Assemblyman Avelino Valencia (D-Anaheim), a former Anaheim city councilman, is asking the California State Legislature to approve an urgent state audit of his hometown after an independent investigation, released July 31, found evidence of potential criminal conspiracy and theft of public funds.
The assemblyman’s request, sent Aug. 3, asks a joint legislative audit committee to review public funds the city dispersed to the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce and Visit Anaheim—a tourism marketing nonprofit—named in the $1.5 million report by the JL Group, a Laguna Niguel workplace investigative firm retained by the Anaheim City Council after a recent FBI probe into former city officials.
