Plaintiff points to muddled bookkeeping, disputed expert testimony and unexplained transfers

Oct 8, 2026

Counsel for the plaintiff said financial documents were "muddled," an expert disagreed with the city's accounting, and press and police statements (including a reported $25,000 weekend deposit) create factual disputes about where beach revenues flowed.

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Marienfeld told the court the financial record is unclear and that the plaintiff's expert disagreed with the city's expert about whether beach revenues flowed into the general fund or were confined to beach operations. He said the finance director and a deputy who wrote checks could not fully explain a roughly $600,000 transfer cited in briefing.

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