Over $40 million in taxpayer money may have been misspent by two nonprofits run by the LA Department of Water and Power?s union?s boss. The city controller will issue a subpoenas for Brian D?Arcy, a business manager for IBEW local 8. The subpoenas comes after months of requests from the controller?s office for financial documents and invoices from the two nonprofits: the Joint Safety Institute and the Joint Training Institute. The controller claims that because it is taxpayer dollars the organizations must held to the same standard of transparency as a government organization. Mr. D?Arcy and attorneys for the organizations disagree, believing that because the organizations are not publically held they do not need to disclose their financial records.
See "L.A. controller will subpoena financial records from DWP union chief", Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2014