The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce PAC - which received $49,000 from Disney - put $237,000 behind Sidhu. “We believe it is important to Anaheim’s future to support organizations and candidates who support business growth and the continued development of the Resort District, which helps to create jobs and ensures a strong local economy and vibrant community,” Disneyland Resort said in a statement. With Tait unable to run in 2018 because of term limits, Disneyland Resort and its allies invested more than $2 million in the pivotal campaign to elect Sidhu and secure a council majority - in addition to $300,000 from the resort opposing a ballot measure to increase the minimum wage at hospitality companies that received city subsidies.

By 2016, the resort was pouring more than $1 million into City Council elections, campaign finance records show. A confrontation over affordable housing led to the formation of the Disney-backed advocacy group Support Our Anaheim Resort Area, or SOAR.

Meanwhile, the resort’s campaign spending mushroomed from several thousand dollars in 2006. By the next year, Tait had built a majority on the council to oppose corporate tax breaks. In 2015, he opposed a vote by the council to exempt Disneyland Resort from admissions taxes for 45 years.

Though Tom Tait had been elected mayor in 2010 with the strong backing of Disneyland Resort and its allies, he surprised many when he began fighting against corporate subsidies. Neither the company nor Nocella has been accused of wrongdoing by federal authorities. The FBI described Carrie Nocella, Disneyland Resort’s director of external affairs, as one of the group’s other ringleaders “to some extent.” He was a cabal ringleader, the FBI alleged in a different affidavit, along with political consultant Jeff Flint, who has represented Disneyland Resort and the owner of the Angels.

Todd Ament, the former Anaheim Chamber of Commerce head who secretly recorded meetings with Sidhu at the direction of the FBI, agreed to plead guilty to four felonies as part of a deal with prosecutors. Sidhu resigned as mayor last month after being accused in a search warrant affidavit of a slew of misdeeds in connection with a now-dead deal for the city to sell Angel Stadium. The wide-ranging investigation includes the sale of Angel Stadium and allegations of bribery involving Anaheim’s mayor. California An FBI corruption probe revealed who really runs Anaheim.

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