I was disappointed in what happened but I’m choosing to stay on until the end because I have to put the trains on the tracks," real estate developer Steve Soboroff tells THR after reluctantly agreeing to forgo his controversial $500,

To lie or not to lie about $5,556-a-day in pay, that is the question between Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Steve Soboroff, the city’s wildfire recovery czar. Soboroff later retracted his statement, saying he didn’t believe Bass lied or intentionally misled him, and agreed to work for free.

Steve Soboroff walked back the comments a few days later, saying that he doesn't think he was intentionally misled.

L.A. recovery czar Steve Soboroff is walking back his recent comment in which he claimed Mayor Karen Bass lied to him about being paid.

One of the recent controversies in LA's wildfire response involves Steve Soboroff. LA Mayor Karen Bass appointed him to be her point person to oversee the response. Then it came out he was going to be paid $500,

The mayor pointed to two major factors that guided her decision, alleging that 1,000 firefighters who could have been on duty the morning the fires broke out were sent home under Chief Kristin Crowley’s leadership and that Crowley refused to do an after-action report on the fires, as requested by the president of the city’s fire commission.

Mayor Bass speaks exclusively with us as fractures grow deeper at City Hall over the firing of LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley.

A new report suggests that LA city leadership has scrubbed clashes between Karen Bass and reporters as a means to rehab her image following the wildfires.

We've been watching one bizarre move after another from LA Mayor Karen Bass. But the low point came on Friday with her decision to oust the city's fire chief.