Local News in Brief : School Board Head Sued
Los Angeles Unified School District board President Rita Walters has been sued for $10.7 million by a community relations subcontractor who accused her of scuttling his bid for a contract that was awarded to her former campaign manager.
Elvin Moon, 40, president of E.W. Moon Inc., a business consulting firm, accused Walters in the Superior Court suit of pressuring a contractor into dropping him from a $2.8-million job because he had embarrassed Mayor Tom Bradley at a fund-raiser during his 1986 gubernatorial campaign.
He also accused her of slander for saying he did not have the “right approach” for community work and is “unreliable.”
At a news conference, Moon alleged that Walters abused her office by insisting that a contractor use a consulting firm from her own preferential list that included her former campaign manager, Felicia Bragg, who ended up getting the subcontracting work.
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