A man who served as an unpaid communications advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during her primary election campaign was now working as a consultant for the company whose massive Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse burned for over a week last month, according to a report Saturday.<\/p>\n
Yusef Robb is working as a crisis communications consultant for Lineage Logistics, the digital local news outlet L.A. Material reported Saturday. He runs tk\/Communications \u201cto create and communicate stories,\u201d according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Robb began working for the company on June 19, two days after the building erupted in flames, according to L.A. Material.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for Bass noted that Robb was never hired as a city employee for Bass and that he has not communicated with her on behalf of Lineage, L.A. Material reported.<\/p>\n
Boyle Heights residents have been critical of Bass for the city\u2019s handling of the fire and its aftermath, and during a Thursday night community meeting, she was booed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who served as an unpaid communications advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during her primary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[124784,12858,15155,15726,48,52,51,150259,47,50,49,4415,3729,94134],"class_list":["post-396271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-advisor","tag-bass","tag-consulting","tag-former","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lineage","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mayor","tag-report","tag-unpaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}