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: Legal Pad | LAState's ethics enforcement agency says charges against Schwarzenegger will not be back
By Richard Binder
The Fair Political Practices Commission, in a letter earlier this month, told a lawyer for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that a complaint filed by the California Democratic Party four years ago in connection with a consulting contract he reached with a muscle magazine publisher days before he took office in 2003 is now closed.
The contract with American Media Inc. was estimated to be worth up to $8 million over five years. It began in January 2004, but Schwarzenegger canceled the contract after financial details were disclosed in newspaper reports in mid-2005.
In its letter, the ethics commission did not explain its decision to dismiss the complaint, or why the review took four years.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).
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