Sunday, January 23, 2022

In case you missed it: Corruption in Arizona politics

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I know, you're as shocked as I am.

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From The Glendale Star -

Ex-school facilities board member indicted

Vernal Lee Crow of Glendale was indicted on four felony counts of conflict of interest in connection with his appointed position as a member of the Arizona School Facilities Board, according to Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

Crow is alleged to have failed to disclose his interest and his son’s interest in Red Tree Consulting LLC, a construction consulting company that benefited from three projects awarded by the SFB while Crow was a participating board member

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The press release from the office of the Arizona Attorney General is here.


Per their annual reports, Crow was not a member of the Board in 2009 but was in 2010, so I'm assuming that he was appointed by Jan Brewer.











Crow *was* part of Red Tree from its organization in 2015 (docs courtesy the Arizona Corporation Commission)













until mid-2017




















But per his bio in ASFB's annual reports, Crow was also part of Dominion Environmental, since at least 1990 (also courtesy the ACC)










until, well, *now* 


















Related entities are Dominion Environmental Consultants NV LLC and Dominion Environmental Consultants and he was a director and officer there












at least until late 2019, when it was transferred to another officer















All of which is a long-winded way of saying that this gets better.  He was a member of the ASFB when his entities received money.  I don't know if he disclosed the relationships beforehand.

From the website of the Arizona Auditor General -











From the Arizona State Procurement Office -






















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From a letter to the Glendale Union High School District from 2017 -










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From the records of the Maricopa County Superior Court -

























Based on my reading of this (which is another way of saying that this is unfamiliar), he seems to have entered a plea of not guilty and been released on his own recognizance.

From Arizona Revised Statutes, the section of law that he is alleged to have violated -
















If he's convicted on the stated charges, it'll be a class 6 felony conviction.

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