OAKLAND — The former executive director of the Coliseum Authority is under investigation for seeking a $50,000 fee from RingCentral for negotiating a stadium naming rights deal to rename the current home of the A’s and Raiders.
Teresa Drenick, spokeswoman for Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, on Tuesday confirmed the DA’s office has opened a probe into the $3 million contract.
“We are investigating, and I therefore cannot comment further,” Drenick said.
As executive director and CEO of the authority, McKibben may have violated a state conflict-of-interest law if he stood to benefit from a contract he helped negotiate for the public agency he oversaw, a government ethics expert told this newspaper last month.