Two influential Capital Public Radio leaders skirted guardrails intended to fortify the nonprofit against ethical lapses and steered $1.1 million in contracts to a former board treasurer’s company.
Bill Yee, then-CapRadio’s board treasurer, initiated a conversation in 2018 to secure a deal to supply the station’s new headquarters with furniture from his company. He emailed Jun Reina, then CFO and COO, to ask if they could bypass the formal process for bidding on a project, known as a request for proposal, or RFP.
“Is there any way we can avoid a formal RFP process?” Yee emailed Reina in April 2018…