DOWNTOWN (KUSI) – On Tuesday the city of San Diego announced a lawsuit to void its lease-to-own agreements in the 101 Ash Street and Civic Center Plaza building deals due to an advisor allegedly receiving millions in undisclosed compensation for negotiating the transactions in violation of state law.
Now the former City Attorney, Michael Aguirre elected to serve in 2004, is demanding more answers about what Mara Elliott and other elected officials knew about those payments.
Reports show Jason Hughes represented himself to be a “special volunteer for real estate services” who was negotiating the deals on the city’s behalf for free “out of a sense of civic duty.”