Here’s another inewsource.org article on the apparent conflicts-of-interest pertaining to lawsuits filed by Cory Briggs against economic development projects in San Diego. Briggs is the partner-in-litigation of Anaheim gadfly group CATER, and has had “business dealings” with CATER President Cynthia Ward “regarding legal representation.”
The environmental consulting firm that employed the wife of a well-known San Diego lawyer who often sued its government clients said the employee did not disclose her professional relationship with her husband’s law firm and she should have.
Helix Environmental Planning, based in La Mesa, made the statements about Sarichia Cacciatore, the wife of attorney Cory Briggs, in a letter Tuesday to the San Diego city attorney. The attorney’s office requested information about Cacciatore, whose husband has built a reputation on suing government agencies over environmental laws, after an inewsource investigation found the potential conflict of interest.
Cacciatore worked for Helix for more than eight years, and was involved in at least one environmental impact report her husband sued the city over. In a deposition released to inewsource Monday, Cacciatoresaid she has been a vice president of his law corporation for 20 years.
You can read the entire article here. As yet, CATER has issued no statement other than a comment by Ward on the first investigative piece, attacking inewsource.org.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1679432-deposition-transcript-sarichia-cacciatore.html
Why would we “issue a statement” in response to this? That’s a weird thing to say. Has there been some official investigation asserting wrongdoing? Did ACOC issue a statement when you used a mutilated teddy bear to mock those grieving for the dead?
Weird, Matt. Very weird.
Well, Greg. I did not mutilate a teddy bear, nor did I mock anyone who was grieving. Those are inventions of your very fertile imagination – the same one that has you thinking you are actually winning this case.
What does any of this have to do whether government is in compliance with environmental laws? Either they are or they are not. Right? Are government environmental violations privileged information? Isn’t the public allowed to know?