L.A. council at last picks a supplier for red-light cameras. Lobbying by the top two bidders was intense, and the city seemed to be in no rush.
November 19, 2005 | Steve Hymon | Times Staff Writer
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Nestor and the second-place finisher — Redflex of Sydney, Australia — both hired big-name lobbyists who had long been familiar with the city’s power corridors.
In Nestor’s corner was Arnie Berghoff, who worked on a monthly retainer that has paid him $54,000 since last year. Redflex hired Ken Spiker Jr., who worked on contingency and stood to receive $100,000 if Redflex won.
The adversaries are friends and share a suite of offices. Berghoff worked for Spiker’s father when the father was the chief legislative analyst for the city in the 1970s and ’80s.
