LAT:
At the new packaging coalition, one lobbyist is [], the former head of CalRecycle, who helped draft, negotiate and usher in the regulations for the single-use plastics bill. She left the waste agency in March 2024, and was quickly enveloped in scandal after accepting employment as executive director of the industry group representing plastics producers and packagers under the law.
An ethics complaint was filed against her in February 2025, and she left that group three months later. The state did not pursue the case.
But according to lobbying disclosures, she’s back trying to dismantle the law and since July of last year
In other LA news:
Time to get better reading glasses??!
— Elizabeth Chou (@reporterliz) September 4, 2026
Bass returns campaign donations from leaders of anti-gang nonprofit after Times inquiryhttps://t.co/R9cL0Kz6uX pic.twitter.com/aqpoUBvzi5
NEW: Justin Szlasa exposed a double-billing scandal with LA homeless services and pressed for stronger audits. He was just demoted by an appointee of Mayor Bass, without explanation.
— Nick Gerda (@nicholasgerda) September 4, 2026
One official says it's part of a “cover-up” of dysfunction at LAHSA.https://t.co/dV3s6oJKhi
When we tried to audit one of the LARGEST city homelessness programs (which happened to be under the Mayor), we got blocked & our budget cut.
— Kenneth Mejia, CPA (@kennethmejiaLA) September 5, 2026
We later received a fraud tip in that SAME PROGRAM & launched a fraud investigation which amounted to $23 MILLION & led to an arrest. 🧵 https://t.co/9a6YQzOTMH pic.twitter.com/yBlNNWyMX7