Montebello: another Bell- type city fraud operation

LA Times links on Montebello City administrators theft of city redevelopment funds


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Here's the reality of Montebello (Bello for short). Bello is a rather dismal forgettable bland burg located 15 miles directly east of LA DWTN. It is sited close to the west bank of the San Gabriel/Rio Hondo River. The oldest sections of the city are likely sited on bluffs & hills overlooking the river flood plain. This is where much of the aging factory/ commercial parks are sited. 1/2 of the city is the largely commercialized/industrialized section south of Olympic/Whittier Blvds. This south leg abuts City of Commerce along the western margin and is largely lower-working/laboring class. This mixed industrail/ residential zone is also heavily populated by recent latino immgrants. Ghettoized East LA jabs bello at it's NW margin, and both cities share the near 100% latinoized Whittier Blvd , which is a major east-west regional LA traffic artery, 100 % third world thoroughfare, and well known for latino/cholo cruising events. There is nothing notewothy in Bello.

Farther north near 60 fwy there are scattered areas of somewhat tidy suburban tract homes on Bello's hills, which are plainly visible as you travel along freeway 60 out of LA Dwtn. There is also a few industrail areas sited off 60 fwy. Bello never has been the Beverly Hills of East/SE LA, as latimes mistakenly attributes to it. It has always been the way it is today. Just another map color zone among a 100 or so map colors on an LA thomas guide map. Another bland faceless LA exurb. Bello does have a large Chinese expat presence, as does much of the region north and west of it, but it also is adjacent to East LA and also close to the grimy LA ghettos which encroach it from the south and east. Much ghetto population outflow issues out of the grimy densely packed 3rd world Alameda Corrider( think Bell, Maywood, South Gate, Compton, ect). These cities contain large numbers of illegals/recent latino immigrants which swarm all over LA inner areas and increasingly into outer exurb areas like Bello.

NOTE: I have delivered many times to exurban Bello hilltop residentail areas. They remind me of Baldwin Hills & Silverlake District. All of them exclusive tidy exurban islands surrounded by grimy dank lowland ghettos like isolated celtic hilltop forts.

l also once delivered to a bello business establishment in a small bello commercial park. It was run by asian immigrant expats, and the operation reeked of a scam. It was some type of off- the- books business dealing with exports/ imports and/or a real estate boilerplate operation ( my recollections somewat hazy here). However, it reeked of a shady business scam as does entire corrupt Montebello city administration.