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A longtime employee at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is being accused of misusing her city position by the L.A. City Ethics Commission.<\/p>\n
More details: The commission alleges<\/a> Renette Anderson misused her position for personal benefit. A written determination of probable cause was issued in October.<\/p>\n Anderson is accused of asking a subordinate to take care of personal errands on city time, such as booking a flight and physical therapy appointments.\u00a0In one instance, Anderson allegedly asked a staffer she supervised to purchase Snoop Dogg & Friends concert tickets at the Hollywood Bowl and then later asked for help seeking a refund when the concert was rescheduled. The ethics commission\u2019s accusation<\/a>, dated earlier this month, alleges the ticket requests were made on city time using city resources.<\/p>\n What\u2019s next? She faces seven counts against her and potential fines.<\/p>\n Response from Anderson\u2019s attorney: In a statement to LAist, Anderson\u2019s attorney, John W. Harris, said she \u201chas an unblemished, exemplary record of service at DWP for over 23 years. The finding of probable cause doesn’t constitute a finding that the alleged violations occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n Harris added that the \u201cbaseless accusations\u201d originated from a \u201cformer disgruntled subordinate.\u201d<\/p>\n LAist’s Gillian Mor\u00e1n P\u00e9rez contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: A longtime employee at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is being accused of misusing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13538,48,42895,52,51,47,50,49,42896],"class_list":["post-76007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ethics-commission","tag-la","tag-la-dwp","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-water-and-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76007","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=76007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}