Conflict Of Interest? Oakland Coliseum JPA Exec Gardner Sold Muni Firm To Loop Capital In 2011 Oakland Coliseum Executive Director Henry Gardner is well-regarded for his work as Oakland's first black city manager. From 1981 to 1993, Henry Gardner built Oakland into a city considered one of the best managed in America. Gardner is considered by many, including this Oakland blogger, as a high-integrity man who makes sure that all of the "I's" are dotted and the "T"'s are crossed in negotiations with all types of parties from labor lawyers to sports team owners. A person so well regarded as Henry Gardner would not expect to leave out a detail of high importance in a situation like the Oakland Coliseum Sale to The Oakland Acquisition Company / African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG). But it appears that Henry sold his municipal investment banking firm Gardner, Underwood, and Bacon to the same Loop Capital that is part of the Oakland A...