D’oh!
Reading through the deposition of former mayor Sukhee Kang by the lawyer, Anthony Taylor, hired by the City of Irvine to investigate possible fraud and malfeasance, is pretty revealing. We can tell that Mr. Taylor is probing into issues that may relate to criminal activities, including the submission of false claims by the Great Park’s no-bid vendors, and not run-of-the-mill incompetence of the sort we see in local government all the time.
No, there is nothing specifically illegal about being dumb and ignorant.
And so shameless Sukhee submitted himself to three hours of interrogation in which he admits (or pretends to admit) a shocking lack of curiosity about specifics of the Great Park during the period of time that the once grandiose scheme melted into a big, wet puddle.
It was not Mr. Taylor’s job to delve into the lackadaisical way Sukhee carried out the job of mayor, other than to the extent that he may have been complicit in the commission of one or more crimes. We, however, may exercise a far wider latitude in our endeavors to question what Sukhee knew, and when he knew it; or, ultimately, whether that really matters as much as this bald fact: hundreds of millions of dollars were paid to a handful of politically connected consultants by the Great Park Board and the City of Irvine with virtually nothing to show for it.
And that’s a bottom line that nobody can explain away.
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