Riordan to Announce Fate of Beleaguered Aide Next Week
Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said Friday that he will not have a decision on the fate of beleaguered top aide Michael Keeley until the middle of next week.
Riordan said the city’s Ethics Commission is expected to conclude its review of Keeley’s conduct then, and the probe by the mayor’s office also should be done by then.
Ethics Commission officials could not be reached for comment.
Keeley, an attorney and longtime friend of Riordan, has been the 3-year-old administration’s top gun in the mayor’s efforts to reshape City Hall into a less costly, more efficient operation while finding money for an ambitious Police Department expansion.
The disclosure three weeks ago that Keeley had secretly sent confidential city legal documents to attorneys on the other side of a contract dispute rocked City Hall and set off calls for the aide’s ouster. Keeley said his purpose was to try to head off costly litigation and he believed that he had the authority to share the material, but he acknowledged making “errors in judgment.”
Riordan has said he will decide what to do once the investigations are finished.
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