Delgadillo Wants Mayor to Hahn Over More Funds to Fight Fraud
By Robert Warne - April 23, 2003Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo isn’t happy LA Mayor James Hahn didn’t slice him off an additional $450,000 in the city’s 2003-2004 budget to fight fraud.
Delgadillo said he requested the funds and the Mayor denies it.
Obviously there’s a dichotomy among these opposing forces on how to fight fraud and lower the city’s epic workers’ compensation costs.
Delgadillo wants the money to pay for one new attorney, three investigators and buy surveillance equipment, according to the Daily News.
Hahn though doesn’t want to create new positions in a division that already has a number of budgeted unfilled positions.
"The City of Los Angeles is hemorrhaging millions of dollars in workers' compensations costs. We need to apply a tourniquet now." Delgadillo said in a statement released April 22. "We need to aggressively prosecute those who are gaming the system and forcing the City to raise fees and cut services."
There are more than 19,500 workers' compensation claims against the city, including 4,500 that were filed in 2002 03, according to the City Controller's Office.
Both the mayor and the city attorney share the same concern but don’t agree on how lowering workers’ compensation costs should be executed.
Whether Delgadillo will get the funds to further enhance his newly organized fraud investigation unit that he’s been showcasing over the past year will now be brought before the city counsel.
As this showdown ensues downtown, adjustercom.com plans to touch on some issues that will definitely bring to light that there is more to this matter than meets the eye.
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