Los Cerritos News to release City Controller Wendy "The Villar Greuel" Emails

** In a potential Mayoral Campaign blockbuster, the Los Cerritos News will be releasing emails between the Wendy "The Villar Greuel Campaign and the likes of IBEW's Boss Brian D"Arcy.

 Wendy Greuel poses with former LA County Assessor John Noguez.

According to Los Cerritos News Group Reporter Randy Economy, the news group will be releasing emails between the Wendy Greuel Campaign and DWP Union IBEW officials. The LCCN had requested the emails via a California Public Records Act request. ** Late Morning Update: You can read the Exclusive LCCN story on the "Villar Greuel's" Controller Office Email by linking here.

After receiving a letter indicating LCCN will file a lawsuit next Monday over a long and possibly illegal delay of a public records request, LA Mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel’s Chief Deputy Controller Claire Bartels emailed indicating the records were ready.“It was a very short response, we waited 87 days to get the records,” said LCCN Publisher Brian Hews. ” They said the records are ready, no mention of which request the records related to, or even how many pages were included, which is the information you traditionally get when you make this type of request.”Greuel’s office indicated they mailed the documents to LCCN attorney Kelly Aviles, who will forward to LCCN on Monday.LCCN sent the requests January 23, 2013 and asked for any emails between Brian D’Arcy head of the powerful IBEW and a huge campaign contributor, campaign managers John Shallman, and Rose Kapolczynski and only Greuel for two years between Jan 2011 and Jan 2013.The second request asked for emails between 12 people, LCCN, and only Greuel, with a time frame of only two weeks, Jan 11, 2013 to Jan 22, 2013.Under Government Code 6253, Greuel had 24 days to respond to the request.On day 82, after several communications between LCCN, Aviles, and Greuel, her office turned to the Los Angeles City Attorney to further delay the request. In the letter Greuel “took issue with the assertions,…and under no circumstances is our office delaying records, your conclusion is inaccurate and unfounded.” It went on to state that the request “was voluminous” and encompassed “twenty-eight categories” and could be “tens of thousands of documents.”“How can there be “voluminous documents” and “tens of thousands of pages” when the emails I asked for are between D’Arcy, Kapolczynski, and Shallman,” said Hews. “In her letter Greuel is admitting voluminous correspondence with the head of the IBEW, a huge campaign contributor and her two campaign directors during regular business hours.”

An excerpt from the LCCN Exclusive story.

Ethics Violation?In one of the most egregious communications, which can be questioned as a possible ethics violation, Greuel emails the city of Los Angeles Preliminary Financial Report for 2011-2012 to Kapolczynski, Shallmann, and Jacobsen. The email was sent out at 7:41am, two and a half hours prior to the scheduled presentation to Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council and before giving the document to the City Clerk.Attempts by LCCN to contact Ms. Greuel for comment have repeatedly been denied.

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