Ex-treasurer blamed for county bankruptcy dies

Published January 17, 2013 5:22pm ET



ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Robert L. Citron, an Orange County treasurer-tax collector whose bad investments forced the county into bankruptcy in 1994, has died. He was 87.

Citron died Wednesday at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange of complications from a heart attack, his wife, Terry Citron, told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/SNLxqP).

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