Former HB City Manager Charged With Securities Fraud
Posted by: Jubal | 04/07/2008 5:05 PM
Speaking of Huntington Beach...Michael Uberuaga, who was Surf City's city manager for several years before assuming that role for San Diego in 1997, was charged today by the SEC with securities fraud charges:
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2008 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed securities fraud charges against five former San Diego city officials who played key roles in the city's inadequate municipal securities disclosures in 2002 and 2003. The SEC charged the former officials for failing to disclose to the investing public buying the city's municipal bonds that there were funding problems with its pension and retiree health care obligations and those liabilities had placed the city in serious financial jeopardy.You can read the rest of the story here
The SEC's complaint, filed in federal district court in San Diego, charges former City Manager Michael Uberuaga, former City Treasurer Mary Vattimo, former Auditor & Comptroller Edward Ryan, former Deputy City Manager of Finance Patricia Frazier, and former Assistant Auditor & Comptroller Teresa Webster.

