TS - Payola that never was: Unsolicited $1,000 check raises ethics concerns - July 20, 2003

The Times Standard
Payola that never was: Unsolicited $1,000 check raises ethics concerns

Author:  James Faulk The Times-Standard
Date: July 20, 2003
Publication: Times-Standard (Eureka, CA)

ARCATA -- The check was not wanted and never cashed.

Those are two reasons Arcata Eye editor Kevin Hoover believes he and his reporter Hank Sims did nothing wrong when they were sent an unsolicited $1,000 check for a story on Supervisor Roger Rodoni's potential conflict of interest on issues surrounding Pacific Lumber Co.

Eye reporter Daniel Mintz, who recently quit after more than two years at the weekly paper, said the involvement of Arcata Mayor Bob Ornelas, who he said mentioned...

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Follow up - it is important to note that after all the attacks, after the filing of FPPC complaints, Roger Rodoni was cleared by the FPPC.
2/17/05 Northcoast Journal RODONI CLEARED: