By Sarah Phelan
In what could be the most ironic moment of the Ed Jew saga so far, Jew’s attorney Steven Gruel is accusing the City Attorney’s response to a recent public records disclosure request of being “woefully incomplete.”
This from the attorney of the “D4″ Supervisor, who still hasn’t been able to prove that he actually lives in the district that he is supposed to be representing at City Hall.
Gruel’s ironic accusation followed Jew’s July 11 request that the City Attorney’s office immediately disclose all communications regarding the investigation of Jew”s “official Residence or any allegations of his ‘official misconduct.'”
When Deputy City Attorney Chad Jacobs invoked an extension–citing the ‘voluminous nature” of Gruel’s request, plus the fact that other docs might be covered by “attorney work product privilege” –Gruel accused City Attorney Dennis Herrera of “skirting” the public records act request.
This from the attorney who applied for and got an extension from the City Attorney on behalf of his client not once but three times, but still failed to provide complete materials or make his client available for an interview–a request that doesn’t seem that hard given that Jew’s office is just around the corner from Herrera’s.