Last year I wrote about Metropolitan Water District's $571,400 Ethics Office.
We are now learning just how big of a colossal failure the Ethics Office is.
The Surf City Voice is reporting that MWD Chairman Col. John V. Foley (ret.) didn't think he needed to disclose his wife's income from her consulting business Statement of Economic Interests or “700” form. If she was consulting on something unrelated to water, maybe that wouldn't matter. But Mrs. Foley was consulting directly and indirectly with MWD and member agencies. That's a big conflict of interest.
Surf City Voice is reporting about $280,000 in unreported income.
If the number one man in charge of MWD doesn't recognize the need to report his wife's income, its time to find a new chairman and scrap the Ethics Office. For Pete's sake, even Linda Ackerman, another MWD director, reports her husband's income. Hubby Dick Ackerman is an attorney for Nossaman LLP which consults to MWD.
The Surf City Voice wrote quite an amazing expose on the incestuous relationships of the water agencies and their many directors.
In short, Orange County's water is dirty. Very dirty. And another $571,400 down the toilet.
How much more has MWD tossed away for feel-good programs that line the pockets of friends and family? How many more back-room deals have taken place?
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