SAN DIEGO (AP) – A former state gambling commissioner who retired in December after six years regulating California’s gaming industry opened a gaming consulting business four days after her term ended.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Monday that Tiffany Conklin says she won’t have contact with her former colleagues at the California Gambling Control Commission. State law bans such contact for three years.
Cheryl Schmit of the watchdog group Stand Up California says the quick move to the private sector has echoes of a 2014 scandal that roiled the commission. That’s when the ex-enforcement chief Robert Lytle was accused of getting confidential information about investigations into his consulting clients from an agent still working for the state.
Conklin says unlike Lytle, she did not set up the new job while still employed by the state.
Information from: The San Diego Union-Tribune
