[3] A Los Angeles County grand jury in 1917 accused him as a City Council member of misconduct in office in connection with property transactions in the area where Union Station (Los Angeles) was eventually built.

[4] According to the Los Angeles Times, the councilman, from the Seventh Ward, was alleged "to have realized a profit of more than $50,000 by securing options on property within the terminal site, before the owners were aware of the proposed improvement."

He was also said to have received a check of "several thousand dollars" from attorney Isadore Dockweiler, who represented the terminal company.

[4] Betkouski ran for reelection in 1917, placing 15th in a field of eighteen candidates, of whom only the first nine were successful in a first-past-the post election.

[5] The grand jury accusation was dropped after Betkouski lost the election on the grounds that the only penalty he might suffer would be removal from office.