Void the Angel Stadium sale and preserve all evidence related to its negotiations—that’s what the City of Anaheim is asking Angels baseball team owner Arte Moreno and his company SRB Management to do.
City Attorney Robert Fabela sent a formal letter to Moreno’s attorney on May 25, saying the city’s original 2020 agreement with the baseball team “was not a good faith, arm’s length transaction.”
Anaheim city officials approved the sale of the 150-acre stadium site to SRB Management in December 2019 for $320 million.
But an FBI affidavit came to light May 16 accusing former Mayor Harry Sidhu, who resigned May 24, of sharing confidential information regarding negotiations of the Angel Stadium sale with representatives of the Angels—with the expectation of receiving a sizeable contribution to his reelection campaign….