Dear Me

Bradford's real home address has been the topic of conversation for some time. Maybe someone in Carson can tell us what's really going on because Gardena City Council is obviously operating under a code of silence.

Ex-Mayor Dear, can you help us out? Since we think your brother lives in Carson, would you mind asking him and get back to us?

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Deal or No Deal?

Anonymous said...
I’m not so concerned about Landsdell working a trash deal in Los Alamitos Were those comments posted by a disgruntled city employee or Gardena city official? Who knows. If Landsdell leaves we‘re still stuck with our city council. Talk about making deals. Look at all the stuff that's gone on with Waste Resources and Phoenix Waste in Gardena. Gardena citizens many not be very vocal but they’re not naïve.

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Waste Resources of Gardena Files Lawsuit to Stop Illegal Interference of Waste Hauling Contract in the City of Gardena

LOS ANGELES, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Resources of Gardena ("WRG") filed a lawsuit today seeking to protect its rights against unlawful interference with its contract and unfair competition in connection with WRG's commercial waste hauling contract with the City of Gardena. The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California in Los Angeles County against Phoenix Waste & Recycling Services ("Phoenix") and its associates, Haig Papaian and Rouben Kandilian, waste haulers who hold the residential waste hauling contract with Gardena. Haig Papaian and Rouben Kandilian, on behalf of Phoenix, made numerous false statements about WRG's performance in order to cause the City to seek an early termination of the commercial waste hauling contract. Further, Haig Papaian and Rouben Kandilian, using improper relationships with City of Gardena officials, sought to force WRG into giving up its substantive rights, and ultimately, to seek an early termination of the WRG's commercial waste hauling contract. WRG is operated by Kosti Shirvanian, who has over 50 years in the waste management business. Until Phoenix's attempts to interfere with its contract, WRG's performance of its commercial waste hauling contract received strong reviews from City of Gardena officials. After Phoenix began to make false statements about WRG's capabilities, WRG began receiving critical reviews of its performance. Further, Phoenix began to use City of Gardena Councilmembers, including Councilmember Oscar Medrano, to force WRG to give up portions of its contract for the benefit of Phoenix. WRG was threatened with retaliatory action if WRG did not comply with Phoenix's demands. Phoenix ultimately caused the issuance of a five year notice of termination against WRG, which would cause WRG to lose substantially all of the investment that WRG made into providing waste hauling services for Phoenix. WRG is represented by Robert Bonner and Maurice M. Suh, lawyers with the international law firm, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. "Spreading misstatements about WRG's performance under the contract and using City of Gardena officials to extract concessions from WRG is simply wrong," said Maurice Suh, who represents WRG. "Waste hauling contracts are of critical importance to the proper functioning of the City of Gardena, and those contracts should be awarded based upon performance and experience, not upon misstatements and political favoritism." "My career has been about providing cost-effective trash hauling services in an efficient and consumer-friendly manner. I have tried to resolve this matter with City officials, I feel like I have been given no choice except to file this lawsuit," said Kosti Shirvanian. SOURCE Waste Resources of Gardena -0- 07/16/2007 /CONTACT: Pearl Piatt of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, +1-213-299-7963, for Waste Resources of Gardena/ CO: Waste Resources of Gardena; WRG; City of Gardena; Phoenix Waste & Recycling Services; Phoenix; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ST: California IN: ENV CHM SU: LAW SS-AB -- LAM145 -- 1895 07/16/2007 16:33 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com

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