When the smoke cleared there was nothing left but Sukhee’s crater.
So said Arnold Forde and Stu Mollrich according to a Great Park audit deposition by Walter Kreutzen, as reported by the OC Register, here.
Who are Arnold Forde or Stu Mollrich? They are the Larry Agran/Sukhee Kang political consultants who landed a $100,000 per month no-bid, fixed fee contract to do PR work for the non-existent Great Park. Kreutzer is a former CEO of the Great Park who soon discovered who the real shot-caller was. Of course one of those automatic, spend it and forget the cost votes belonged to our old friend, Larry Agran puppet, Sukhee Kang.
Who cares, it’s not my money…
The Great Park, that turned out to be not great and not a park was not really a public works projects at all – not in the traditional sense. Instead it was a scam to rake off millions into the pockets of Agran and Kang’s political consultants and buddies – who then worked real hard to get their sugar daddies re-elected. Nice, huh? There was no oversight, no budget, no plan – just a web of corruption that was bound to fall apart sooner or later.
$200,000,000 later, the enormity of the disaster was evident for everybody to see.
Agran and Kang are mercifully no longer in office. But Sukhee has big plans for himself, far from the smoking financial ruin he left in Irvine. He wants to represent north OC in the California State Senate.
Are we going to let him bring his special brand of corruption and incompetence to Sacramento representing us?
January 12, 2016 at 8:05 pm
“Are we going to let him bring his special brand of corruption and incompetence to Sacramento representing us?”
Of course not. I’ve already ordered my “No Sukhee, Irvine Carpetbagger” sign!
January 13, 2016 at 8:37 am
Absolutely not! Oorah!
January 13, 2016 at 11:27 am
$100,000 a month FIXED FEE and no oversight?
That’s really hard to believe. It’s even harder to believe that Kang got away with it given the fact that the money poured into his own campaign consultants’ pockets.
January 13, 2016 at 4:38 pm
Nuke the Suke!
January 14, 2016 at 5:57 am
Happy New Year, everyone! Never forget, Suhkee Kang is the worst.
January 14, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Agreed. Sukhee Kang is a horrible candidate for state senate. He must loose the primary and if not, we can defeat him in the general election!
January 19, 2016 at 5:47 pm
Great Park Audit – Report of special councel March 24, 2015
http://files.onset.freedom.com/ocregister/GREAT_PARK_AUDIT/ALESHIRE_REPORT.pdf Found this link from OC Register.
January 19, 2016 at 9:34 pm
Link to the Register including a link to last year’s audit report: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/million-655552-council-audit.html
January 19, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Found another article which is called “Great Park contractors’ ties revealed in latest Irvine deposition” http://www.ocregister.com/articles/park-653428-great-gafcon.html
January 19, 2016 at 9:47 pm
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January 20, 2016 at 8:37 am
Through all of this, all we hear from Suhkee is:
“I don’t know”
“I can’t remember”
” I don’t understand English”
” I was not aware”
” Staff just told me to sign”
This is real important. This is real money we are talking about. Suhkee is a leader that failed fantastically and in a very big way in Irvine. And now, the Democratic Party is attempting to ram him down our throats here in Fullerton.
Propped him up with all kinds of endorsements and threatened the OC officials with syphoning off their campaign cash flow if they don’t fall in line with their good ole boy Suhkee. They blissfully step over the fact that Suhkee had the ability to and was in a position to stop the rampant misuse of hundreds of millions of dollars in Irvine, yet he did nothing.
Vote for him, he’s Asian and a good fundraiser, they say.
A vote for Suhkee Kang is irresponsible.
January 24, 2016 at 3:06 am
He doesn’t even know about his last deposition from seven to eight years ago. What a excuse for a politician like Sukhee Kang. Why should people even elect in a politicians like Sukhee Kang when he doesn’t know anything and plus issues with memorizing the past and he teaches at Chapman university?! Probably students would view him unfavorably due to his lack of proficiency in English. Take a look at Rate My Professors which I am assuming this is Sukey Kang http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=503733 again for Kang, fail! Students are complaining that Sukhee Kang doesn’t teach well. Do not vote Sukhee Kang 2016!
January 24, 2016 at 10:15 am
More lies from Suhkee. What they should have done is made him take a lie detector test. Let me tell you something. When you are called in to give a deposition, it is a unforgettable experience that you do not soon forget…it is a memory that lasts for the rest of your life. For Suhkee to say that he can’t remember the last one is hog wash.
As to Suhkee being a poor teacher. Tell me something I don’t already know.
No Kang!
January 24, 2016 at 12:10 pm
“When you are called in to give a deposition, it is a unforgettable experience that you do not soon forget”
True!
January 23, 2016 at 8:17 pm
I have stumbled upon a website about King Agran which is http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Larry_Agran . This website actually nails it in the coffin on why corrupt politicans like Larry Agran and Sukhee Kang often gets re-elected often. The problem with voters in Irvine is lack of information which is about ethical issues for example. According to this website, “It’s time for Larry Agran and Sukhee Kang [Agran’s political go-fer] to get out of city hall,” writes the website’s creator, attorney David Winslow, an Irvine resident since 1970. “It never seemed logical that voters would knowingly cast their vote for someone with ethical problems. Why then, does he and his associates get re-elected in Irvine where most of the voters are highly educated people?”
Because Agran dominates a 3-2 city council majority, he appointed himself as chairman of the Great Park board, a move that put him in control of as much as $1.6 billion in public spending. Every major local news outlet has blasted Agran for his secrecy and the no-bid contracts that routinely land in the hands of his personal friends and campaign contributors. He gave one of his friends a whopping no-bid $100,000-a-month contract to create publicity for a park that doesn’t yet exist. This website points out that Irvine voters were too ignorant on voting in a candidate who has ethical issues which is Larry Agran and Sukhee Kang for example. Reasons why corrupt politicians like Larry Agran and Sukhee Kang gets re-elected often is residents of Irvine are too busy on focusing on local politics than city government. Just to let everyone know that Larry Agran was once a candidate for president back in 1992 which he didn’t win the nomination at all since Agran is often ignored by the MSM (Mainstream Media).