 | Is this one of those graduates of the Hillary Clinton Public Administration Academy? |
A high-level manager for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles directed nearly $800,000 in contracts to his brothers and three politically connected firms without competitive bidding or after rigged contests, a Times review has found. The manager, Victor Taracena, oversaw more than 150 contracts worth about half a million dollars that went directly to companies his brothers created, contract files show. Seven other contracts worth $289,000 were awarded to non-family firms, two of which had little or no expertise in the work they were hired to do. |