"Commissioner Christopher McVoy, who opposed the Greater Bay deal before he was elected, cast the only vote against settling the lawsuit and the related budget amendment.
“We’ve been taken to the cleaners because we didn’t do our due diligence up front,” McVoy said, referring to the city’s lack of knowledge about the Greater Bay Group before the casino ground lease and development agreement were signed in 2006.
Joslyn said false statements made about the Greater Bay project by former city commissioners Cara Jennings and Suzanne Mulvehill, who opposed it, hurt the city’s chances of winning the case."