Quincey
By Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/25/2012 11:43:51 AM PDT
Updated: 10/25/2012 06:18:05 PM PDT
UPLAND – Before filing criminal charges last week, investigators with the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office interviewed officials about former City Manager Robb Quincey’s statements during an arbitration hearing with the city and a settlement he made with a police sergeant. Quincey, 52 of Upland, has been charged with three felonies including, misappropriation of public funds, gaining personal interest from an official contract and perjury.
He has denied the charges and will plead not guilty during his arraignment on Dec. 20 in West Valley Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga, said Michael Zweiback, Quincey’s attorney.
“He looks forward to the opportunity to finally get a chance to address these allegations which he hasn’t had a chance to do,” Zweiback said.
The arrest warrant in his arrest, includes interviews with former City Attorney William Curley; City Manager Stephen Dunn, Executive Assistant to Quincey and Dunn, Colleen Sendldorfer; Councilman Ken Willis; the city’s attorney in Quincey’s arbitration case against the city and the two court reporters during the arbitration.
Dunn, who was the city’s finance director, said the interview was similar to one conducted by the FBI a couple years ago and during the arbitration.
“It was a rehashing of the same things about the settlement and authority and who approved what and things of that sort,” he said.
Quincey was terminated by the City Council in May 2011 for failing to disclose that he settled a draft claim emailed to him by the police union attorney, Dieter Dammeier, on behalf of then-Upland police Sgt. John Moore.
Moore’s claim accused Quincey and other former city officials of harassment and passing him over for promotion because he refused to destroy a police report he took in 2008 during a domestic incident involving Quincey and a girlfriend.
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If he had kept his mouth shut on the day the FBI raided City Hall, he would more then likely still be in his job.
@ Sgt That’s a sad statement if I ever heard one.
@OnTheDole – Just saying, not agreeing it’s right.
There’s an old saying in law enforcement:
“Your badge will get you pussy and pussy will get your badge”.
In this case we could replace “badge” with “position of authority”…..
@ Sgt I understand the “badge” and “cooze” deal. My point being, if he had kept his mouth shut he’d still have a job. Sad. Very sad.
The Sentinel article sheds a lot of light on this situation… way to go Mark G. w/ the San Bernardino County Sentinel!!!
Really doubt he could have still been on the job now though, because it got too hard to keep everything quiet concerning his exceeding his authority and thereby misappropriating public funds to keep his settlement w/ the UPD officer out of public view and paying DD over $50K when his max-yearly limit as CM was only $25K.
The crazy thing was his filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit against the City of Upland for over $5M!
LSW and OTD – I did read the Sentinel article this morning, and according to the article Quincey’s e-mails were not being looked into. After he spoke to the City Attorney on the day of the raid by the FBI and IRS was the turning point for him. The City Attorney had a duty and obligation as an officer of the court to report to law enforcement the discussion that he had with Quincey. It appears that the warrant that the FBI and IRS had didn’t have Quincey’s name on it. More than likely, none of Quincey’s e-mails were downloaded and given to the FBI.
Now does this badge thing work in other employment positions?
I would like a few badges.
#7 Now you’re talkin!
Q is such a freak, he might really think he’s innocent. Maybe he will try the insanity defense.
@ 7 Working musicians, athletes, actors, apparently city managers, and guys with expensive cars and lot’s of money who may or may not be gainfully employed. I could go on but that’s your basic list. Good luck.
OTD – You forgot another group, Good-looking guys like me…… lol
Let’s not forget people in uniform too…
To quote from the Bogart movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”