Her advice to the next inspector general: “Stand firm, and do not let others try to break (you) down.” The senator has introduced new legislation that grants BART’s inspector general the same oversight powers afforded to the Caltrans inspector general.īART is “probably the least effective agency I’ve worked for” when it comes to oversight, said Richardson, who previously worked as Palo Alto’s city auditor along with positions in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Washington state. Richardson, who was tasked with investigating fraud and waste at the transportation agency, announced her resignation this week. BART’s inspector general Harriet Richardson, right, listens during a BART board meeting at their headquarters on Webster Street in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Steve Glazer is leading calls to tie any new BART funds to a strengthened inspector general’s office. After a long losing bout with cancer, Simon Oakland died one day after his 63rd birthday.But as BART pushes for money it says will stave off drastic service cuts, Richardson’s departure underscores deep division on providing enhanced oversight at the agency. Within a five-year period, he was a regular on four series: Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Toma, Black Sheep Squadron and David Cassidy, Man Undercover. Far busier on television than in films-he once estimated that he'd appeared in 550 TV productions-Oakland was seen almost exclusively on the small screen after 1973. Conversely, Oakland played his share of out-and-out villains, notably the bigoted Officer Schrank in West Side Story (1961). And in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), he had a memorable curtain speech as a jumpy, jittery, apparently neurotic psychiatrist who turned out to be the only person who fully understood transvestite murderer Anthony Perkins. In I Want to Live (1958) for example, he played a journalist who first shamelessly exploited the murder trial of death-row inmate Susan Hayward, then worked night and day to win her a reprieve. In films from 1957, Oakland was often cast as an outwardly unpleasant sort with inner reserves of decency and compassion. Oakland's later stage credits include Light Up the Sky, The Shrike and Inherit the Wind. Far busier on television than in films-he once estimated that he'd appeared in 550 TV productions-Oakland was seen almost A former violinist, character actor Simon Oakland made his Broadway debut in 1948's The Skipper Next to God. Biography: A former violinist, character actor Simon Oakland made his Broadway debut in 1948's The Skipper Next to God.
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