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HEWS MEDIA GROUP Winner of Fourteen LA Press Club Awards from 2012- 2017. Serving Cerritos and ten other surrounding communities • June 18, 2021 • Vol 35, No. 37 • loscerritosnews.net EXCLUSIVE: Civilian Grand Jury Investigating Metro Execs and Board of Directors' Actions the receipt of the complaint Metro CEO, L.A. and stating a grand jury will County and City Elected investigate the claims. Officials and Supervisors In February of this year are implicated in the HMG-CN first reported that the complaint. L.A. D.A.’s Office of Integrity was investigating Metro CEO Phil Washington and search BY BRIAN HEWS warrants were served on the Los Angeles offices of Metro and Hews Media Group-Cerritos Peace Over Violence. News has received a redacted The wide-ranging complaint dated June 26, 2020 investigation also included Hawaiian Gardens food Bank Helping the Needy by a whistleblower accusing Los a who’s who of high profile Angeles County elected officials, government officials in Los HELPING OUT: The Hawaiian Gardens Food Bank provides residents with free food and clothing that L.A. City elected officials, LA Angeles. they can access every other week. It is funded by the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation, owners of the Metro Board Members and Both the D.A.’s office Bingo Club in Hawaiian Gardens. Executive Leadership of fraud, and Metro’s Communication waste, abuse, and corruption. Department did not deny the The person or persons who existence of an August email did not want to be identified, “it filled out the complaint form from Alan Yochelson , head Filipino Attacked at BY BRIAN HEWS really helps me and my family, received a letter two months later of the D.A.’s Office of Public giving out food and other items in August from a representative Integrity. Knabe Community During the pandemic, the every month to people like us.” of Los Angeles County’s Civil The next day, HMG-CN Hawaiian Gardens Food Bank, The Food Bank also provides Grand Jury acknowledging sponsored by The Irving I. healthy snacks and fresh fruit to See JURY page 2 Regional Park Moskowitz Foundation, owners several after school programs of the Bingo Club in Hawaiian such as the Migrant Program and BY BRIAN HEWS Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare for 3rd Gardens, stepped up its usual the Red Cross Club, while also operation providing free food holding a “Toys and Turkey’s” 70-year-old retired Filipino and fresh produce, and any event for the holidays. Time, Preserving Coverage for Millions health worker and Cerritos other donations available, to low Knowing that low income resident Cesar Echano and his families need other items, , the Congress rendered that provision income families, unemployed, Alito and Trump wife were about to enjoy their disabled, and the homeless Food Bank partners with Macy’s irrelevant in 2017 when it reduced appointee Gorsuch weekly Saturday morning walk in Hawaiian Gardens and and other stores to obtain clothing the penalty to zero. dissent, while in Don Knabe Community surrounding communities. and essential items to distribute. The elimination of the penalty Regional Park, when something Food Bank Manager Leticia “To not have to spend money Kavanaugh and Barret had become the hook that Texas all too familiar occurred. Macias and Purchasing Agent on clothing every month is a real join the majority. and other Republican-led states, As they emerged from their Melisa Halloran became help,” said the resident, “I can as well as the Trump adminis- car, the two were verbally- increasingly busy as the use the money elsewhere, like BY BRIAN HEWS tration, used to attack the entire assaulted by a man in his 20s pandemic spread, serving nearly for my rent.” law. They argued that without who yelled at them to “go back 2,000 families with food every In addition, the Food Bank, For the third time, SCOTUS the mandate, the rest of the law to their country.” month. in collaboration with the with has dismissed a challenge to the See ACA page 2 "I don't know why but he Families receive a bag of ABC School District, holds Obama era health care law, pre- confronted us," Echano said. USDA goods such as rice, citizenship classes for community serving insurance coverage for "He was laughing and asking me beans, pasta, canned vegetables, members who are seeking U.S. millions of Americans. Bellflower Launches what he was looking at. I kept canned fruit, and other items Citizenship. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left my head down and walked away. and are limited to two visits per The program was first the entire law intact yesterday. Redistricting Then he started yelling a lot of month, or every other week. proposed by current ABCUSD They rightly ruled that Texas profanity." The distribution is held outside Trustee Chris Apodaca, who and other Republican-led states Process Fearing that he may be armed, the food bank with distributors represents Hawaiian Gardens, had no right to bring their lawsuit the couple returned back to their practicing proper hygiene and with the classes conducted at the in federal court. car while the abuser continued social distancing. ABC Adult School in Cerritos. The law's major provisions in- BY TAMMYE MCDUFF with his profanity. As he got into But there is many other Management even partnered clude protections for people with his car, the assailant yanked services the Food Bank provides with the American Red Cross to pre-existing health conditions, a The City of Bellflower is open the door where Echano was to area residents and companies distribute smoke alarms to the range of no-cost preventive ser- launching its redistricting pro- sitting and began beating him. that many do not know about. community. vices and the expansion of the cess, with their second of four "I just saw fists," he said. Not only do they provide Running the Food Bank Medicaid program that insures public hearings scheduled to "It happened so quickly. I tried necessary items to families, is Manager Leticia Macias lower-income people, including take place on Monday, June 28 reaching for my phone to take a registered residents can also and Purchasing Agent Melisa those who work in jobs that don't at 7:00 pm, at the start of the picture of him, but I couldn't get obtain a voucher for bread, milk Halloran, they are the face of the Food Bank and provide crucial pay much or provide health insur- regular City Council Meeting to it." or eggs, canned goods, and a experience in operating the ance. held on Zoom. The suspect fled, and the large bag of fresh produce to use wife drove off. organization. Also left in place is the law's Every ten years, local gov- at a local grocery store. A few blocks away, the couple Macias told HMG, “Funding requirement that people have ernments use new data from the “I don’t know what I would for the Hawaiian Gardens Food health insurance or pay a penalty. called the Sheriff's department do if the food bank was not See BELLFLOWER page 2 See ATTACK page 3 there,” said one resident who See FOOD BANK page 3 "Fish Food" Back in Action Picketing for Pay Cerritos HS Out of Playoffs Whitney Student Wins Rep. Cerritos Regional Chamber ABCUSD workers demand Softball team gets runners The Next Big Thing - Faux Fish Linda Sanchez' Art Contest holds in-person event pandemic pay. on but can't cash in. Learn all about plant-based and cell-cultured fish. Page 2. Page 5. Page 5. Page 6. Page 8. 2 LosCerritosNews.net To advertise call 562-407-3873 JUNE 18, 2021 ACA from page 1 U.S. to coverage for all. His giant COVID- 19 relief bill significantly increased subsi- Whitney Student Wins Rep. Linda Sanchez' Art Contest dies for private health plans offered through should fall, too. the ACA's insurance markets, while also And with Trump's crony SCOTUS ma- dangling higher federal payments before jority, opponents of Obamacare hoped they the dozen states that have declined the would finally kill off the law. law's Medicaid expansion. About 1 million But the third time was not the charm, people have signed up with HealthCare. with a majority of the court rebuffing the gov since Biden reopened enrollment amid effort. high levels of COVID cases earlier this Trump's three illegitimate appointees year. to the Supreme Court - Justices Amy Co- The administration says an estimated 31 ney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Ka- million people are covered because of the vanaugh - split their votes... and Moscow law, most through its combination of Med- Mitch was angry. icaid expansion and marketplace plans. Beer-boy Kavanaugh and Stepford But its most popular benefit is protection Wife Amy Barrett joined the majority. for people with pre-existing medical con- Gorsuch was in dissent, signing on to an ditions. They cannot be turned down for opinion from Justice Samuel Alito. coverage on account of health problems, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the or charged a higher premium. While those court that the states and people who filed covered under employer plans already had a federal lawsuit "have failed to show that such protections, "Obamacare" guaranteed they have standing to attack as unconstitu- them for people buying individual poli- tional the Act's minimum essential cover- cies. age provision." Another hugely popular benefit al- In dissent, Alito wrote, "Today's deci- lowed young adults to remain on their par- sion is the third installment in our epic Af- ents' insurance until they turn 26. fordable Care Act trilogy, and it follows the For Medicare recipients, "Obamacare" same pattern as installments one and two.

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