Resident alleges threatening remark and a purchase offer by councilmember; Wapner denies being named in subpoenas

During public comment, Mary Anne Hanuna said she and her brother invested millions in a downtown property and recounted a meeting with a councilmember in which she said he told her, 'I know exactly where that is... I've been telling them to shut you down for months' and later, "it's going to be harder to shoot you up close now that I've met you." She said the councilmember then asked whether she would sell the building to him. Hanuna described the remarks as a physical threat and asked the council for accountability and transparency.

Councilmember Wapner (addressed in the meeting as the mayor pro tem and the councilmember whose home was searched) spoke later in the meeting and disputed some characterizations. He told the council that subpoenas served to the airport and city did not reference him and said he had not been named a suspect, target or subject of any investigation. "I've never been named a suspect, a subject, a target of any investigation," he said. He also described his long tenure representing the city on regional boards and warned that abrupt removal could disrupt regional negotiations.

The council did not take formal action on Hanuna's account during the meeting. The city attorney also corrected an inaccurate public claim that 'City Hall was served with a search warrant,' saying instead that the city had not been searched, though the airport had been served with a federal subpoena, according to a councilmember's remarks. The allegation Hanuna raised is a public accusation recorded in the meeting and remains unresolved in this transcript; the council opted to agendize consideration of related appointment changes for a future meeting rather than immediately remove any member.