CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 12, 1993 | JEFFREY L. RABIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
At a recent campaign event, Los Angeles City Council candidate John B. Handal II had a ready solution to the budget crisis at City Hall: "Start running this city as a business again." Presumably, he was not suggesting his own business as a model. It has been more than two years since Handal and his Brentwood restaurant, San Gennaro Inc., filed for bankruptcy, leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts including federal and state taxes and city utility bills. Documents filed in U.S.