INVESTIGATION FILE

The LaCava Files

Dossier: Joe LaCava

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The Architect Who Burned the Blueprint
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The Gatekeeper's Ledger

How San Diego's council president turned committee appointments into a plausible-deniability machine for $822,000 in developer money.

On December 17, 2025, San Diego's council president removed the one member who voted no on a favored development. Nine days earlier, his colleagues had voted him back into the chair unanimously. The committee appointment is the mechanism.
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The Landlord in the Chair
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The Measure B Machine
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