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Republican congressional candidate Robert Beadles has sued business competitor Gary Anderson and his business for libel and slander after Anderson accused Beadles of stealing property.
The lawsuit, dated Tuesday, says that Anderson falsely stated that Beadles stole equipment and materials from numerous state highway projects throughout the state. An investigation on Anderson's allegations is pending, sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia said Thursday afternoon.
"I'm not too worried because everything I said was true, and I can prove it," Anderson said in a News-Sentinel interview Thursday. "Most of the details of the investigation haven't come to light yet."
The accusations come during a time when Beadles is running against five Republican opponents in the June primary for the 11th Congressional District seat held by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton.
The lawsuit is based on an e-mail that an employee for Far West Safety sent to another congressional candidate, Brad Goehring, McNerney and several newspaper reporters, and on comments made on KOVR-Channel 13.
Anderson, who owns Far West Safety in Lodi, insisted in a phone interview Thursday that he did not report Beadles to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office for political reasons.
The lawsuit caps two weeks of intrigue involving Beadles. On Jan. 4, sheriff's and CHP investigators seized several items from Beadles' office and residence in Lodi and held him for questioning.
A week later, Beadles accused Goehring of directly or indirectly being involved with Anderson's allegations against Beadles during a forum of Congressional candidates in Manteca.
Goehring, who received an e-mail about about the allegations against Beadles from one of Anderson's employees, said after the forum that he's never met Anderson and knows nothing about the allegations. Anderson said he doesn't know Goehring, either.
On Tuesday, a third Republican candidate, Tony Amador, asked the California Attorney General's Office to conduct an independent investigation regarding Beadles' allegations against Goehring and the Sheriff's Office.
Dana Simas, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office, said her office gets too many requests to investigate all cases. The deciding factors on whether to follow Amador's request are whether it is within the Attorney General's jurisdition and if they have "something to go on," Simas said.
Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.
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