Grand Jury Doesn't Buy Calvert's Land Sale Story
Posted by Brandon English
July 5, 2007
DCCC Press:
Representative Ken Calvert (R-CA) has maintained that his purchase of public land from the Jurupa Community Services District was legal. This week the Riverside County grand jury that has been investigating the case found that the sale of public land to Calvert, with a no-bid contract, violated state law.
"Representative Ken Calvert is a land developer first – he put his business’ profits before a public park for his constituents," said Jennifer Crider, Communications Director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Representative Calvert needs to come clean and reveal whether he sought preferential treatment in securing a no-bid contract to purchase the land? Whether he used his influence as a Member of Congress to purchase this public land? Whether his Congressional office had any role in the land deal?"
Background
In 2005, Representative Ken Calvert and investment partners in Calvert Properties purchased four acres of public land in a no-bid contract from the Jurupa Community Services District for $1.2 million in order to build self-storage units. Calvert owns a one-third stake in the property. [Riverside Press-Enterprise, 8/18/06]
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