Antonio Villaraigosa

L.A. Mayor Accepted At Least $50K In Free Tickets: Reports

Rachel Slajda | June 25, 2010, 11:02AM

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Reports in the L.A. Times and the L.A. Weekly show that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has accepted free tickets to around 80 events over the past five years, worth an estimated $50,000 at least.

Villaraigosa has reportedly accepted free tickets to concerts, award shows and sports games without reporting the vast majority of them. The L.A. Weekly estimated -- using a list of events on the mayor's public schedule -- that the tickets total between $50,000 and $100,000, depending on how many tickets he got for each event.

According to the Weekly, the mayor's office kept no documentation of how much the tickets were worth, how many he got for each event, who they came from or how much he received in related freebies like food and drink.

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