You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.

This is Handel on the law, marginal legal advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

The city of Santa Monica, which is a city here in Southern California, which everybody knows about.

It was and still probably is the most liberal city in the United States.

It's crazy making the way the politics work.

Well, they're about to file for bankruptcy.

And usually you don't see cities filed for bankruptcy. I mean, it has happened. Stockton, California, filed for bankruptcy. And usually you don't see cities filed for bankruptcy. I mean, it has happened. Stockton,

California, filed for bankruptcy. Orange County here in Southern California filed for bankruptcy.

Utilities, there was a utility up in the state of Washington that had to go bankrupt. So it does

happen. So this has to do with a case

relating to a sexual abuser who worked for the city. The city has already paid out more than

$229 million in settlements relating to sexual abuse by this former Santa Monica police dispatcher. And the city is also facing additional

abuse claims from over 180 other people. Now, this guy worked with boys and girls at a

nonprofit after school department. And here is why the city is writing checks like crazy.

Because according to the story in the L.A. Times,

several former Santa Monica city employees told the police,

they reported this guy's misconduct.

And he still kept working there.

And so the problem is that they're just... and he still kept working there.

And so the problem is that they're just, well, they're going to go bankrupt.

It's that simple.

And that's going to happen more and more because there's less and less money available out there for anything.

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