Jun 22, 2007 10:23 am US/Pacific
Commission, State Bar To Investigate Delgadillo
LOS ANGELES (CBS) ―
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Delgadillo is reportedly fully prepared to cooperate with any investigation.
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Delgadillo's wife, Michelle, earlier this week pleaded no contest to driving without a valid license.
Investigators from the Los Angeles Ethics Commission and the State Bar of California have launched separate inquiries related to City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's use of city resources for personal reasons, it was reported Friday.
In recent days, the city's top prosecutor has acknowledged letting his wife drive his city-owned vehicle without a license and enlisting staff members to run personal errands and baby-sit his children.
"There are certainly concerns about the misuse of public property for private benefit," Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause, told the Los Angeles Times. "Particularly because we are talking about a position that must maintain a high level of public integrity ... we would want an investigation to make sure that integrity is there."
Nick Velasquez, a spokesman for Delgadillo, told The Times that "the city attorney is fully prepared to cooperate with any investigation."
Because such investigations are confidential, authorities from the state bar and Ethics Commission declined to confirm them, according to The Times.
The state bar, however, confirmed its inquiry earlier this week in a letter to a Whittier attorney who lodged a complaint about Delgadillo's alleged unethical conduct after reading articles in The Times, the newspaper reported.
Additionally, two investigators met for 20 minutes Thursday with the general manager and assistant general manager of the General Services Department, which is in charge of the city's fleet of vehicles, according to The Times.
The investigators asked for information on the agency's policies and procedures for providing city-owned automobiles to officials and various employees, The Times reported.
(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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