Author: Karen Velie

FBI launches Atascadero City Hall investigation

2/15/2008

Federal investigators will probe activities at Atascadero City Hall, according to City Attorney Brian Pierik.

Pierik issued an unusual press release late today revealing the investigation, but said details will remain confidential. The inquiry likely centers around the city’s unconventional and questionable procurement of FEMA funds to build a replacement youth center at 5493 Traffic Way.

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French solicits donations but pays CEO big bucks

Employees at nonprofit French Hospital Medical Center are reportedly encouraged to seek private donors for needed equipment purchases while the facility’s chief operating officer pulls down nearly a million dollars in salary and benefits — and probably continues to hold down a second fulltime job.

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Atascadero filches FEMA funds, youth center rises on tainted land

Over the past four years, Atascadero city officials conspired to bilk taxpayers out of more than $4 million in disaster aid to construct a replacement youth center under the guise the previous center had been rendered unsafe during the 2003 San Simeon Earthquake.

Last month, the replacement center, constructed on an abandoned sewer site and gasoline depository, opened its doors to the city’s youth.

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