Dale Francescon

Los Angeles City Atty. James K. Hahn filed a lawsuit Friday that accused three Sherman Oaks real estate executives of illegally contributing $9,500 to Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky's election campaigns and masking the true source of the gifts by reporting that their children gave the money. The lawsuit was the second filed by Hahn this year against the same three executives of Lycon Properties Inc.

Los Angeles City Atty. James K. Hahn filed a lawsuit Friday that accused three Sherman Oaks real estate executives of illegally contributing $9,500 to Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky's election campaigns and masking the true source of the gifts by reporting that their children gave the money. The lawsuit was the second filed by Hahn this year against the same three executives of Lycon Properties Inc.

The Los Angeles city attorney's office filed suit Wednesday against three top executives of a real estate company, charging them with making $3,500 in illegal contributions to Los Angeles City Councilman Michael Woo's reelection campaign. Woo, who returned the donations following an audit by his 1989 campaign staff, was not named in the Superior Court lawsuit. The suit accuses the three corporate officers of Sherman Oaks-based Lycon Properties Inc.

A prominent San Fernando Valley development company has required its subcontractors to make political contributions as a condition of doing business with it, a highly unusual and, some critics say, unethical practice. Lycon Group of Sherman Oaks, one of Southern California's largest apartment builders, has written a "contribution schedule" into its contracts for subcontractors.