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ILUS GP US, LLC c/o Feinberg Mudd Brandt&Klein,LLI' I 12424 Wilshfte.Boulevard. I Los Angeles,California 90025 October 24,2013 3' tlr-tram�mttil Sonia R. Carvalho, Esq. City Attorney of the City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza,M-29 Santa Ana, California 92701 Re: Theft of Planning Commission Files Dear Ms.Carvatho: I am writing to you as a manager of Ilus GP US, LLC. 1 write to report the apparent theft of official City Records from the files of the City Planning Commission. On Monday, October 14,2013,I attended the Santa.Ana Planning Commission Hearing to provide my valid objections to agenda item number 4, The 301 Project as proposed by applicant and purported developer Ryan Ogulnick and his associate/partner, Robert Bisno. As required, I completed a Request to Speak Before Planning Commission Card ("Speaker Card"), after which I voiced concerns similar to those advanced by other attendees. When I contacted Planning Commission to ensure they retained my contact information and Speaker Card,Martha Ramirez advised me she had "gone through both files (ZOA/SPR)and did not locate [rny] speaker card." In speaking with Ms.Ramirez, she advised me that someone removed the card from the Planning Commission's files. I have reason to believe the individual(s) who removed my Speaker Card from the City's files was none other than Developer Ogulnick and/or his agents or representatives. If true, this would constitute a deliberate attempt by Developer Ogulnick to circumvent the City's measures for preserving its records inviolate, and an apparently successful effort by Developer Ogulnick to gain access to, and then alter, the City's files so as to erase certain evidence of my valid objections to his proposed project from the public record. Moreover, public records show that Developer Ogulniek and his representatives have been lavishing gifts and unreported benefits to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars on members of the Santa Ana City Council. This creates the clear appearance of a quid pro quo between the developer and the City of Santa Ana itself, in which the developer has been granted extraordinary access to the City's files and records in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments and gifts,sonic of which have been unreported. It is particularly troubling, and quite simply not plausible, that an ordinary individual could remove information from the City's files with such ease. ra This theft of City property should not be tolerated, nor can the City of Santa Ana, or the City Attorney tolerate an applicant seeking to silence a speaker with valid objections by cutting the City off from contacting that individual (here, me), from being contacted by the Planning Commission or staff concerning comments and concerns raised regarding The 301 Project, ti. 1