Naming the deputies

In today's Daily Breeze, David Zahniser provides more details about the latest turn in the investigations into possible pay-for-play and other kinds of corruption involving city contracts and the Hahn administration. He reports that a recent letter from the DA's Public Integrity Division asked for expense reports from Mayor Hahn's 2002 trip to Asia for Hahn and four others: deputy mayor Doane Liu, former deputy mayor Troy Edwards, deputy chief of staff Nathalie Rayes and former airport and DWP commissioner Leland Wong. The Times' Patrick McGreevy and Noam N. Levey broke the story on Tuesday but didn't name the deputies. By the way, that trip to Asia in November 2002 included a large contingent of Friends of Hahn. The mayor's current director of communciations, Shannon Murphy, went in her former capacity as an executive of Fleishman-Hillard public relations. Her boss at Fleishman, Doug Dowie, also went, as did council president Alex Padilla, council members Janice Hahn and Eric Garcetti, big donors to the mayor's anti-secession campaign that year and two key Valley business figures who stayed out of the secession fight, Galpin Motors executive Alan Skobin (since appointed by Hahn to the police commission) and Bruce Ackerman of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley. The trip was announced three days after the secession proposal was defeated.

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