California's public employee pension plan disclosed millions of dollars in new fees paid to a former board member who represents private investment funds, triggering fresh calls for reforms. Documents released Wednesday show that Alfred J.R. Villalobos was paid $17 million for his work as a middleman for a Los Angeles-based real estate investment fund and other clients. That's on top of the $53 million in fees disclosed last month. The fees paid to Villalobos and his Stateline, Nev., business 'are shocking to everyone,' said Rob Feckner, president of the California Public Employees Retirement System board. A full inquiry is needed to evaluate how those commissions compare to those paid by other investment funds, he said. Villalobos, a former CalPERS board member and one-time Los Angeles deputy mayor, has denied any wrongdoing and said he is cooperating with inquiries by investigators for CalPERS. He did not return phone calls to discuss the latest disclosures Concerns about the role of intermediaries in pension fund investments have grown in recent months. The relationships are being examined at by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the attorneys general of New York state and California. Disclosures ordered in recent months by the Calpers board have begun to show the extent that money and influence may have played a role in the way the the state's pension money is invested. State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a CalPERS board member, believes that the size of the fees paid to Villalobos highlights the need for more openness about how investment decisions are made at CalPERS and other public pension funds, said spokesman Joe DeAnda. Lockyer pressed for a new state law that takes effect in January to require all government pensions in California to disclose activities of such so-called placement agents. The Villalobos disclosures have also caught the attention of a career CalPERS investment officer, who is vying in a run-off election for an open seat on the 13-member board 'That is a lot of money,' said J.J. Jelincic. He said he wonders whether CalPERS might be paying too much in management fees to outside investment funds, if those same funds can afford to pay as much as $70 million in commissions to intermediaries that pitch their products to pension board members and staff. 'We need people on the board that actually have an investment background,' he said, ' and, hence, be less susceptible to salesmen.' For its part, the pension fund says it wants to make sure that the fund's 1.6 million members, retirees and family members aren't footing the bill for commissions investment funds pay intermediaries. 'Our contracts say the managers have to bear that expense,' said Joe Dear, CalPERS' chief investment officer. 'We want to make sure that happens.' The latest payments disclosed Tuesday went to Villalobos and his companies, Arvco Capital Research and Arvco Financial Ventures. They upped his total commissions by nearly $18 million: $11.5 million in fees for landing investment contracts with CalPERS and $6.4 million in fees connected to a separate investment fund contract with the State Teachers' Retirement System, a sister agency known as CalSTRS. Villalobos got $9.6 million from CIM Group, a Los Angeles real estate investment fund. According to the statement filed by CIM, Villalobos between 1998 and 2000 helped CIM raise $405 million in investments from the California pension. CIM also reported that it separately paid a $500,000 placement fee to Banc of America Securities of Charlotte, N.C., as part of decision to invest in CIM's largely Los Angeles-based real estate holdings. The same document also indicated that Villalobos received a fee of $6.4 million for assisting CIM in obtaining investment money from CalSTRS. CalSTRS said it had no information about placement-agent fees paid by investment funds before its board approved a disclosure policy in 2006. CalSTRS, which has a total investment portfolio of $130 billion, says it has invested about $260 million in the CIM fund since 2001 and has earned a cumulative return of 26.6 percent. CalPERS, whose investments total about $200 billion, also reported earnings of around 20 percent over the past five years from its CIM investment. In a second investment deal, Villalobos received a fee of about $1.9 million from CalPERS for serving as a placement agent in a 2008 CalPERS investment in the Apollo Europe Management Fund. The two new disclosure documents say that Villalobos' son, Alfred Nash Villalobos, was involved in the CIM deal and that a daughter, Carrissa Villalobos, participated in the Apollo transaction. Both are lawyers. In August, Alfred Nash Villalobos, 44, was arrested and charged with obstruction of a grand jury proceeding. The U.S. attorney in Santa Ana alleged that Nash Villalobos accepted $50,000 in cash from the target of a pending federal grand jury investigation. An Aug. 20 indictment said that Nash Villalobos allegedly agreed to have his client make false statements to the U.S. attorney and a grand jury conducting an investigation. Nash Villalobos has pleaded not guilty to the charges. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles said there was no apparent link between Nash Villalobos' alleged crimes and his father's business activities with state pension funds. 