LOS ANGELES – A council aide to Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price is seeking to settle ethics violations for failure to disclose income received from his consulting business.

Jose Ugarte will be fined $17,500 by the City’s Ethics Commission failure to disclose nearly $400,000 in income from his consulting business.

According to the filing disclosed on the City’s Ethics Commission website:

On July 2, 2013, Ugarte became a Council Aide III for Curren Price, the representative on the City Council for Council District (CD) 9. Ugarte left City service on November 1, 2019, when he was a Council Aide IV, but returned to CD 9 as a Council Aide VII on May 20, 2021.

On July 11, 2018, Ugarte registered Ugarte and Associates (UA), a limited liability company, with the California Secretary o

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