Alfred Robles Villalobos

RAE FRANKLIN JAMES Housing and planning * Born: Aug. 21, 1942 * Residence: View Park * Education: University of California Berkeley, bachelor of arts; graduate studies in public finance at Cal State Hayward. * Career highlights: Legislative analyst for city of Los Angeles since 1989; has worked for the city for 10 years in various jobs. * Family: Not available. MICHAEL F.

Five months into his job as Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's chief deputy in charge of economic development, Alfred R. Villalobos has resigned, the mayor's office said Wednesday. Villalobos, 50, has been under pressure after stories in The Times detailed episodes from his checkered career as a private financial consultant.

Five months into his job as Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's chief deputy in charge of economic development, Alfred R. Villalobos has resigned, the mayor's office said Wednesday. Villalobos, 50, has been under pressure after stories in The Times detailed episodes from his checkered career as a private financial consultant.

The head of a federally funded economic development agency here pleaded guilty to a bribery charge in 1991 for soliciting and accepting thousands of dollars from three men, including Alfred R. Villalobos, who is now Los Angeles deputy mayor for economic development. Villalobos, the only one of the group not to be charged with a crime, was performing consulting work for the agency at the time, according to documents on file in U.S. District Court here.

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan on Tuesday appointed the last of his five deputy mayors, three more than served under his predecessor, but top aides vowed that he still will wind up with a leaner staff than Tom Bradley's Administration.

Over a New Year's weekend of gambling, Los Angeles' new deputy mayor for economic development, Alfred R. Villalobos, rolled up debts of $30,000 that took a Lake Tahoe casino 2 1/2 years and a lawsuit to collect, court records show. In a civil lawsuit settled last summer, Caesars Tahoe said Villalobos wrote $30,000 in counter checks--blank checks provided by casinos to customers who have established a credit record--to cover gaming debts incurred over the last two days of December, 1989.

The man appointed by Mayor Richard Riordan to make Los Angeles more business-friendly has himself had a checkered business career, marked by a personal bankruptcy and the complaints of people who say he took advantage of them financially. Alfred R. Villalobos, the city's deputy mayor for economic development, was repeatedly sued by creditors until he declared personal bankruptcy in 1982.

The head of a federally funded economic development agency here pleaded guilty to a bribery charge in 1991 for soliciting and accepting thousands of dollars from three men, including Alfred R. Villalobos, who is now Los Angeles deputy mayor for economic development. Villalobos, the only one of the group not to be charged with a crime, was performing consulting work for the agency at the time, according to documents on file in U.S. District Court here.

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said Monday that he is untroubled by disclosures that his deputy mayor for economic development, Alfred R. Villalobos, has had a troubled career in private business. Riordan said Villalobos' career--marked by a personal bankruptcy and the complaints of people who say he took advantage of them financially--makes him well-suited to talk knowledgeably to other business people as a representative of the mayor's office.

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said Monday that he is untroubled by disclosures that his deputy mayor for economic development, Alfred R. Villalobos, has had a troubled career in private business. Riordan said Villalobos' career--marked by a personal bankruptcy and the complaints of people who say he took advantage of them financially--makes him well-suited to talk knowledgeably to other business people as a representative of the mayor's office.

The man appointed by Mayor Richard Riordan to make Los Angeles more business-friendly has himself had a checkered business career, marked by a personal bankruptcy and the complaints of people who say he took advantage of them financially. Alfred R. Villalobos, the city's deputy mayor for economic development, was repeatedly sued by creditors until he declared personal bankruptcy in 1982.

Over a New Year's weekend of gambling, Los Angeles' new deputy mayor for economic development, Alfred R. Villalobos, rolled up debts of $30,000 that took a Lake Tahoe casino 2 1/2 years and a lawsuit to collect, court records show. In a civil lawsuit settled last summer, Caesars Tahoe said Villalobos wrote $30,000 in counter checks--blank checks provided by casinos to customers who have established a credit record--to cover gaming debts incurred over the last two days of December, 1989.

RAE FRANKLIN JAMES Housing and planning * Born: Aug. 21, 1942 * Residence: View Park * Education: University of California Berkeley, bachelor of arts; graduate studies in public finance at Cal State Hayward. * Career highlights: Legislative analyst for city of Los Angeles since 1989; has worked for the city for 10 years in various jobs. * Family: Not available. MICHAEL F.

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan on Tuesday appointed the last of his five deputy mayors, three more than served under his predecessor, but top aides vowed that he still will wind up with a leaner staff than Tom Bradley's Administration.