Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 me that -- because I asked him had anyone
2 indicated to you that they -- they're aware or
3 that Ruth was aware of this difference
4 sometime back prior to Aaron disclosing it to
5 Ruth, and Robertson told me, I talked to Tony
6 Perez afterward, after this story had hit,
7 after it had gone public in response to the
8 PRA request, I talked to him, I asked him did
9 you know about this.
10 He, Perez said he did not know but
11 he had heard that there was some money out
12 there. He said he had heard -- he didn't
13 describe it as clearly succinctly as a fund
14 balance discrepancy, he just had heard that
15 there was a pot of money out there. He
16 believed that there was discussions about this
17 in the past prior to Aaron coming to the
18 department. And I asked Aaron, discussions
19 amongst whom, and Robertson said, discussions
20 among Manny Lopez, among Bill Herms, among
21 Michael Harris.
22 So we heard from one source,
23 admittedly secondhand, that Tony Perez -- have
24 you talked with anyone since this story hit at
25 Parks?
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