Darwin Leuba

Darwin is the current Auditor of O'Hara Township and has been in office since 2017. He has a proven track record of uncovering tax evasion schemes, particularly by exposing UPMC's private parking lot tax evasion that amounted to millions of dollars. Darwin has also been successful in his efforts to demand greater transparency in contract compliance, winning 13 cases against the current County Controller. He is the only County Controller candidate who refuses campaign donations from UPMC, Highmark, and corporate PACs. Darwin is a second-generation Taiwanese American who graduated from Fox Chapel Area High School and earned a degree in Computer Science from Yale. His technical background makes him a suitable candidate for the role of County Controller. Darwin's platform includes countywide parcel review to crack down on tax evasion by corporations and nonprofits, auditing clean air enforcement to benefit impacted communities, and enforcing health and nutrition contracts in our jail, which currently has soaring overtime costs and a death rate almost twice the national average.