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While sex scandals have rocked the Santa Ana and Orange County governments in recent years, both continue to allow managers to date people they supervise and whose promotions they oversee. But new policies are in the works, officials say.
Carlos Bustamante, the former county public works executive who was convicted of sex crimes, had his pension cut Monday by a unanimous vote of the Orange County Employees Retirement System board.
The board of the Orange County Employees Retirement System is scheduled to vote Monday on whether to dock the pension benefits of former county public works executive Carlos Bustamente because of his sex crimes.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved settlements totaling $1 million with two female county workers who accused the former county executive and Santa Ana councilman of sexually assaulting them.
Former Orange County Public Works executive and Santa Ana City Councilman Carlos Bustamante is serving his one-year sentence at Montebello City Jail, a private facility where inmates pay to serve their sentence away from the general prison population.
Former OC Public Works Director Jess Carbajal alleges county supervisors used him as a scapegoat to cover up their own mismanagement of investigations into Carlos Bustamante’s sex crimes.
Supervisors Todd Spitzer and Andrew Do asked that former county executive Carlos Bustamante’s pension be retroactively reduced due to his guilty pleas to sex crimes against county employees.
Former Santa Ana City Councilman and Orange County executive Carlos Bustamante will turn himself in and begin serving a one-year jail sentence for various sexual crimes on Feb. 26.
Carlos Bustamante — a former Orange County Public Works executive and one-time rising star in the local GOP — pled guilty late Friday morning to sex crimes and grand theft of public funds. He is expected to serve jail time.
As county supervisors get set to approve a ballot proposal establishing a countywide ethics commission, a political watchdog acknowledges the final version differs from her first proposal but says she’s happy with “90 percent of the loaf.”