11 Facts About Rocky Delgadillo

Rocky Delgadillo is the former City Attorney of Los Angeles.

Rocky Delgadillo attended Harvard College, where he won the Robert F Kennedy Award given each year to a member of the varsity football team.

Rocky Delgadillo went on to Columbia Law School, graduating in 1986.

Rocky Delgadillo ran against former Governor and Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown in the 2006 race for the Democratic nomination for state Attorney General of California.

Rocky Delgadillo has sped up the implementation of civil gang injunctions, which largely limit association by gang members in certain defined areas.

One of the most well-publicized prosecutions by Rocky Delgadillo's office was that of entertainer Paul Reubens, more commonly known as Pee Wee Herman, for possession of child pornography.

Rocky Delgadillo's office arranged a plea bargain requiring Reubens to pay a $100 fine and serve three years of probation.

Rocky Delgadillo was criticized for recommending to the Los Angeles City Council that the City pay $2.7 million to black firefighter Tennie Pierce, who alleged he was fed dog food as a firehouse prank and later retaliated against by his fellow firefighters when he complained to superiors.

Rocky Delgadillo argued that the City would likely have been forced to pay even more money to Pierce had the case gone to trial, in addition to legal costs, considering jury verdicts in past cases of a similar nature.

Rocky Delgadillo admitted that his wife had been driving his city-owned vehicle with a suspended license, and that she had damaged the vehicle, which was then repaired at city expense.

Rocky Delgadillo subsequently reimbursed the city for the $1,222 repair bill.