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FOIA: Documents Show Two Central Basin Directors Attempting Extortion and Harassing Employees

FOIA: Documents Show Two Central Basin Directors Attempting Extortion and Harassing Employees

      September 21, 2021 BY BRIAN HEWS • [email protected]   Leticia Vasquez-Wilson was elected to the Central Basin Board (CB) in 2012, taking her seat in January 2013.…

Central Basin Water Closes Year on a High Note

Central Basin Water Closes Year on a High Note

July 28, 2021 BY BRIAN HEWS COMMERCE, CA ~  The Central Basin Municipal Water District (CB) ended its fiscal year on a positive note with a position of strong fiscal…

Central Basin Project Will Save 38M Gallons of Potable Water Every Year

Central Basin Project Will Save 38M Gallons of Potable Water Every Year

  BY BRIAN HEWS• June 10, 2021 With former disgraced GM Kevin Hunt, his puppet Finance Director Andrew Hamilton, and several other questionable employee’s departure, the administrative and financial turnaround…

Central Basin Water Lowers Rates, Generates $2.5 Million Net Operating Margin

Central Basin Water Lowers Rates, Generates $2.5 Million Net Operating Margin

  Central Basin customers expected to pay 14 percent less for imported water. By Brian Hews • May 24, 2021 COMMERCE, CA – Only months after Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia’s controversial…

Central Basin Sues Dir. Leticia Vasquez for ‘Libelous’ Statements in YouTube Video

Central Basin Sues Dir. Leticia Vasquez for ‘Libelous’ Statements in YouTube Video

Vasquez in the video said Downey’s water shows “troubling patterns of water contamination.”   BY BRIAN HEWS • MAY 2, 2021 The unauthorized and reckless actions of Central Basin Director…

Video: Central Basin Dir. Leticia Vasquez Calls Downey’s Water ‘Undrinkable’

Video: Central Basin Dir. Leticia Vasquez Calls Downey’s Water ‘Undrinkable’

Central Basin Director Leticia Vasquez-Wilson  in front of a Downey water well, the video is at the end of the story.   BY BRIAN HEWS • April 5, 2021 In…

Consultant With Questionable Contract Demands Payment, Threatens Central Basin With Lawsuit

Consultant With Questionable Contract Demands Payment, Threatens Central Basin With Lawsuit

BY BRIAN HEWS • November 13, 2020 Dallas Fowler, the self-proclaimed media professional and consultant, has sent a threatening letter to the Central Basin Board and spoke during public comment…

Emails Are Troubling Sign for Two Central Basin Water Directors

Emails Are Troubling Sign for Two Central Basin Water Directors

BY BRIAN HEWS • November 8, 2020 Hews Media Group-Cerritos News has obtained documents via a public records request that show public relations firms using the names of Central Basin…

Financial Revelations Stop Further Credit Downgrades for Central Basin – Agency Eyes Future Upgrades

Financial Revelations Stop Further Credit Downgrades for Central Basin – Agency Eyes Future Upgrades

BY BRIAN HEWS  October 13, 2020 Earlier this month, Hews Media Group-Cerritos News exclusively reported that recently hired Central Basin (CB) General Manager Alex Rojas found that former CB Director…

Central Basin Board Works Together to Reorganize Agency Into Profitability

Central Basin Board Works Together to Reorganize Agency Into Profitability

  BY BRIAN HEWS • August 21, 2020 Central Basin Director John Oskoui has missed several meetings since January, preventing the agency from moving forward and addressing infrastructure problems left…

Central Basin Board Irate as Department Heads Propose $2.7 Million Increase

Central Basin Board Irate as Department Heads Propose $2.7 Million Increase

BY BRIAN HEWS • July 28, 2020 The Central Basin 2020-’21 operating budget was included in yesterday’s board meeting but by the time the meeting addressed the item on the…

Judge’s Ruling in Central Basin Board Lawsuit Called Into Question, One Side Will Appeal

Judge’s Ruling in Central Basin Board Lawsuit Called Into Question, One Side Will Appeal

  After ruling, Oskoui and Apodaca once again fail to attend crucial board meeting. BY BRIAN HEWS • July 26, 2020 A Superior Court judge has joined the fray at…

EXCLUSIVE: Central Basin Privatization-Corruption Web Involves Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon

EXCLUSIVE: Central Basin Privatization-Corruption Web Involves Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon BY BRIAN HEWS • July 22, 2020 The allegations of corruption and privatization have been swirling around Central Basin Municipal Water District for months now, as…

Mystery Surrounds Death of 34 Year-Old Central Basin Municipal Water Employee

Mystery Surrounds Death of 34 Year-Old Central Basin Municipal Water Employee

By Brian Hews •  July 3, 2020 Hews Media Group-Los Cerritos Community News has learned that Central Basin Municipal Water employee Chris Alvarez was found dead in his home yesterday.…

BREAKING: HMG Article Results in Resignation of Central Basin Director Dan Arrighi

BREAKING: HMG Article Results in Resignation of Central Basin Director Dan Arrighi

  BY BRIAN HEWS • JUNE 28, 2020 Hews Media Group-Cerritos News has learned that Central Basin appointed Director Dan Arrighi will be resigning his seat effective tomorrow. The resignation…

Asm. Cristina Garcia Took Thousands From Companies Who Thirst for Central Basin Water Receivership

Asm. Cristina Garcia Took Thousands From Companies Who Thirst for Central Basin Water Receivership

  BY BRIAN HEWS • May 31, 2020 This past week, Hews Media Group was first to report that Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell) co-sponsored SB 625, a bill that would…

BREAKING: Asm. Cristina Garcia Bill Would Place Central Basin Water Into Receivership

BREAKING: Asm. Cristina Garcia Bill Would Place Central Basin Water Into Receivership

BY BRIAN HEWS • May 27, 2020 Hews Media Group has learned that Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia is co-sponsoring a bill that would place Central Basin Municipal Water District, a public…

City of Commerce Pulls Out of Lawsuit Against Central Basin and Board of Directors

City of Commerce Pulls Out of Lawsuit Against Central Basin and Board of Directors

    BY BRIAN HEWS • May 24, 2020 Hews Media Group-Los Cerritos Community Newspaper has learned that the Commerce City Council voted to remove themselves as party to a…

Central Basin Finance Director Andrew Hamilton Has FTB Suspended Corporation

Central Basin Finance Director Andrew Hamilton Has FTB Suspended Corporation

The address for the corporation is the same contact address listed on the State Board Accountancy website that has Hamilton’s CPA license information. BY BRIAN HEWS Back in 2017, when…

Rogue Central Basin Employees Questionably Delay Public Records Request

Rogue Central Basin Employees Questionably Delay Public Records Request

  The employees are allies of the Cristina Garcia appointed directors Joshuana “John” Oskoui and Dan Arrighi, along with Director Bob Apodaca. BY BRIAN HEWS When a reporter initiates a…