Los Angeles, May 30, 2012. FOX 11 News Anchorman Jeff Michael today interviewed 'Joe Friday' the pseudonymous blogger behind the Los Angeles Dragnet. The interview was prompted by the Dragnet's video entitled "The Lies of Carmen Trutanich," an edited version of City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's 2009 campaign ad where he claimed to have been the victim of an assassination attempt when surrounded and shot at by gang members in South Central's Green Meadows Park. LA TImes reporter Jack Leonard found that there was no evidence whatsoever to support either Trutanich or his 'investigator' Jim Bell's claims about the assassination attempt. The LAPD had no record of any radio calls or police reports. The DA's office could not find Trutanich's personnel files, but as for Jim Bell, they noted that Trutanich had written a commendation for Bell, but never once mentioned the assassination attempt nor Bell's claim to have saved Trutantich's life. The scandal over Trutanich's lies about the claimed assassination attempt is believed to have driven Trutanich into hiding from the media in the final week before the primary election. Michael stated that he had reached out to Trutanich to come back on FOX 11 to defend his reputation, but that Trutanich claimed he was unable to do so as he had partially suspended his campaign due to his mother's hospitalization. 'How convenient that is' was the comment from Friday, who opined that the reason for Trutanich's sudden media shyness had more to do ...

• published: 31 May 2012
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• author: Joe Friday