Congressman David Dreier (R-San Di-mas, CA) recently

introduced several bills aimed at helping our econ-omy recover, cutting federal spending, securing our bor-ders and protecting our natu-ral resources.

“My top priority is to get our economy going again,” Dreier said. “Help-ing families keep more of their hard-earned money and providing businesses with additional resources to invest in their operations will help create jobs and get our economy back on track.”

Dreier re-introduced the Fair and Simple Tax Act, a comprehensive tax reform plan to simplify the code and reduce the burden on tax-payers. The bill creates an optional one-page tax form with three simple rates of 10, 15 and 30 percent. The bill

also preserves major deduc-tions, including mortgage interest, charitable, state and local taxes, the child tax credit and the personal ex-emption.

Dreier also re-intro-duced his bill to enhance oversight of government programs and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending. The Bi-ennial Budgeting and Ap-propriations Act, establishes a two-year budget cycle to streamline the budget pro-cess and improve the fiscal management of government programs.

“It is critical to our eco-nomic recovery that we rein in the size and scope of gov-ernment,” Dreier said. “Re-forming the federal budget process will allow Congress to better scrutinize federal spending, helping us to cut wasteful and duplicative pro-

grams.” In addition, Dreier

is demonstrating his long-standing commitment to stopping illegal immigration by introducing the Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protec-tion Act, to crack down on the hiring of illegal immi-grants.

“The roots of our bro-ken immigration and em-ployer verification system can be traced to three un-derlying factors: too many unreliable documents, in-cluding the Social Security card; a faulty employment verification system; and lax enforcement,” Dreier said. “Improving the security of the work authorization veri-fication program will help to stop the hiring of illegal im-migrants.”

A huge party was held in honor of The Monrovia Wildcats CIF Mid Valley Championship on Thurs-day evening. It seemed like the whole city turned out to meet and greet their new heroes.

About 1500 people took over Library Park where city dignitaries honored Monrovia High School’s football team for bringing home its first ever CIF-Southern Section championship.

In their 10th finals ap-pearance December, the Wildcats knocked out Whittier Christian with a final score of 38-8.

While players like star Nick Bueno pretended to run off with the CIF Tro-phy by putting it under his sweatshirt, other team mates tried the same…with-out success. The plaque was too big and it was all in good fun anyway.

The excitement of the night was not lost on the players, parents and the cheerleaders when it came time for the playing of the

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A registered sex offend-er convicted of assaulting a 5-year-old girl inside an Ar-cadia bookstore in 2008 and sent to prison in September was killed by his cellmate ac-cording to prison officials.

Jaime Elizondo, 35, of San Gabriel was killed Dec. 20, and his High Desert State Prison cellmate, Steven Cis-neros, 36, is the prime sus-pect.

Elizondo was serving a 30-year-to-life term for lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14 following his Sep-tember 2010 conviction.

Elizondo was convicted of exposing himself to the young victim inside a Bor-ders bookstore at an Arca-dia mall in 2008. The assault was captured on the store’s video system.

San Gabriel Sex Offender Killed by Cellmate

Sierra Madre Police Issue Bulletin for Suspect in EVG Credit Card Fraud

Sierra Madre’s credit card fraud/ Identity theft as-sociated with EVG gas sta-tion and possibly one other business has now caught the attention of the Secret Service in addition to other police agencies. The City of Sierra Madre is utilizing multiple sources in an ef-fort to locate the suspect(s) involved in what is possibly the largest identity fraud case in Sierra Madre’s history.

Mayor Joe Mosca and Sierra Madre Police Chief Diaz spoke at a press confer-ence held at 7am Thursday in front of City and said they are looking for three men in possible connection to the crimes which now amount to over $82,182 in credit card fraud. EVG owner Eug-eny Yakimenko is the prime suspect along with his busi-ness partners whose names Chief Diaz was not at liberty

to disclose.The banks involved

include: Chase (76 victims); Wells Fargo (49); Bank of America (56); Bank of the West (18); American Ex-press (14) and Citibank (9).

According to the re-cords thus far, 78% are Sierra Madre residents. The larg-est loss was $3,782.

The crimes date back to at least June 2010 and au-thorities are asking anyone who may have purchased gas in Sierra Madre at EVG to carefully check their bank records and report ant dis-crepancies.

“I am pleased to an-nounce that the US Se-cret Service has graciously agreed to assign agents to jointly investigate this case with the Sierra Madre Police Department,” Mosca said at

Nick Bueno (l)and Derrin Jenkins, celebrate their teams CIF-Southern Section Mid-Valley Division title, as the team is honored Thursday night, January 6, 2011 in a rally at Library Park in Monrovia s Old Town – Photos by Terry Miller

1500 People Attend Rally and Parade for MHS CIF Champions

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