-gardless of a property owner’s relationship with the Assessor.”

Carlos goes on to state in the email that “in keeping with this directive, if any tax payer representative has communicated expectations of special treatment related to any case with the Assessor’s office, please immediately forward to me the substance of that communication, along with the name of the party and the case number involved, through “your chain of command.”

“Our code of ethics requires the main-tenance of integrity and propriety in all departments’ matters and any behavior that may compromise the ability of the depart-ment to carry out its lawful function will be appropriately addressed,” the memo is signed by Carlos and ends with the note “thank you for your cooperation in the

matter.” Noguez and his office are now in-

volved in at least two active probes by law enforcement officials, including the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office of Public Integrity. Noguez has denied any “wrongdoing” in several press reports in-cluding one in the Los Angeles Times.

Assessor Press Secretary Louis Reyes has refused comment to LCCN about the ongoing developments inside the opera-tion of the Assessor, but lashed out on his personal blog about the critical coverage of this newspaper as being “politically bi-ased.”

“…the Los Angeles County Assessor’s office does not consider the Los Cerritos News a legitimate news source. We have spoke to both the editor and publisher of Los Cerritos News about our concerns of biased reporting and the printing of articles that are based on anonymous comments on confidential personnel matters; miscon-strued statements, and falsely led innuen-dos to the public. The Assessor’s office will no longer speak to the Los Cerritos News given all of our concerns, but wel-comes any other legitimate media outlets to speak on any matters of concern,” Reyes states on his blog. Reyes is also a politi-cal consultant and Regional Director of the California Democratic Party.

On Wednesday, Ramin Salari, the tax agent at the center of a district attorney's probe, fought back against allegations that he wields undue influence over Noguez.

At a tax appeal hearing at the county Hall of Administration regarding a proper-ty in Hermosa Beach, Salari appeared and took direct aim at his detractors and spe-cifically former appraiser David Zoraster. As reported by LCCN Zoraster quit the of-fice in December in protest of Salari's al-leged influence over Noguez and over the appraisal process.

During the hearing on Wednesday, LA Weekly reported that Salari challenged

Zoraster's appraisal methods, and “ap-peared to win over the two-member panel that sits in judgment of tax appeals.”

“At one point, Salari mocked Zoraster as ‘the appraisal God of the office,’ Zoraster is now working for his former employer CB Ellis. LCCN contacted his firm and was told that he would not “be available for media interviews.”

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attempt to intimidate us,” LCCN Pub-lisher Brian Hews said in a statement.

Since then, LCCN has received sev-eral internal memos written by Noguez that specifically tells his employees “not to speak to any type of media without authorization.”

In an interoffice memo dated Febru-ary 9, 2012 at 2:51 p.m. listed as “High Importance,” Noguez directs his entire staff that “All media inquiries related to the department are to be referred to Lou-is Reyes immediately and employees are not to speak to any type of press or me-dia without authorization.”

The internal memo also went on to state to “Please refer to his contact infor-mation: Louis Reyes, Communications Director, Executive Office, Los Angeles County Assessor John R. Noguez, 5000 West Temple Street, Room 320, Los An-geles, CA 90012.”

The memo also lists three different contact numbers for Reyes including his direct line, and cell phone and office fax number. LCCN removed the number in the online version of the memo.

“Thank you for your cooperation in this matter,” said Noguez. The memo was personally signed by Noguez him-self.

LCCN broke the story about the in-

vestigation into Noguez by the LA Coun-ty District Attorney hours before on their website www.loscerritosnews.net and in their print edition one day later.

Doubletree Hotel in Norwalk. BLISS stands for Beatitudes Leading Its Suc-cessful Students. The event will include cocktails, dinner, dancing and silent and live auctions.

Tickets to the BLISS event are $75 per person. Cocktails start at 5:00p.m.and semi-formal attire is required. Tickets can be reserved by contacting the school office at 562-943-3218.

Those not able to attend the event can still offer their support by visiting the BLISS online auction at www.bidding-forgood.com/beatitudes and bid to win vacations and other fun items donated by La Mirada businesses. The online auction ends on March 9, 2012. "The Beatitudes of Our Lord BLISS event will include exciting auction items featuring Lak-ers tickets, Knott's Berry Farm passes, vacation getaways and more." said Mr. Leonard Payette, Principal of Beatitudes of Our Lord School. "

All proceeds will directly benefit our school in continuing to provide our students with higher learning, spiritual and social growth, and maintaining a staff of excellent teachers." With the help of gen-erous attendees and sponsors, last year's 1st annual BLISS event made it possible to purchase new math textbooks for the students.

One of the goals for the 2nd annual BLISS event is to fund new science text-books. For more information about BLISS and Beatitudes of Our Lord School, visit www.bolschool.org.

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