The former councilor of Los Angeles, Kevin de León, faces a fine of ethics of $ 18,750 for voting on the decisions of the City Council in which he had a financial interest and for not revealing income.
The lion has admitted four positions to “make or participate in a decision in which a financial interest is a hero” and a position of not revealing income, In accordance with a report Prepared by the application arm of the Ethics Commission of the City of Los Angeles.
The Ethics Report says that in 2020-21 the lion voted on three issues of the City Council that benefited the Aids Healthcare Foundation and one that helped USC-ALL decisions that were taken less than one year after it received more than $ Thaine Thuis $ Thaore according to state law, elected officials must unleash each source of gross income of $ 500 or more The position.
Less than 12 months after receiving the income from the Aids Healthcare Foundation, the Lion participated in three separate city decisions that affected the foundation in what he knew or had to know that he had a financial interest, the report of the Ethics Commission. But according to the report of the Ethics Commission, the Lion did not reveal $ 109,231 in income he had recovered from the Foundation before he is a position.
On November 25, 2020, he voted for the application of the Foundation for the historical designation of King Edward Hotel, owned by the Foundation. On April 22, 2021, he voted for an article regarding a lease of the city of the Hotel Retan owned by the Foundation. On May 4, 2021, he voted again for a lease of the city of the Retan hotel.
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USC paid $ 155,000 as an independent contractor from July 2019 to June 2020.
Less than 12 months later, the Lion participated in a decision of the city that benefited USC, agreed to the Ethics Commission. In June 2021, the Lion voted to approve the consolidated housing and community development plan proposed by the budget, which included an allocation of $ 1 million to the Keck School of Medicine of the USC.
In March 2020, the Lion was chosen to represent the 14th district of the Council in the City of Los Angeles. In May 2020, while he was still a member of the elected council, the Lion held a consulting agreement with the Healthy Housing Foundation, a division of the Healthcare Foundation AIDS and began providing services as a strategic policy advisor.
The agreement said that De León had to “advise and strengthen the strategy regarding associations and policy ideas on behalf of the HHF portfolio”, and “”[e]NGAGE with policy formulators and regulators on all areas Relationships with the general strategic objectives of HHF “, according to the Ethics Commission.
León assumed the position in October 2020. Hey presented a financial dissemination form next month, but did not reveal the Aids Healthcare Foundation or its Healthy Housing Foundation as sources of income. In December 2020, he presented amendment but did not reveal the income of the Aids Healthcare Foundation, which was “the true source of the income he received under the consulting agreement,” according to the report of the Ethics Commission.
When determining the amount of fine, the Ethics Commission said that De León cooperated with the staff and that he has no prior application record. However, the Ethics Commission said that violations in this case are serious and that “violations seem to indicate a pattern of behavior.”
Similar problems They were highlighted in a story of 2023 Times That found De León helped organize a meeting in the summer of 2020 with a group of city department leaders and employees of high -ranking mayor to address the problems facing the Aids Healthcare Foundation. At that time, the lion had the chosen leg but not yet the tasks.
In the months prior to the meeting, the Aids Healthcare Foundation was studying that the city illegally denied the funds for an affordable housing project that the Foundation was proposing. An email from the then chief of the mayor’s cabinet to colleagues said that De León “wants to participate and come with a solution.”
Five city officials who attended the information or were involved in the organization of the organization and told the Times in 2023 who did not know that De León was used as a consultant for the foundation at that time, or in more than $ 100,000 that he was paying him in the six in the six in the six.
Meanwhile, political ethics experts told The Times that León’s relationship with the foundation and failure to reveal their financial ties raised a possible concern of the conflict of interest. They believed that their actions could have left the city employees with uncertainty about who was serving, the city or its then employer.
