Months of investigation into Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee’s role in a live performance of the TV show Wild ‘N Out concluded at City Council on Tuesday, with investigators finding Lee hadn’t made money from the event — but that his participation in votes on whether to investigate himself fell in a legal gray zone.
“There is no explicit statutory law applying facts like those present here,” Steven Miller, the government ethics lawyer who wrote the investigation report, told councilmembers. “We cannot say with any certainty that the vice mayor was legally required to recuse himself.”
Miller added: “But … we think that the vice mayor should have recused himself.”…