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Beats government work

By Patrick McGreevy
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Jumping ship from the Schwarzenegger administration for the private sector has paid handsomely for Mike Genest. The governor’s former budget chief was paid $25,000 by the California Tribal Business Alliance to produce a seven-page letter on the financial implications of legalizing Internet poker, according to an alliance spokesman. That comes to $3,571 a page.

--Patrick McGreevy in Sacramento

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Patrick McGreevy

Patrick McGreevy covered the California Legislature out of the Sacramento bureau until 2021. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1998 and worked in the City Hall and San Fernando Valley bureaus, writing about subjects including Valley secession, LAPD reform and city government during the administrations of Mayors Richard Riordan, James Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa. He is a native of San Diego and a graduate of San Jose State University.

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