The city's planning department paid its former top executive more than $18,000 a month in consulting fees. At the same time, he was illegally lobbying managers in that same agency, documents show.
Los Angeles’ planning department was paying its former top executive more than $18,000 a month in consulting fees during the period when he was illegally lobbying managers in that same agency on behalf of real estate developers, documents show.to violating city ethics laws by lobbying planning department officials just months after leaving his job running the agency.
City Ethics Commission staffers would comment on his consulting contract, which paid him $54,750 over three months. “They’re selling access that normal people would not have,” said Rey López-Calderón, executive director of the good government group California Common Cause, describing it as “gaming the system.”
LoGrande’s contract called on him to provide “strategic advice” on such issues as transportation planning and redevelopment. Weeks after he received the contract, LoGrande began seeking to influence planning department decisions on behalf of clients of his new firm, LoGrande & Co.LoGrande was being paid as a city consultant when he contacted a planning department supervisor about a request from a client, HQ Development, to convert a piece of property in Hollywood into a parking lot.
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