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Grand jury report raps Imperial Irrigation District over practices

Posted by: Maven on July 1, 2009 at 5:43 am

From MyDesert.com:

Imperial County’s civil grand jury criticized the Imperial Irrigation District’s management and policies in a new report. “Our investigation has been unable to identify a clear chain of command; (and) the budgets and policies of the IID are so labyrinthine that they tend to bog down into a bureaucratic mess,” a portion of the grand jury report states.

IID officials sharply defended the agency, noting several inaccuracies in the grand jury report and calling its nonspecific allegations of corruption “sinister.” “It’s a very vague report — there’s not a lot of substantive items to respond to,” said IID legal counsel Jeff Garber.

IID responded to the corruption reference in the report:

“If evidence exists of corruption at IID, it has not been shared with the district or included in this document,” the agency’s response states. “To employ such a term in the preparation of its final report is, at best, careless and imprecise; at worst, it is reckless and impugns the integrity of an organization that has served the public interest for nearly a century.”

The grand jury investigation is ongoing. Read more from MyDesert.com by clicking here. You can read IID’s 11-page response by clicking here.

July 1, 2009 · Filed Under Imperial Valley

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