A three-year-long forensic audit found no pattern of fraud in county contracts entered into during Mark Ridley-Thomas' time on the Board of Supervisors. But the authors said they can't give the county a clean bill of health.
The bulk of contracts Los Angeles County inked during the 12-year tenure of former Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, the formidable politician convicted last year on corruption charges, were untainted by fraud, according to a years-long outside investigation. “We did not identify a pattern of corruption and fraud,” Dan Shallman, a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling, told county supervisors Tuesday. “That’s the good news.
Supervisor Hilda Solis, who pushed for the inquiry, called the findings “sobering.” “Our duty is to make sure we’re really being very good about our taxpayer dollars,” she said. Citing attorney-client privilege, the county has previously declined to tell The Times how much it paid either firm for the investigation, which stretched at least a year longer than anticipated. The public also appears unlikely to see the final report.
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