San Diego Port Commissioner Sandy Naranjo, who earlier this week was censured for misconduct, falsely accused the agency's top lawyer of being corrupt and tried to get him fired for looking into her external financial dealings that had the potential to create conflicts of interest, according to a partially redacted confidential personnel investigation released to the public late Wednesday.
San Diego Port Commissioner Sandy Naranjo was censured for misconduct and stripped of her vice chair role after a heated special board meeting on Tuesday evening.
Board Chairman Rafael Castellanos said he admired Naranjo's work and regretted having to vote for the reprimand. But he called Naranjo's supposed behavior "distressing, troubling, alarming."
A 5-page resolution says Naranjo breached her duty of care by levying serious allegations against a district employee that, "upon prudent or even minimal inquiry, would have readily been discredited as false."