Opinion: Mayor may not see much foreign service
It wasn’t the expanding crisis of homeless encampments on city streets, despite tax increases pushed by Garcetti to fund more housing construction and services. It wasn’t the worsening crime problem, including the growing problem of criminal indictments in City Hall.
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in December, Garcetti was not asked about homelessness, crime or corruption. But he was asked a question about allegations that his former advisor, Rick Jacobs, had sexually harassed one of the mayor’s police bodyguards, and that Garcetti had allegedly witnessed the behavior and laughed it off. The allegations are the subject of a lawsuit filed against Garcetti’s administration.
Grassley said whistleblowers who have not previously spoken to the committee have spoken with his office, “presenting new allegations that must be fully investigated.” In addition, Grassley noted that a “purportedly independent investigation” into the allegations may not have been “truly independent,” and that the report has not been made public.
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