KUOW Pottergate Backstory, Part II
Part two of KUOW's series on the Pottergate backstory aired this morning. Again, just riveting. And again, you can read the transcript but the audio is better. More backstory in case you missed it is that one of the central early warnings was not just the Sutor Report but that the Daily Journal of Commerce, two years ago, was courted by the district itself to do a story on the Small Business Works. In doing work for the story, the reporter had found out about the Sutor Report. That, of course, changed the story. In the story, Lee Newgent, the Executive Secretary of the Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council, raised several issues among them: "Giving out work to construction firms that didn't have construction licenses, wage violations, not doing any criminal background checks [or] fingerprinting of their employees while working with children." He also stated that somewhere down the line " there are going to be criminal indic...