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Furthermore, while all of this was occurring, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association Independent Expenditure Committee funneled $15,900 into the state treasurer's bid to get re-elected, making them one of her biggest campaign contributors. https://anaheim investigator.com/2022/02/03/ca lifornia-state-treasurer-backed-two-new-laws-to-help-santa- ana-police-union-president-increase-his-pension/ In a highly unusual move, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, under the leadership of Gerry Serrano, their president, spent approximately$2,500 in a failed effort to help then-future Councilman Avelino Valencia III get re-elected to his seat on the Central Committee of the Orange County Democratic Party in March 2020, according to campaign finance reports filed with the City of Santa Ana on July 31st of that year. https://anaheim investigator.com/2021/12/21/sa nta-ana-police-union-spent-2500-to-help-re-elect-future- councilman-to-democratic-party-centra I-committee/ Two letters The Anaheim Investigator obtained from the California Public Employees Retirement System (CaIPERS) through the public records act show that six members of the state legislature not only quietly lent their names in support of a bid by Gerry Serrano, president of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, to increase his future pension earnings, but circumstantial evidence suggests at least five of them received hefty campaign contributions in return for their efforts. https://anaheim investigator.com/2022/06/13/six-state-legislators-signed-letters-backing-santa-ana-police- union-presidents-bid-to-increase-pension/ The state of California has agreed to pay a former employee $350,000 to settle her claims that Democratic state Treasurer Fiona Ma sexually harassed her. https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/caIifornia-settles-sexual-harassment-claims-against-state- treasurer-fiona-ma/ Councilman Avelino Valencia III quietly employed Tina Arias Miller, the girlfriend of a top associate to Gerry Serrano, president of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, as a "Senior Policy Aide" https://anaheiminvestigator.com/2022/11/03/anaheim-city-councilman-quietly-employed-girlfriend-of-top- serrano-associate-as-senior-policy-aide/ Anaheim City Council Natalie Rubalcava is quietly no longer working for California Assemblyman Avelino Valencia as his district director. https://voiceofoc.org/2023/12/anaheim-city-councilwoman-natalie-rubalcava-quietly-out-as-state- assemblymans-district-director/ #AnaheimAudit 2023-133 City of Anaheim It Has Not Properly Managed Tourism-Related Contracts and Millions of Dollars in Related Funds The city entered into contracts with and disbursed more than $100 million to Visit Anaheim, and the Chamber received from both the city and Visit Anaheim more than $6 million in public funds from fiscal years 2012-13 through 2021-22. In general, we determined that the city lacked a meaningful contract monitoring process and did not properly manage the contracts it entered into with these entities, resulting in unallowable spending and unmet deliverables. https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2023-133/ The felony charge alleged Todd Ament defrauded a cannabis company by pocketing a portion of$225,000 intended to lobby Anaheim to legalize 2