by Bob Walsh
The California Dept. of Tax and Free Administration is a middling-size state agency. It has 484 managerial personnel. Of that number 141 have a family or close personal relationship with one or more employees of that department. There are a total of 4,200 employees. More than 800 of them were found to be family or at least shacking up with managerial employees of that department. '
The S P B (State Personnel Board) determined in an audit that there were numerous instances in which these relationships appeared to result in favorable job treatment. A lot of these people were hired just before the end of 2012, when retirement rules changed.
It should be noted that a serious nepotism problem is what led to the downfall of the Board of Equalization, which was gutted and replaced by...wait for it...the Dept of Tax and Fee Administration.
Last year the A.G. investigated this tax agency. The media has attempted to get a copy of the report under the FOIA. The state has refused. They have stated that the report is not yet complete. They also assert the report is an attorney-client privilege document. The attorney is the A.G., the client is the Governor.
Must be nice to be able to bury the bodies and then keep people from looking for them.
2 comments:
It's not what you know, but who you know. At my old state agency it was called being in the inner circle.
When I worked for CDC the primary promotion criteria were, a) Who are you related to, b) Who are you fucking, and c) who are the people you are related to fucking. After that actual skill had something to do with promotion.
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