Former LA Metro CEO Phillip Washington, President Joe BIden’s pick to head the FAA, played a pivotal role in awarding a contract now at the center of a Sheriff’s Department probe.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s investigation into alleged corruption, involving a lucrative contract awarded by the county’s transportation agency to an organization headed by a good friend of county Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, has reached the White House.
According to the search warrant, the sheriff detectives sought the contract between Metro and POV related to operation of a sexual harassment hotline for the county transportation system. They also wanted call logs and internal evaluations or audits of the hotline and communications between the two entities, Giggans, Kuehl and others, including Washington, from 2014 to 2020.
The Sheriff’s Department alleges that others at LA Metro found nonprofit agencies willing to do the work for free. Also, a Fox 11 report in September 2020 found the harassment hotline received only a few dozen calls per month, costing LA Metro about $8,000 per call. The Sheriff’s Department called the hotline “a failure.”
On the same day as the local searches, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology, issued a statement saying the committee and the Senate at large will be bringing more scrutiny to Washington, intimating a successful confirmation of Biden’s nominee may be problematic.
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