By Norma Damashek / NumbersRunner / April 27, 2022 Let’s pretend we’re hotshot detectives in a Netflix blockbuster about a real estate deal gone bad … really bad. The action takes place in San Diego, where most every city official past and present is hell-bent on burying the evidence. An apt name for…
San Diego is set to recover almost $10 million from former adviser Jason Hughes, but officials must still figure out what to do with the land and a slew of remaining litigation.
Under a deal approved Wednesday by the City Council, he will also pay back the money he collected from a pair of leases that cost San Diego hundreds of millions.
Former city real estate adviser pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor conflict-of-interest charge after agreeing to essentially pay back the city $9.4 million he received from the city’s ex-landlord for his work on two city lease deals.