City Council candidate Erin Darling claims Traci Park defended powerful interests and "racism" by a city worker. Park counters that Darling represented unsavory criminals.
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The law firm representing the city of San Diego in a pair of high-profile legal disputes is the subject of a new allegation, that one of its partners threatened a witness in a civil case with personal and professional harm if he did not testify in the city’s favor.
Senior Chief Deputy City Attorney Mark Skeels said in sworn declarations filed this week that attorney William Price, of the Burke Williams Sorenson law firm, sought to influence how Skeels might testify in a lawsuit against his employer, the city of San Diego. The law firm is representing the city in the lawsuit.
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One of the biggest mysteries in recent San Diego political history is deepening, with fresh disclosures and a new lawsuit related to the infamous “Footnote 15 that roiled the elections for mayor and city attorney during the final weeks of the fall campaign.
It’s still not clear who wrote the footnote that was inserted into a report to city officials last summer and that was leaked to NBC 7 San Diego, presumably to affect the looming election.
But documents newly released by the city in response to a Public Records Act request appear to confirm that the City Attorney’s Office has known for months that there were multiple versions of the report of an investigation into the city’s lease-to-own purchase of the former Sempra Energy building at 101 Ash St.