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California AG will not open investigation into University of California President Janet Napolitano
Hotair ^ | 05/09/2017 | John Sexton

Posted on 05/09/2017 6:57:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Xavier Becerra, the California AG who charged the Center for Medical Progress with 15 felony counts for its undercover reporting on Planned Parenthood, will not be opening an investigation into the millions of dollars kept hidden by UC President Janet Napolitano.

An audit, which I wrote about here last month, found that Napolitano’s office amassed $175 million in reserve funds by repeatedly overestimating costs and then spending less than it claimed was needed. Meanwhile, the office was also paying salaries significantly higher than comparable workers in state government and covering lavish travel expenses.

When the auditor asked school administrators at the UC system’s 10 campuses what the Office of the President was giving them for all of this money, one of Janet Napolitano’s deputies interceded and tweaked the survey responses to make the office look much better than it was. The interference was so egregious that the auditor determined the adjusted responses could not be used to draw any conclusions.

Despite all of this, Becerra doesn’t see any reason to open an investigation. As NBC News reports, that may be because the people he would need to interview and potentially hold accountable are political allies, including Governor Jerry Brown:

Any formal investigation of the office of the UC president would likely involve questioning of the UC Regents who are responsible for fiscal oversight of the University. Many members of the board are political allies of the Attorney General including Richard Bloom, the husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Governor Jerry Brown, who appointed Becerra to his current office, as well as Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon.

Becerra said politics was not a consideration.

“I will go after any entity that is taking advantage of the California public,” he stated.

So what about the students who paid excessive tuition and fees so Napolitano’s office could amass a multi-million slush fund and pay for $300 a night hotels? What about the 10 executives who, according to the LA Times, were paid “over $700,000 more than the combined salaries of their highest paid state employee counterparts.” Finally, what about the fact that the UC system has half the students of the CSU system but more than 3 times as many administrators and 6 1/2 times the annual?

They whole thing stinks of government bloat and mismanagement, but an ambitious AG like Becerra doesn’t want to embarrass any allies as he gears up to run for the Senate (he’s rumored to be eyeing Feinstein’s seat if she retires). And yet Becerra has the nerve to claim he’ll go after anyone wasting Californians’ money. Maybe he needs to spend less time focused on Washington, DC and more time on problems at home.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; janetnapolitano; university; xavierbecerra
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1 posted on 05/09/2017 6:57:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m disgusted but not surprised.


2 posted on 05/09/2017 6:59:55 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: ssfromla

The ‘well’ of KLINTONISTAS is deep ! Kalifornicate to Myyamee...the leeches live well still !!


3 posted on 05/09/2017 7:02:27 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: SeekAndFind

Berkeley specifically and the University of California in general is going the same downward route that CCNY and the CUNY system did in the 1970’s. Within a generation they will not feature any serious scholars.


4 posted on 05/09/2017 7:03:50 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind
Too well connected to be prosecuted.

5 posted on 05/09/2017 7:07:03 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course not... she’s a democrat!


6 posted on 05/09/2017 7:07:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just more evidence of the vicious circle California is in.


7 posted on 05/09/2017 7:11:06 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: SeekAndFind

Corruption is so deep in California it would take fracking to get it all out.........................


8 posted on 05/09/2017 7:11:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are used to dem AGs being political hacks, but this goes up to the governors responsibility. She stashed money and tried to thwart the audit and he doesn’t seem to give a damn. She should have been fired then. Nice to have pots of money around state government as a slush fund.


9 posted on 05/09/2017 7:11:42 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: ssfromla

Janet Napolitano—like many leading Dims and clintonites—is a CROOK!!!!

Perhaps our good and sound Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, can find a legitimate legal reason to investigate and charge her at the Federal level!!!!


10 posted on 05/09/2017 7:12:08 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MagUSNRET

news known a week ago


11 posted on 05/09/2017 7:12:18 AM PDT by advertising guy
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To: SeekAndFind

Remind me again why we’re not supposed to be wholeheartedly supporting Calexit?


12 posted on 05/09/2017 7:13:21 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: ssfromla

I guess squashing free speech doesn’t come cheap?


13 posted on 05/09/2017 7:15:16 AM PDT by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: SeekAndFind

The UC system is rife with corruption, has been since at least 1980 from what I could see, and has always been immune to any oversight.


14 posted on 05/09/2017 7:16:18 AM PDT by Mouton (We have the best elected governments that money can buy)
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To: All

This is so brazen. The Rats have a death grip on CA. Is there no opposition party who can at least speak up?


15 posted on 05/09/2017 7:17:19 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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“The Rats have a death grip on CA.”.......

Not only in “Kalifornica”, it has spread all over this country and nobody has yet to stop it. Corruption is the name of the game, no matter where you reside. With the election of Trump, people are beginning to see to what depth said corruption has gone on both sides of the aisles and simply, “It Ain’t Pretty”.


16 posted on 05/09/2017 7:28:22 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t this why we have US Attorneys?? to Step in and Prosecute Lawless Corrupt State and Local Governments???


17 posted on 05/09/2017 7:32:11 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: SeekAndFind

"It's Libtown Jake, Forget about it.

18 posted on 05/09/2017 7:36:35 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Crime Seen
but
not a Crime Scene......

Why not?


19 posted on 05/09/2017 7:39:38 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind

Complete corruption. One Party State (CA). No - zero - accountability. Also Berkeley is turning into a dangerous place.

In fact, the violence and crime in the entire Bay Area is spinning out of control and purposely not reported in the local fake news nor by the dinosaur phony lib news nationally. It is getting scary now, constant gun fire, home invasions, attacks by Mex gangs et all. You cannot even go to a gas station now without constantly looking over your shoulder. Pot DUI and beer = constant car wreck incidents now going out of control. Any second an idiot high on pot or illegal drunk on beer can drive right into you head on. Herion now going out of control. Cops constantly in very real danger. We now have what looks like Somalis threatening us in parking lots etc. or stealing stuff from stores. It’s bad. Getting worse fast. Calif is turning into a thousand Chicagos, and constant violent attacks by BLM thug terrorists who target Chinese, Caucasians, anyone not them.


20 posted on 05/09/2017 7:44:59 AM PDT by ShivaFan
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