Uffer
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 – 12:50 p.m.
San Bernardino County has settled a lawsuit filed by its former chief executive Tuesday morning.
County Supervisors on a 3-2 vote agreed to pay Mark Uffer the sum of $650,000 to end a lawsuit over alleged whistle-blower retaliation.
The settlement, combined with Uffer’s previously exhausted severance package, places his post-employment compensation at more than $1 million.
Uffer also receives a six-figure annual pension from the county retirement system.
The now disposed of case was scheduled to go to trial in early April.
Uffer is reportedly in-play for a position with Prime Healthcare Services involving their contract at financially-troubled Victor Valley Community Hospital.
There is speculation that Uffer, who originally demanded $15 million, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses preparing for trial.
Uffer’s legal counsel is San Bernardino-based attorney Sanford Kassel.
Giving this creep any moneymakes me support limiting the BOS. What a pitiful outcome for all the victms of this petty tyrant
This proves what every one says: These stupid morons on the Board of Supervisors and their attorneys are INCOMPETENT! They should all be fired. All of them. That means the crook Ovitt, and Deveraux as well. He is just as bad, if not worse, than Uffer.
Well I sure can’t disagree with the above comments.
But it appears at least 3 of 2 think Uffer had more mud to sling in his truck, than they did theirs.
And no, I don’t buy the cost effect settlement argument either.
So counting attorneys fees for the county and the payout. Should be about $1.3 million total of taxpayer money to settle the poker game.
Just another chapter in the book of idiots.
Uffer is a 1%er; he deserves to work at McDonalds.
Then he can eat all the Egg McMuffinss he desires.
Watch what you say here Kenny, Uffer may be the CEO of a hospital that you will be in one day. I could just see it now, little markie, telling ACU that his health insurance won’t pay for his stay at Uffer’s hospital, and then he pulls the plug on your life support machine….
Oh, that was I dream I had last night…..
Actually Markie might find my comment a compliment if he looks outside the box. YA know, bigger truck and shovel.
The little turd deserves nothing.