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| Serious criminal probe may be keeping Filner in office |
| 2013-08-11 |
| [DAILYCALLER] San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's endurance in the face of mounting sexual harassment accusations may be driven by his need to get out of an even bigger problem: a federal criminal investigation that has received little attention from the national media. The San Diego Creeper is the subject of an FBI probe of what looks like a quid-pro-quo arrangement with a local developer. In June local media obtained a voicemail Tom Story of Sunroad Centrum Partners left for various city council members regarding a $100,000 "gift" he made to two public projects Filner favored. At the time, Sunroad was looking to use public land for a project in Kearney Mesa. Story's strikingly direct voicemail indicates Filner agreed to give Sunroad the easement in exchange for the donation. "I'd like the council member to know that we have reached an agreement with the mayor's office," Story's message said. "We have paid him the money that was requested and was told that the mayor would support the override." The FBI will not comment on open investigations. But in early July Brent Seibert of U-T San Diego reported that FBI agents had visited more than one city council member about the $100,000 in checks. Other observers of America's Finest City report that Filner may be deposed in the potential extortion probe August 19. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 More: it wasn't really a Q-P-Q. Sunroad did a poor design and realized they needed a 5' easement for fire code on the Condo windows on a park edge - a park they paid for and turned over to the City. They offered to give $100K to the City for the easement (half the $200K it would cost them to upgrade the windows) - a reasonable deal which municipalities do all the time and apply to the area of development or that particular park - what would the City build against a fenceline 2' from Condo windows anyway? The problem is Mayor Grabby Grabby used the $ for two of his pet causes in another area of town unrelated to the development, and unapproved by the Council. That is more like extortion |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-08-11 11:24 |