The last unresolved ethics complaint from a spate of seven filed against Gilbert council members during the summer has expanded since it was filed and now includes a recording of a prominent landowner wondering if a council member is extorting him.
The recording is of a phone call April 14 between landownwer Jeff Cooley and Mayor Brigette Peterson. It is a follow-up call to an email Cooley sent to the mayor April 13 in which he wrote that the District at Cooley Station project had been threatened by one or more unnamed council members before a scheduled April 18 vote.
Cooley owned the land proposed for the project, which is being done by Kaplan Multifamily.
