Category Archives: corruption

Storm Clouds Brewing at Animal Services

October 23, 2009 – 9:54 pm

Last Wednesday, during what should have been a routine Government Accountability and Oversight Committee hearing at City Hall, the latest chapter in the convoluted saga(s) emanating from Louisville Metro Animal Services unfolded in such spectacular fashion that the sound of collective-eyebrow raising could be heard from blocks away. When it was over, television crews were still [...]

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Lawson Phone Tapes Stir Controversy, Pedophile Metaphors

June 4, 2009 – 11:55 am

Like most allegedly corrupt individuals whom have had the unfortunate luck in having their conversations recorded, disgraced eastern Kentucky asphalt magnate Leonard Lawson is doing whatever he can to save as much of his ass as can be saved; from the C-J:
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Defense attorneys for road contractor Leonard Lawson argued during a closed [...]

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Let Sleeping Liebermans Lie

March 24, 2009 – 12:00 pm

For all of its bottomless novelty, the internet can be a very dangerous place — it’s not exactly the kind of place where, if you’re a politician, you want to leave your ultra torrid Mexican vacation footage lying around. Thanks to the intrepid muckraking of LEO’s own Jim Welp (not to mention the highly complex [...]

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Tip line story picking up steam

March 19, 2009 – 10:52 am

As you might imagine, some city officials are upset about Phillip M. Bailey’s story “Whistleblowers blocked?“, in this week’s LEO. One of them, city auditor Mike Norman, is claiming he was misquoted in Bailey’s story. Of course, we have all the info to back up Norman’s quotes, as well as the context he gave us [...]

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