Neighbor Watching - Irvine Great Park - Cocaine/Embezzling CEO Edition

This...I could not believe.

Here's a guy, who pled guilty in 1989 to embezzling public funds in San Juan Capistrano to feed a cocaine habit, who was able to climb the ranks within the City of Irvine up to Public Works Director AND the CEO of the Irvine Great Parks Board, all the while the people who kept promoting him KNEW about these Convictions, even hearing about it from the San Juan Capistrano City Manager,

"Why would you put someone who had been convicted of stealing public funds in charge of a corporation that's going to be spending public funds?" said Stephen Julian, the San Juan Capistrano city manager at the time of the embezzlement."

and

"Julian, the San Juan Capistrano city manager at the time, said he called Irvine's city manager, Brady, to warn him about Bryant. If it were up to him, Julian said, he would have fired him from the analysts' job. He said he was astonished to hear that Bryant had moved up the ranks over the years, to public works director and then the Great Park chief executive officer."

Emperor Agran's quote?

"Even if he had known about the conviction, Agran said, Bryant's criminal history would have been overshadowed by his successes planning and expanding the city's transportation system."

and

"Agran said that it was not Great Park's job to investigate the chief executive's background and told The Times to call City Manager Sean Joyce and ask why Bryant was not screened. Joyce said that he thought Bryant's 22 years of city experience spoke for itself."

WOW!

At least our City Employees are accused of committing their crimes WHILE working for the City.