Tuesday afternoon (a 3:30 pm start), the Republican Irvine city council majority will convene to approve what’s expected to be hundreds of thousands of dollars for Aleshire and Wynder, the investigators of the Great Park don’t-call-it-a-forensic-audit to pursue tolling agreements from Great Park contractors targeted in their investigation.
The city council will approve a budget adjustment for “an amount deemed appropriate” from the Orange County Great Park fund 180 and approve contract amendments increasing the project scope to “encompass a new effort.”
All this after the city lobbied furiously to prevent the state from investigating the way the council’s two-person subcommittee handled the investigation is, in my opinion, just asking for a renewed efforts to get the two votes needed to ask the state auditor to investigate.
For those OC Democrats attending this weekend’s State Democratic Party Convention, please make it a point to ask the California AG Kamala Harris to launch her own investigation into this fraud.
Liberals talk about transparency, but when the spotlight shines on them, they skitter underneath rocks and hide facts and spin yarns. Take Hillary Clinton, or Larry Agran, please. If Larry and his cronies had answered all the questions in a timely and honest manner, the costs would have been far lower. But liberals don’t give a **** about spending public funds. They simply pretend to for political fodder. No liberal in Irvine complained as Larry and company squandered $250,000,000. Now, all of a sudden, $1.5 million is worth screaming about.
“Liberals” turned over boxes and boxes of requested information and asked for the questions the auditors and investigators wanted in order to comply. The city wants Forde & Mollrich to open books for their entire company including accounts that have nothing to do with the Great Park or the City of Irvine.
When conservatives talk about transparency, its to attack people asking the questions. The two person star chamber managing the investigator operated in the shadows. The city lobbied to have the state assembly subcommittee not send an audit of the audit to the state auditor. What are you guys hiding exactly?