One of the probes into Pedal Ahead is a criminal case opened by the California Department of Justice, records show
Ed Clancy, Bob Filner’s former campaign manager, helped secretly record conversations with three people who have been charged in a campaign finance scandal. Photographed in 2013. The operator of an electric bike program aimed at reducing car trips and greenhouse gas emissions is the subject of at least three investigations, including a criminal probe being conducted by the California Department of Justice.
A spokesperson for the state air board declined to comment on the internal investigation but said in a statement that Pedal Ahead was awarded $10 million in 2022. Additional records obtained by the Union-Tribune show that criminal investigators from the Department of Justice are looking at Pedal Ahead’s business practices, specifically how it spent at least some of the millions in public funds it has been awarded in recent years.The Pedal Ahead chief executive is Edward Clancy, a 56-year-old Lakeside man who previously worked as a local political consultant and even ran former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s 2012 campaign.
“We delivered up to a certain point — the product, the bikes, tracking mechanisms, etc.,” he said. “There was a point where they said ‘OK, we’re going to manage the contract from this point.’”Earlier this year, it notified participants that it had begun managing the program. A spokesperson said only that the Pedal Ahead agreement was “under review.”
“The final reporting is due in August,” he told the Union-Tribune. “We are waiting to hear from SANDAG.” The board subsequently boosted state e-bike funding to $31 million, according to the agency’s website, but officials declined to say whether Pedal Ahead were in line to manage all of that spending.
Rider Safety Visibility quickly attracted significant contributions, reporting just over $605,000 in revenue for 2020 alone. Records show $600,000 of that income came directly from government contracts. Clancy claimed no salary in 2022, the year state officials announced his nonprofit would run the $10 million e-bike program.In February 2023, Clancy signed a state disclosure under the penalty of perjury that his entity collected $288,535 in 2022 and spent the same amount.
“Funding is in a money market account, per contract requirement to yield interest that goes back into the program,” he said by email. “To date there is an additional approximate $34,000 earned. There will be an additional filing this year, will share when that is done.”
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