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The Rich Relationship of Sweetwater Union and Seville Group Inc.
Quote from the end of the article: In a statement in July 2011, Yehudi Gaffen of Gafcon, Inc, a company that also does program management, told the Reader about his experience with contract bidding in Sweetwater: “We were selected by a handpicked, blue-ribbon panel to be the program manager for Proposition O, and then we were unselected by Gandara.” Gaffen went on to liken the construction culture in the South Bay to “Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s.” Unbelievable chutzpah out of Gafcon and Yehudi Gaffen specifically. He understands the culture because it is his standard operating procedure. Check his record of political contributions and check how much money he has pulled out of projects like The Orange County Great Park in Irvine and for several Community College Districts. At the OCGP, Gaffen took millions of dollars out of the project with questionable deliverables, didn't pay somesubs, and gave lots of the cash back to local politicians to keep the pay coming in...— January 9, 2012 11:02 a.m.