An FBI agent has been poking around in southern California looking at a lawsuit over land bought by a group including Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Friday. But Calvert says he has not been contacted by the FBI and the dispute that is the subject of the lawsuit has nothing to do with his group.
The Press-Enterprise reported:
Dan Rodriguez, general manager of the Jurupa Area Recreation and Park District, said an agent contacted him in early August. …Rodriguez said the agent came by the park district office and asked to be updated on the lawsuit the agency has filed against the Jurupa Community Services District, which sold the land to the Calvert partnership.
“He wanted a status report on what was going on,” Rodriguez said. “He took some notes and off he went.” …
The lawsuit, filed in August 2008, accuses the community services district of fraud and deceit in connection with the 2006 sale of the 4 acres to Stadium Properties, the partnership that includes Calvert, R-Corona.
The suit alleges that the sale of the land was illegal because the community services district did not first notify other agencies about the sale.
Calvert, who has previously been accused of benefiting from his position in Congress on a different land deal, told the Los Angeles Times:
“We are in the middle of this thing. If they want to pay us what we put into it, then they can have the land.”
And of the FBI, he added, “If they want to depose me they can depose me. I have nothing to hide.”