State controller owes $169K to Industry for withholding records of developer’s involvement in audit

State Controller Betty Yee’s office has been ordered to pay $169,000 in fees to the City of Industry’s attorneys to resolve a public records act lawsuit alleging the state agency audited the city as a political favor for a developer with an ax to grind.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge determined that while the Controller’s Office eventually complied with the city’s records requests, it only did so as a result of the lawsuit and, as such, should have to pay the fees, ac