CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners on Monday decided to pay $116,579 in legal bills incurred by former airport commissioner Ted Stein, a figure in the “pay-to-play” investigation that helped end the political career of former Mayor James K. Hahn.
Stein, a private attorney who resigned from the airport commission in 2004, has been notified over the last two years that investigations of him were dropped by the U.S. attorney, the Los Angeles County district attorney and the City Ethics Commission.
Because no charges resulted, Stein sought reimbursement from the city.
The commission, which oversees Los Angeles World Airports, also approved the reimbursement of $57,426 in legal bills from three other Hahn-era airport officials, including former commissioner Cheryl Peterson and former airport executive director Kim Day.
The five-year investigation led to the conviction in July of Leland Wong, a former Hahn appointee, harbor commissioner and airport commissioner, on 14 charges of bribery, perjury, conflicts of interest and embezzlement.
He was sentenced to five years in prison in October.
-- Dan Weikel
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