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MALIBU PIER SCANDALPRESS RELEASEFebruary 28, 2004For more information: malibupierscandal.comWhistle blower Bruce Darian brings a 4 ½ billion dollar False Claims Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act and Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act lawsuit against several state agencies, state officials, county agencies, county officials, city of Malibu, Malibu officials and Pepperdine University in destroying Malibu Beach and the aquatic life from years of blatant pollution and its cover up. Malibu creek has become a “Love Canal” for toxic substances that are dumped into the creek by way of a massive sewage plant in Malibu Canyon, a massive garbage dump that sits next to the canyon allowing massive amounts of carcinogens to be dumped into the water way directly leading to Malibu Beach, which drains about 200 yards west of Malibu Pier.
The Malibu Pier being built in 1903, probably being built in 6 months time, has now taken what will be 9 years (as of January 1995 when the pier was closed) to be remodeled; and the buildings that sit on the pier are nothing more than a shell inside. There are no tables or chairs , there is no bar or kitchen equipment, there is no plumbing or electrical or drywall, nothing in the buildings after 5 full years of illegal construction on the Malibu Pier.
On Halloween weekend the Malibu Pier opened for business with a hotdog cart and a catering truck with some folding chairs on an outside deck. While the “waters were being checked” on the Malibu Pier, Malibu Beach where the pier sits was closed off to swimming due to contamination from the creek. Several signs posted by the County of Los Angeles warning that the beach is CLOSED is due in part because whistle blower Bruce Darian has sued L.A. County and others under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the False Claims Act. The graft, collusion and malfeasance that has taken place at the Malibu Pier and Malibu Beach is larger in scope than any other public works project in California. This project is similar in many ways to the “Dam Scam,” the Great Forks Dam fiasco in building the Saint Francis Dam. Because of shoddy workmanship, the dam broke, killing more than 450 people in its path. It was after a Congressional investigation that it was revealed that the Supervisor from the 5th district had talked the rest of the County Supervisors into paying $800,000.00 to the contractor for worthless equipment (eight hundred thousand in the late 20s is comparable to eighty million dollars today). The Supervisor’s “bonus” for his work was 10 percent or $ 80,000.00, this payoff ultimately led to him being sent to prison in 1932. Since the Great Forks Dam fiasco, how many other public officials have been sent to prison for willfully breaking the publics trust by accepting graft and willfully breaking the laws that are enacted to protect the public from such corrupt acts?
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RE-RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 28th, 2004
