Judge blocks L.A. City Councilmember John Lee’s suit against city Ethics Commission

Los Angeles City Council Member John Lee during the Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce 2023 State of the Valley luncheon in Universal City, September 7, 2023. A judge blocked John Lee’s lawsuit against the city’s Ethics Commission, which has accused the Los Angeles City Council member of ethical violations, but Lee was given 21 days to amend and refile his suit.

In the complaint, Lee’s lawyers argued the commission had gone over the four-year statute of limitations, however, the Ethics Commission said Lee “concealed” information about the gifts, ultimately delaying that legal provision. Enforcement Officer Kenneth Hardy at the time explained that the commission only decided on hearing officers for an evidentiary hearing, which he described as “somewhat like a trial.”

In a previous statement, the Ethics Commission said “Lee failed to publicly disclose those gifts on the California statement of economic interests that he was required to file when he left city service, and he never amended the form to disclose the gifts when he ran for Council District 12 in 2019 and 2020.”

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