‘I screwed up’: Gian-Carlo Carra speaks out on integrity commissioner’s investigation
Global News
Ward 9 Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra says he will apologize to Calgarians after the city's integrity commissioner found he didn't disclose financial interest in an Inglewood property.
Ward 9 Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra said he is going to apologize to Calgarians after he was sanctioned for not disclosing his financial interest in an Inglewood property for six years.
Calgary’s integrity commissioner, Ellen-Anne O’Donnell, investigated a complaint from 2021 and found that Carra failed to include the property on his disclosure form, which all city councillors are required to do.
“I screwed up,” Carra told Global News. “It was a paperwork ‘snafu.’ I don’t interface with that piece of paper enough.”
According to the integrity commissioner’s report, Carra and his wife made a $300,000 down payment on the home back in 2015, but “there was no written agreement or document of any kind” setting out the terms of the transaction.
The integrity commissioner found the payment had “crystallized a financial interest in the Inglewood property, or at the very least, a financial holding related to the Inglewood property.”
O’Donnell found Carra had five separate opportunities to disclose the property between 2016 and 2021.
The Ward 9 councillor said the original plan was to tear down the duplex on the property and build two homes, one in which the Carras would live, but the deal began to fall through.
He said he and his wife invested another $36,000 toward the remaining share of the property to “salvage their investment.”