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The less fortunate Hubbard, the more fortunate Mauk
The Orange County Register reported on January 24 that a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury, to quote the article, “found Jeffrey Hubbard, former Superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District, guilty of felony misappropriation for giving pay raises worth more than $20,000 to a favored employee while he was Superintendent.” According to the article Hubbard was acquitted on a charge involving a second employee.
The article says he could face up to five years in prison as a result of this conviction. The Newport-Mesa School District here in Orange County quickly terminated his Superintendent job there after this conviction.
Compare this case to the well publicized case last year in Orange County government where an audit found that the County Executive Officer (CEO) has selectively bestowed sizeable raises on some favored employees in apparent violation of the county’s own personnel rules. The audit report described the employees in the County Human Resources department as demoralized by the CEO’s orders. The audit prompted the Board of Supervisors to delve more deeply into just what has been going on, with the result that at least some of the raises were partly or totally undone and the Board adopted new rules apparently intended to limit the CEO’s ability to grant such sizeable raises in the future.
So, in LA County a high level public official is tried and convicted for unlawful activity involving handing out a large pay raise to at least one favorite. In Orange County government what appears to be a similar exercise in favoritism with public funds is apparently not viewed as a criminal act. Or, perhaps a criminal investigation is under way and we will hear more later.
*What do you get for $25,000 nowadays? You might have to ask Herman Cain or Newt
Gingrich to get the right answer! Hey, the guy was 54 years old and had a family….what do you want him to do…..be perfect?
One more thing…..It wasn’t “his money”….it was District money…so who cares? Isn’t that what Government money is supposed to be for………priming the pump?
Mauk dished out a 33% raise in ONE instance alone, and gave it to him retroactively, which resulted in a near $100K bonus check of public funds to my math. Where is the outrage! The Board of Supervisors took 11% of the raise away, but was the retro check returned? The AG needs to come down and audit this whole mess and we will see some charges against Mauk et al.