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By Brian Hews Embattled Central Basin Water Director James Roybal, the target of a recall movement started in March of this year, has been charged by the Fair Political…
Staff Report NORWALK—Today, Maria T. Santillan-Beas, the first Latina to be elected to the Lynwood City Council by voters back in 2003, pulled papers at the County Registrar-Recorder’s Office to…
By Brian Hews Hews Media Group-Community News has exclusively learned that Montebello City Councilwoman Vanessa Delgado and Central Basin Water (CB) Director Leticia Vasquez met last Wednesday…
Within four months, District has completed 66% of recommendations Commerce, CA – In less than four months the Central Basin Municipal Water District has completed two-thirds of the recommendations provided…
HMG-CN Staff Report Embattled Central Basin Water VP James Roybal, the target of a recall movement started last week, has been charged by the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC)…
20-Registered Voters Sign Petition to Recall Embattled Water Director By Brian Hews Hews Media Group-Community News has exclusively learned that Central Basin Municipal Water District (CB) Director…
Staff Report In December of last year, a California State audit slammed Commerce-based Central Basin Municipal Water District (CB), citing, among other things, poor leadership and hiring unqualified staff.…
By Brian Hews Hews Media Group-Community News exclusively reported Thursday Jan. 7 that Los Angeles-based attorney John W. Harris of Harris and Associates – a friend of Central…
Apodaca, Vasquez, and Royal fired Perez “for cause,” costing the agency $625,000. If the three would have dismissed Perez without cause, he would have been paid $200,000. By Brian Hews…
Staff Report Controversy surrounded this past Friday’s Central Basin Municipal Water District’s (CB) special board meeting as an article published in Hews Media Group-Community News in print and online called…
Central Basin GM Kevin Hunt and law firm in charge of choosing the ethics counsel had “no idea” about the law firm’s transgressions. By Brian Hews In May 2015,…
By Brian Hews Hews Media Group-Community News has learned that certain members on Central Basin Municipal Water District’s (CB) Board of Directors are, for the sake of political retribution, blocking…
LA County Supervisor Don Knabe issued a statement 12/4/15: “I originally called for an audit of the Central Basin Municipal Water District in 2014. At the time, the organization was…
HMG-CN Staff Report Hews Media Group-Community News has learned that embattled Central Basin Division Four Director Leticia Vasquez has been fined by the state Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC)…
Staff Report In another blow to the embattled water agency, Moody’s Investors Service has placed Central Basin Municipal Water District’s debt, its Aa3 Certificates of Participation, under review for…
Years of corruption and Board control by a dysfunctional majority leave take-over by County Supervisors as only solution to fix the beleaguered water agency. By Brian Hews The time has come, the Three must go.…
Less than a year after insurance cancelled for “Board dysfunction”, former GM Perez multi-million dollar lawsuit prompts 2nd cancellation By Brian Hews For the second time in less than…
Former GM Perez sues District for Retaliation, Defamation and Breach of Contract By Brian Hews HMG-CN has exclusively obtained a copy of a lawsuit filed by lawyers of former…
By Brian Hews Hews Media Group-Community News has obtained documents that show the Los Angeles based law firm of Tafoya and Garcia (TG) has been illegally granted permission, without a…
Law enforcement and District Attorney’s failure to indict Board President Bob Apodaca will cost Central Basin Municipal Water District ratepayers millions of dollars. By Brian Hews No one is…