Posted on 09/01/2015 12:27:52 PM PDT by tcrlaf
A dozen agents with the FBI and Riverside County District Attorney executed search warrants at Palm Springs City Hall on Tuesday morning, shutting the building down, sending employees home and removing evidence for an investigation.
About half a dozen law enforcement officials are also at an apartment that Mayor Steve Pougnet listed as his home address in county voter registration records. Pougnet lives part of the year with his husband and two children in Colorado.
Laura Eimiller, a public information officer with the FBI, said the warrants are sealed so she can't comment on their nature. But she did confirm that the investigation is part of an Inland Empire public corruption task force that also involves the San Bernardino District Attorney's Office and the Internal Revenue Service.
The raid comes roughly three months after the Fair Political Practices Commission announced it was investigating a vote by Mayor Steve Pougnet that awarded the sale of city property at a questionable price to developer Richard Meaney and his partner. The FPPC began investigating after The Desert Sun published a series of stories linking the mayor to more than $200,000 in consulting work to Union Abbey, a company owned by Meaney.
At the time the company's business license had been suspended by the State of California for five years.
(Excerpt) Read more at desertsun.com ...
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
A DEMOCRAT!!!
Never once, does this long article mention the word "Democrat"! The reporter would likely be kicked out o the "Kool Kids Klub" if he included the word "DEMOCRAT" in this. That is OBVIOUSLY unapproved, and politically-incorrect "new".
“Pougnet lives part of the year with his husband and two children in Colorado.”
Well, that tells me something.
Pougnet lives part of the year with his husband...
Just a guess, also, but probably a minority democrat.
My observation is that minority democrats see elected office as a license to enrich themselves.
Nails it!
What’s good for the mayor is good for the cankled one
Yep A DEMOCRAT!!! and a FAG!
“HIS HUSBAND”
That is no surprise. I would be shocked if any straight person was elected to anything in Palm Springs or in West Hollywood.
re:
“Pougnet lives part of the year with his husband and two children in Colorado.”
What about the safety of the kids???
The way the line is written, states that the kids belong to the mayor.
President Obama is greeted by Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet, center, shortly after landing in Palm Springs for his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday. At left is Congressman Raul Ruiz and at right is Rancho Mirage Mayor Richard Kite. / Jay Calderon, The Desert Sun
The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to office so that they can loot the public treasury.
I'd wear a haz-mat suit if I were the FBI. And prepare yourself to be shocked at what is found.
That would make an excellent tag line.
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