City Atty. Mike Feuer is one quarter of the way through a months-long tour of L.A. Voters are asking about everything but the scandal involving one of his former top assistants.
Stumping around Los Angeles in his campaign for mayor, Mike Feuer likes to tell voters how his father, a lifelong educator and Nazi prisoner of war camp
Two and a half years later, as the mayor’s race pushes its way to center stage, the scandal and a scheme to settle a lawsuit over ratepayers’ complaints continue to rumble in the wings.Earlier this month came the news that Thomas Peters, whom Feuer made head of his office’s civil litigation section, would plead guilty to abetting extortion. Last week, an outside attorney filed a complaint asking the city’s Ethics Commission to investigate Feuer and others over the DWP debacle.
“He’s trying to make lemonade out of a lemon. And he has done fine so far,” said Fernando Guerra, director of Loyola Marymount University’s Center for the Study of Los Angeles. “But let’s be clear, it’s a lemon. It is a problem.” Federal authorities have charged that attorneys working for the city attorney’s office helped arrange outside legal representation for overcharged DWP customers in order to quickly reach a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that was favorable to the city.
Feuer said he deserved credit for actions his office took in 2019: hiring an outside attorney to conduct an ethics review in the wake of the scandal and imposingwith outside law firms, along with stronger oversight of the lawyers in those firms. In a mayoral debate held a week earlier via videoconference by Westside homeowners groups Feuer’s rivals signaled much greater skepticism.
The mayoral candidates had been asked about the DWP situation by Mike Eveloff, one of the debate moderators and president of the Friends of West L.A. community group. He called the DWP scandal “the elephant in the room.
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