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Compton mayor says municipal law division has opened formal review after residents accuse council credit-card misuse
Summary
Residents at the Dec. 2 Compton City Council meeting accused elected officials of misusing city credit cards; Mayor Sharief announced the municipal law division has initiated a formal review and said details are limited while the investigation proceeds.
Mayor Sharief told the Dec. 2 City Council meeting that the municipal law division has initiated a formal review of the city's credit- and program-credit-card program after residents raised multiple allegations of misuse.
The mayor said the review "will be conducted thoroughly, impartially and guided solely by the facts, applicable policies and law," and added that because the matter is "active and legally sensitive, we are limited in what we can share publicly." City services, she said, will continue without interruption.
The announcement followed a string of public comments in which residents called for audits or legal action. A speaker identifying herself as Missy asked the council to "file a formal complaint regarding possible misuse of the city credit card by the council member Andre Spicer," and requested an internal audit of card transactions, receipts and approvals. Missy cited Penal Code 424 (misappropriation of public funds), AB 1234 (ethics training) and Government Code 1090 (conflict of interest) and said she was submitting a public-records request for receipts.
Other residents made similar demands. Fidel Marquez said, "I demand our council take action or there's going to be some recalls," and Gilda raised a separate allegation that a person named Mark Pucket had a city credit card with $8,968.54 in charges despite not working for the city in 2025.
Council members did not record a formal disciplinary action or complete audit at the meeting. Instead, council members and staff said they would hold a special meeting to address the concerns; meeting details and timing were to be polled among members. The mayor's memo described an internal legal review but did not name any individuals under investigation.
What happens next: the municipal law division review is under way and the council indicated it will schedule a special meeting to consider next steps; the transcript records requests from residents for an internal audit and for credit card statements to be produced, but the transcript does not show those records being produced at the meeting.
Ending
The council did not vote on personnel actions or impose sanctions during the public session. Mayor Sharief's statement and residents' public complaints were the principal developments on the credit-card issue at the Dec. 2 meeting.
