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East Coast business prospects now eyeing Downtown San Diego, nervous clients with business before the City Council, development projects perhaps being put on hold--they're all part of a big question mark looming over the city as it copes with its latest crisis the guilty verdicts of two San Diego city councilmen.
On July 18, a federal jury found then-Deputy Mayor Michael Zucchet and City Councilman Ralph Inzunza guilty of wire fraud and extortion related to charges that they accepted money in an attempt to help a strip club lobbyist repeal the "no touch" provision of the city's adult entertainment ordinance. Soon after, the councilmen tendered their resignations, leaving Inzunza's 8th District and Zucchet's 2nd District without representation as their legal counsel pursued the possibility of a new trial or an appeal.
"The minute the verdict happened, I was getting calls from clients asking what it meant," said Craig Benedetto, a partner of Benedetto and Danon Public Relations, which represents several clients with business before the city. "It is having a ripple effect all across the city. A lot of people are sitting down with their consultant teams on how to move forward."
Following the verdicts, City Councilwoman Toni Atkins was named mayor pro tern, pending a vote by the City Council this week on an interim pro tem. Only a few days before...
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