Well-Connected Pair May Have Acted as Public Agents in Shady Deal

Mike Madigan, a consultant and former policy director to Mayor Pete Wilson, and Paul Nieto, former president of EastLake Co., netted over a half-million dollars selling a duplex to the San Diego Community College District. The City Attorney (and perhaps the District Attorney) are looking into allegations of fraud: that the pair misrepresented themselves as agents of the district to the original seller.

A district official who knew, but did not intervene, suddenly retired.   Nieto has resigned from the Airport Authority. No one has yet said the transaction itself was illegal.

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• Tanya Mannes , San Diego Union-Tribune.