BURBANK : Grand Jury Seeks Airport’s Records
A Los Angeles County grand jury has ordered at least one Burbank Airport official to appear in court June 15 and turn over detailed financial information ranging from credit card receipts to written policies on how commissioners spend the airport’s money, according to a copy of a subpoena obtained by The Times.
The four-page subpoena outlines the specific documents that the jury seeks to review in response to allegations that commissioners of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority have misused public funds.
While the district attorney’s office has declined to say what prompted the subpoena, the jury’s action comes nearly a year after Burbank City Councilman Ted McConkey formally complained of numerous free perks regularly provided to commissioners’ wives during airport-related business trips.
Items that the grand jury wants are expense reports and receipts for all nine of the Airport Authority’s commissioners, their families and staffs since 1992, and any other evidence of “payments of any kind by the Airport Authority, for any expense claimed or incurred.”
The grand jury also requested copies of the commission’s policies and bylaws related to raising and spending public funds by airport officials, employees, officers and directors.
The subpoena does not name the officials but orders the airport’s custodian of records to appear in the Downtown Criminal Courts Building at 8:30 a.m. June 15.
Airport spokesman Victor Gill said the authority has no such designated position, but will, nonetheless, have a representative appear in court.
“We will be responsive according to legal counsel advice,” Gill said.
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