Jeff Gorell "Fools Gold" Update- Exporting Opportunity? Gold Team, India, and the Questions Still Unanswered

For months, readers have reached out, trying to make sense of our coverage of Ventura County Supervisor Jeff Gorell’s Gold Team. The story is evolving and complex, but as more tips surface and records requests are received, the picture is sharpening, and what we’re learning raises serious questions about how public resources were used and who benefited.

Recently obtained public records included a Gold Team slide deck shared by Gorell’s staff with the City of Thousand Oaks. The presentation outlines Gold Team’s role in “local economic development,” which, according to the slides, includes helping companies like Amgen expand their footprint abroad. India is explicitly called out as a target market, a detail that takes on new significance given Amgen’s subsequent offshoring of Thousand Oaks based jobs.

There’s more we still don’t know. What exactly was the nature of Gorell and Garcetti’s collaboration? How does the State Department view these activities with regard to cap and trade.  

We’re continuing to dig. More records are pending, and we’ll keep reporting as the story unfolds. What’s clear so far is that Gold Team’s operations deserve scrutiny, especially when taxpayer dollars and local jobs are on the line.

If you have information about Gorell, Gold Team, or the India trip, or if you lost a U.S.-based Amgen job connected to offshoring, we want to hear from you. Reach us at 805Speakeasy@gmail.com.