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Deputy mayor Stonewall

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Deputy mayor Troy Edwards, who appears to be caught up in the investigations of corruption swirling through City Hall, is the subject of a man-in-the-news story on the front page of this week's L.A. Business Journal. How sensitive is the subject for Mayor Hahn? His press spokeswoman denied even having a bio of Edwards, who is Hahn's deputy for the airports and harbor and had been the mayor's point man on the huge Departrment of Water and Power. Edwards himself refused to cooperate with the paper.

Edwards testified last week before the county grand jury that is apparently looking into whether Hahn's commissioners demand campaign contributions and other favors from companies that want to do business with the airport and other city departments. The story is free on the LABJ site. Also on the front page and available on the site is a piece (also by Amanda Bronstad) that says momentum is swinging in favor of a City Council ban on fundraising by commissioners.

Update: Rick Orlov's politics column in the Daily News adds today that when the LABJ began asking for Edwards' bio, all the staff bios vanished from the official Hahn website. If so, the third floor in City Hall is getting awfully jumpy...and giving reporters lots of reason to suspect the worst.


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