Public employees’ work-related email and text messages sent on their personal devices through their private accounts are public records.
Brendan O’Reilly and Rob Sims cozy up before the agenda item is rammed through
Hangar 21’s Rob Sims and Fullerton Airport manager Brenden Oreilly sit next to each other during a council meeting where the council voted Air Combat USA out of The Fullerton Airport and voted to turn Mike Blackstone’s hangar into a nightclub.
It has been a long and winding road to get rid of a long time tenant at the airport and make room for Sims’s business. According to Mike Blackstone of Air Combat USA, it has been one riddled with crooked deals, lies and potentially criminal behavior. He has filed a lawsuit against the city for Breach of Contract.
One of the exhibits in the lawsuit is the text messages (click the screen shots below) between a city employee, namely the airport manager, Brendon Oreilly, and a La Habra reserve narcotics officer Rob Sims, who leases two helicopters for his aviation business that he wants to expand into an event business (read that nightclub on the tarmack)
At issue are allegations that City officials intentionally lied to Mike Blackstone about the lease renewal date in the wake of his father’s death and an ongoing mutiny inside his company.
Here are more text messages (click the screen shot below)
Fullerton Public Works director Don Hoppe
Public works director Don Hoppe allegations made in the lawsuit, one such allegation is that Don Hoppie intentionally lied to Mr. Blackstone about the terms of his lease.
Fullerton City Attorney Dick Jones
Among the allegations made in the lawsuit, one such allegation is that the city attorney’s office intentionally lied to Mr. Blackstone about the terms of his lease as well.
Here is the alleged timeline of the events that led up to the lawsuit. (click on the screen shot below)
The Trial begins in January of 2018. We will keep you posted.
#1 by Anonymous on January 3, 2018 - 8:55 am
Dissapointing! I was looking forward to something juicy. These texts turn up a whole lot of nothing. In fact it’s beginning to look more and more like this manager is actually on the up and up. Damnit. Oh well…what’s next?