Months before City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto recommended Mark Adams for the equivalent of an open-ended, no-bid contract to oversee 1,500 Skid Row tenants, Adams hosted a fundraiser for her campaign.
Mark Adams is overseeing the welfare of 1,500 tenants in Skid Row. In prior cases involving Adams, tenants faced the risk of eviction and property owners lost their houses.
“Did the city go to a judge and advocate for a donor or advocate for the best-qualified person?” said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School and former president of the city’s Ethics Commission. “We were in a position where we had to act,” Feldstein Soto said. “Call it a Hail Mary if you want. He was the only possible solution within the time frame, with the funding, with the experience that we thought could get the job done.”
Adams told The Times that he was upfront about the financing terms he could secure and that it was Feldstein Soto who had failed to deliver on a promise of philanthropic funding at low interest rates. Adams declined to answer questions from The Times about his campaign contributions. He has handled 300 receiverships in California over nearly 25 years and previously argued that The Times spotlighted only a handful in which judges and others had questioned his performance.
Feldstein Soto’s campaign treasurer and political consultant did not respond to follow-up questions from The Times asking for an accounting of everyone who contributed at Adams’ fundraiser.
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