“The young people who rely on community colleges are the real victims.”Īccording to the complaint, in September 2016, Pinner contracted with the School District, a state agency created by state legislation, to build a multi-building performing and media arts center on the campus of the Los Angeles Valley College campus (“the Project”). Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, called on the state legislature, the governor, and the attorney general to open an immediate investigation – “A state audit is needed after the definitive findings of wrongdoing by the arbitrator,” said Davis. “Instead of ignoring this finding by the arbitrator, the entire Board, not just the Board President, should be actively conducting an investigation of this wrongdoing by its own consultants costing taxpayers, we now know from the arbitrator’s decision, millions of dollars.” “Now we at Pinner are suing the wrongdoers/consultant and the companies they work for, to be sure they pay out of their own pockets for their wrongdoing, not the “taxpayers.” Pinner attorney, Newt Kellam, cited the misinformation in his comment to the Los Angeles Times by the Board President Gabriela Buelna, who stated “people file lawsuits.” Said Kellam: “The Board president is either willfully ignorant or has intentionally ignored the facts, which he must know, that the arbitrator selected by Pinner and the District, after an extensive 6-week binding arbitration or, in effect, a trial, found definitively that the District’s consultants had “violated their covenant of good faith and fair dealing”-i.e., acted in bad faith. Pinner Attorney calls out Board President Buelna for misleading comment Ballet from JAMS, one of the most prestigious arbitration organizations in the nation comprised of many senior retired judges, selected by both Pinner and the School District, “found multiple management failures by college consultants.” The arbitrator’s finding includes the statement that this conduct violated California’s “implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing” – i.e., bad faith. The Times also reported the factual findings of an arbitrator, Deborah S. Valley college theater, project lawsuit alleges.” The Times headlined the story: “Corruption and fraud besets long-delayed L.A. The law suit was reported in a major front page story in California news section by the Los Angeles Times this morning. Strauss, and Gig Pukprayura (the “Racketeers”) in Los Angeles County Superior Court. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pinner Construction (“Pinner”), a century-old Southern California construction firm, today filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Community College District (the “School District”) and its construction project consultants, alleging fraud, corruption, and racketeering conduct surrounding the construction of the School District’s performing and media arts center, following the findings of a prestigious arbitrator that the District “consultants” were guilty of bad faith and wrong doing.Īlong with the School District, Pinner filed suit against DACM Project Management, QDG, Inc., ARCADIS U.S., Inc., Jacobs Engineering Group, Kevin Tyrell, Mark W.
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