By Jon Ortiz in The Sacramento Bee

June 19, 2016

Despite earlier suggesting otherwise, state Board of Equalization member Jerome Horton now says that he and his staff were involved in selecting designer furniture for his Sacramento high-rise office that cost taxpayers $118,000 to purchase and $12,000 to install.

Internal Board of Equalization emails and other documents turned over to The Sacramento Bee under the state’s public records law indicate the same, contradicting Horton’s public and private attempts to blame agency bureaucrats outside of his office for handling the matter without his guidance. His chief of staff, Kari Hammond, also denied knowledge of the matter during an interview in April.