Mike Feuer’s office is dogged by DWP corruption scandal. Will voters care?
LA TimesLos Angeles City Atty. The city attorney’s representatives responded that the complaint was “a desperate attempt by a confessed criminal to divert attention from his own misconduct.” After months of visiting neighborhoods around L.A., where Feuer’s campaign said no one raised the DWP scandal, the new year has seen it begin to edge into the campaign. He later told a reporter via text that he “pledged to cooperate fully with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and can’t discuss its investigation,” adding: “I can certainly say that I’ve always acted completely appropriately in this and every case.” 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 imposing more stringent controls on contracts with outside law firms, along with stronger oversight of the lawyers in those firms. And I’ve handled this decisively, transparently.” In July, Feuer said he’d seen no evidence that Peters and another former top assistant “failed to act with integrity” in the DWP matter. He called the DWP scandal “the elephant in the room.” In a later interview, Eveloff called the topic “a serious problem for Mike Feuer.” Guerra said his sense — after watching the top six candidates when they met in separate class sessions with about 30 of his students — is that voters will be more concerned with solving the homelessness problem, creating housing and quelling an uptick in gun violence than with the complex actions of the city attorney’s office in the DWP case.
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