By Joe Eskenazi : missionlocal – excerpt
Second ex-DBI employee accused of taking a loan from a developer and then handling his projects — Mission Local tracks down his identity
The office of the Controller today released the seventh of nine eventual reports on city dysfunction and corruption — and, today, it was the Department of Building Inspection’s turn in the barrel.
The 56-page report tosses around terms like “nepotism,” “cronyism,” and “corruption — and that’s just on page 3. All told, the report read like a medley of the issues Mission Local has been focusing on, including the troubled projects at 555 Fulton and 2867 San Bruno, the saga of disgraced former senior inspector Bernie Curran — and the Department of Building Inspection’s disorganized electronic tracking system, which is rife with opportunities to alter or even delete files.
As the controller’s report put it today:
The department’s permitting and inspection system lacks system controls to ensure completed data is entered into the system and to prevent inappropriate after-the-fact changes to recorded inspection records…(more)