<b>Full coverage:</b> L.A. Coliseum scandal (second page)
L.A. Coliseum under scrutiny
For more than a year, The Times has been reporting on financial irregularities at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, stories that have triggered several criminal and civil inquiries. Three former Coliseum managers, two nationally prominent rave promoters and a stadium contractor have been indicted in the scandal. Commission members | Documents | Arrest photos
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times / March 22, 2012)
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Also named in the lawsuit are the event company Insomniac and former Coliseum events manager Todd DeStefano, who also worked for Insomniac. The victim died of an Ecstasy overdose in 2010.
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The new lease would give the university greater control over the stadium. USC has long sought a master lease in exchange for funding improvements to the aging stadium.
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The councilman and Coliseum commissioner also calls for the firing of the technology manager, who a Times report said directed stadium business to a firm he founded.
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Technology manager Leopold Caudillo Jr. founded a firm that earned $30,000 from the facility, records show. Caudillo denies he currently has a role in the company, although state documents list him as manager.
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USC could block moves to have the new team play at the Coliseum while the stadium is being built.
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In canceling the screenings of ‘Electric Daisy Carnival Experience,’ Regal and AMC theaters cite ‘the incident in Los Angeles’ in which some fans threw rocks and bottles and damaged three police cruisers.
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The head of the facility’s governing commission says he rescinded Ronald Lederkramer’s $25,000 pay increase after L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel raised questions. Greuel is expected to launch a probe into the commission’s finances.
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The public agency not only has paid for luxury cars but also picked up costs for registration, service and personal auto insurance, according to public records.
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Todd DeStefano’s income began growing about the time the Coliseum and Sports Arena slipped into the red, records show.
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The Coliseum Commission can’t keep its promise to USC to make $60 million in renovations at the aging stadium. The university has several options under its contract.
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Computers, documents and other material are taken from residences of former General Manager Patrick Lynch and former events manager Todd DeStefano.
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Todd DeStefano got tens of thousands in payments from firms that used the facility and Sports Arena.
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The president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission acknowledged Tuesday that the commission failed to closely monitor its managers, a statement that comes several months after The Times disclosed that a commission events manager was also employed by a rave company that held events there.
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The 2011 rave was moved to Las Vegas; a girl died after last summer’s event.
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The alleged violations occurred last year during the Electric Daisy Carnival. The neighboring Sports Arena faces a separate accusation over its alcohol license.
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Commission also hires an interim general manager to help find a successor to Patrick Lynch, who quit amid questions over a subordinate’s job with a rave promoter.
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The Electric Daisy Carnival has been ‘postponed,’ its producer says. The two-day event was caught up in a conflict-of-interest scandal even as it faced criticism that it bred drug abuse.
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The Coliseum Commission accepts Patrick Lynch’s resignation. Lynch had authorized his deputy to double as a paid consultant to the producer of last year’s Electric Daisy Carnival.
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Patrick Lynch could find his job in jeopardy due to revelations that he allowed a top aide to work as a paid consultant to a rave promoter even as he was overseeing the Coliseum’s security for the event.
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In addition to being an administrator for the Coliseum Commission and a consultant to the producer of the Electric Daisy Carnival rave, Todd DeStefano hired a lobbyist to persuade the City Council to allow the controversial events to continue.
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Commission president no longer backs return of Electric Daisy Carnival after Coliseum’s events manager is revealed to be working for the rave promoter. Prosecutors and state ethics agency are investigating.
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The administrator who helped plan security also worked for the producer of the Electric Daisy Carnival.
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The educator cites the dangers of the illegal drug Ecstasy, which is commonly associated with the electronic music dance parties.
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The parents of Sasha Rodriguez, 15, accuse L.A. Memorial Coliseum management of failing to ensure safe conditions at last summer’s two-day Electric Daisy Carnival. The girl died of a drug overdose after collapsing at the rave.
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New safety measures were in place at the annual New Year’s Eve event at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
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The bill would also bar the events on private property unless a business owner had a license to host such an event. The sponsor cites drug-related deaths.
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Rather than reinstate a ban on raves, the panel requires 60 days’ notice for approval of an event and pledges safeguards to protect participants.
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Two commissioners say there was no advance notice that such a decision would be made. The panel’s vice president says raves will occur somewhere, and he doesn’t want them to return to back alleys and warehouses.
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Commission member Rick Caruso, who missed the meeting, criticizes the board for withdrawing the ban, which was adopted after a teenager who attended a rave died of an overdose.
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Sixteen people were hospitalized and 40 were arrested at a Halloween-themed rave at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, authorities said Sunday.
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The ingestion of the drug caused Sasha Rodriguez, 15, to lose oxygen to her brain, leading to her death, a doctor says
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A rave at the Los Angeles Sports Arena resulted in 80 arrests and 16 medical calls, according to city police and fire officials.
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Minors will be banned and an onsite team of emergency room doctors required. No new such events will be allowed at the stadium or the Sports Arena in the near future.
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A decision to keep a moratorium on new rave contracts, which was imposed after a suspected drug overdose death at the Electric Daisy Carnival, could be costly to the L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena.
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Officials, doctors and participants acknowledge that Ecstasy use is increasing and particularly widespread during events such as raves.
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The suspected drug overdose death of a 15-year-old girl, Sasha Rodriguez, after a weekend rave causes Coliseum officials to call for a moratorium on raves.
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Officials suspect that the teen, identified as Sasha Rodriguez, died of a drug overdose after attending the Electric Daisy Carnival. Her death renews calls to ban such events from the Coliseum.
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Drug overdoses and injuries send scores of teens and young adults to hospitals after the weekend’s Electric Daisy Carnival.
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The man who died also used heroin after going home, a CDC report says. The document and a rave at the Cow Palace near San Francisco raise questions about holding such events at publicly owned venues.
