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Sebastian Rucci - The Story the Media Won't Tell You The headlines write themselves. A nightclub raid in Youngstown. An FBI seizure in California. A
A Desert Sun investigation revealed CCV demanded $83 million from a Lithium Valley developer to drop CEQA opposition. The IVDC federal lawsuit alleges
The IVDC is in unincorporated county land. The City of Imperial filed suit anyway, spent taxpayer money, and lost. The appeal continues. Imperial resi
The federal lawsuit names Z-Global — a consultancy with deep IID ties — as having a financial motive to block the IVDC's access to the IID grid. IID r
The standard rule for understanding political opposition: follow the money. The IVDC opposition has financial motives that have nothing to do with pro
When non-profit organizations derive revenue from CEQA lawsuit settlements, they have a financial interest in the existence of development projects —
When CEQA lawsuits become a revenue mechanism, every major development project pays a toll. Imperial Valley cannot afford to let that toll determine i
The federal lawsuit identifies Katherine Burnworth as the alleged architect of the IVDC obstruction campaign. She is a city council member. The projec
The Desert Sun documented that CCV's Luis Olmedo demanded $83 million from a Lithium Valley developer. That demand reframes every subsequent CCV invol
The federal lawsuit alleges that Imperial City Manager Dennis Morita pressured El Centro to rescind the water agreement that would have made the IVDC'
