Pasadena Sun
Two Pasadena City College administrators facing a bribery probe were operating a company together without the school’s knowledge and may have been doing business with firms they hired to work on campus, according to college officials.
Richard van Pelt and Al Hutchings, the school’s top financial executive and its facilities supervisor, have been on leave since investigators with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Public Integrity Division seized documents and computers from their homes and offices June 7.
Van Pelt and Hutchings have jointly operated a company called Sustainagistics LLC since Jan. 29, 2010, according to the California Secretary of State. Records describe Sustainagistics as an import logistics firm based out of van Pelt’s Altadena home.
