Mike Gatto | Mike Gatto
Mike Gatto | Mike Gatto
Mike Gatto, a former Assemblymember, said he decided to withhold information regarding his father's case from his staff when going through an intense pursuit of leads and evidence with a perceived lack of focus during his later political career. Gatto was a guest on a recent episode of the Next Round Podcast.
"I hid it from my staff, and probably the only person who knew was my wife because, number one, I was getting all these tips all the time, and I was obsessing over it, and it was not healthy," said Gatto on the Next Round Podcast hosted by the Pacific Research Institute think tank. “I felt like, if I could only collect more evidence, if I could only try to logic stuff out more, if I could only reach more people, if I could only talk and find more people who might've been eyewitnesses and so on and so forth, that maybe this would be the break that solved my dad's case.”
“My dad also, like many people, I mean, obviously he didn't expect to die',” Gatto said. There was a lot of work just sorting through his stuff and doing things like that. I feel bad sometimes that for some of my latter years in office that, I wasn't as focused as I could have been. I tried my best to juggle everything."
This full episode is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Gatto, a former Assemblymember, chaired the Appropriations Committee. Following his father's unsolved murder, he explored crime investigations, law enforcement, and politics in Los Angeles.
Next Round is a weekly podcast put on by the nonpartisan think tank Pacific Research Institute. Topics explored on the podcast revolve around California politics and free market ideas in the state. Guests include elected officials, members of the media, and policy leaders.
Pasadena, California-based Pacific Research Institute, founded in 1979, is an advocacy organization whose goal is to “champion freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility for all individuals by advancing free-market policy solutions,” according to the group’s website. Its president is Sally Pipes.
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