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leaders and their cronies. Beginning with Leonis, continuing through his grandson, and to this day, crony ism and corruption became embedded in Vernons DNA. Vernon has been described as the mo st corrupt five square miles in California. 1. To maintain their power and the ssociated riches, Vernons rul ing elite rarely held elections. The electorate was comprised of just hundred-odd residents, most of whom were incumbent City Council members, their family members, and city workers payed at inflated rates. The City owned the available res idential property and subsidize the rent. Outsiders who sought to take up residence in Vernon and un for city office were intimi dated or worse. 2. Meanwhile, City leaders only pret ended to live in the City itse lf, which the New York Times has described as bleak, 5.2-square-mile sprawl of warehouses, factories, toxic chemical plants and meat processors that looks like the backdro for Eraserhead. Leonis was forced to resign after being indi cted for voter fraud because lived in 7,0-square foot Italianate mansion in the Ha ncock Park neighborhood of Los Ange les. The mansion, like the City, stayed in the family. Decades later, Leoniss successor and gr andson Leonis . Malburg was convicted of the same offense. 2. Over the years, many other Vernon enior officials have been in dicted, convicted or pled guilty to (among other things ) voter fraud, misappropriati on of funds, and conflicts-of-interest for employing friends and famil at City jobs paying exorbitant salaries. 2. The corruption and dysfunction id not go unnoticed by state la wmakers, who have repeatedly pushed to disincorpor ate the City. As long ago as 1 9, then-governor Pat Brown proposed eliminating the City. 2, then-speaker of the Ca lifornia State Assembly John Perez introduced bill that would disi ncorporate all cities in Calif ornia with fewer han 1 residentsa category limited to Vernon. 2. Vernon launched