Anaheim Investigator
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The Anaheim Investigator was founded with the expressed purpose of critically examining issues that are of concern and interest to Anaheim residents.
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Damian Martin, Esq., co-founder of Catalyst Cannabis Co., an expanding retail chain of “weed stores,” told The Anaheim Investigator he wrote a ballot measure in 2021 that would have put the question of legalizing cannabis businesses before Anaheim voters. anaheiminvestigator.com/2023/05/31/co-…
Mayor Aitken not only secretly met with John Carpino, president of the Angels Baseball team, but that the meeting might have dealt with the Angel Stadium assessment. Why? It was scheduled thirty minutes before a group of consultants toured the facility. anaheiminvestigator.com/2023/06/06/pho…
An email currently in the possession of The Anaheim Investigator offers evidence suggesting Mayor Aitken might have misled journalists about the intended recipient of two city-owned tickets to a Ducks vs. Bruins game which took place at the Honda Center. anaheiminvestigator.com/2023/06/19/did…
The Investigator has reviewed 200 photos taken of a June 6th luncheon at Angel Stadium which show Mayor Ashleigh Aitken sharing a table with Laura Cunningham, president of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, and Molly Jolly, an executive for Angels Baseball. anaheiminvestigator.com/2023/08/13/ana…
The Investigator has evidence suggesting Mayor Aitken has been a longtime friend of Molly Jolly, senior VP of Finance/Administration for Angels Baseball, a relationship which appears to have been formed through their involvement in the Girl Scouts of OC. anaheiminvestigator.com/2023/10/17/evi…
The Investigator has uncovered evidence a relationship existed between Mayor Ashleigh Aitken and Carrie Nocella, the controversial Disney executive. Our inquiry discovered both women attended the same elite all-girls prep school between 1991 and 1993. anaheiminvestigator.com/2023/12/14/hid…
Carrie Nocella, a Disney executive under FBI scrutiny, serves on a Chapman University board chaired by Michael Penn, the husband of Mayor Ashleigh Aitken. She was appointed to it while Wylie Aitken, the mayor's father, was running the Board of Trustees. anaheiminvestigator.com/2024/01/02/hid…
The Anaheim Investigator has learned Disney is building a 1,400 unit affordable housing complex in Florida that will cost $351 million. Contrast that with their proposal for DisneylandForward to only give $30 million to Anaheim for affordable housing anaheiminvestigator.com/2024/02/13/dis…
Tom Daly, a lobbyist retained by SALT Development, a firm that is planning to build 498 luxury apartments, single-family estates, and commercial space on ecologically-sensitive land in Anaheim Hills, has deep ties to the family of Mayor Ashleigh Aitken. anaheiminvestigator.com/2024/08/05/top…
More than 200 photographs currently in the possession of The Anaheim Investigator show that although the Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Angel Stadium on June 7th attracted far less council members than it did back in 2023, there were more candidates. anaheiminvestigator.com/2024/08/14/ana…
The Anaheim Investigator has learned that the Democratic Foundation of Orange County, the political machine the family of Mayor Ashleigh Aitken has used to exert their influence over local politics, received money and support from The Walt Disney Company. anaheiminvestigator.com/2025/01/16/hid…
The Anaheim Investigator has evidence that Councilwoman Natalie Meeks withheld information from her public calendar to conceal the fact she met with a lobbyist hired by a company that seeks future city contracts potentially worth millions of dollars. anaheiminvestigator.com/2025/01/28/cou…
Photos obtained by The Anaheim Investigator reveal City Manager James Vanderpool not only attended a holiday party thrown by Curt Pringle & Associates, a lobbyist firm, in December 2022, but was present at other events either hosted or co-hosted by them. anaheiminvestigator.com/2025/02/07/pho…
Internal emails and other documents obtained by The Anaheim Investigator reveal city planners are exploring the option of constructing a gondola system to connect the Platinum Triangle with the Anaheim Resort in preparation for the 2028 Summer Olympics. anaheiminvestigator.com/2025/09/02/cit…
The Anaheim City Council rejected a push by the Anaheim Police Association—the union representing 400 sworn personnel employed by the city’s police department—to place a measure on the ballot that would impose a “gate tax” on Disney theme park admissions. anaheiminvestigator.com/2025/11/04/ana…
State Treasurer Fiona Ma, now running for Lt. Governor, quietly boosted Swyft Cities as it sought a loan guarantee from a bank she oversees. Records also show she tapped longtime contacts—including Anaheim City Manager James Vanderpool, to aid the firm. anaheiminvestigator.com/2026/01/27/sta…