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Questions:
If the 18,000 shortage occurred in
just seven months, how much might be missing from previous months and years?
Who made the decision not to use the
Phoenix 8000, which has been attached to the city's fuel pumps since 2009?
Who are the other city officials
authorized to fuel their private vehicles at the pumps and what was the
justification for that authorization?
Did Leighton or those other
officials file any sort of documents detailing when, why and how far they drove
on the city's dime?
Who was responsible for monitoring
the pen-and-paper log?
And finally, Mr. Mayor, when will
you secure the city's fuel supply and have that Phoenix 8000 turned on?
Other Important
Questions:
According to The Times Leader story, Who’s fueling who?, The City was missing 17,880 gallons over 7 months. That’s an average 2,554 gallons missing each month.
If this
was only a “record keeping error” as the city claims, and nothing has changed other
than now logging gas out, is the city still consuming the same number of
gallons each month, as they have over the previous 6 months, years, whatever?
The
number of DPW Trucks, Police Cars, Code Enforcement Cars, ETC hasn’t changed
since The Times Leader uncovered Gas-Gate so the number of GPM – Gallons Per
Month used shouldn’t decrease now that we are properly filling out the log,
should it?
DPW
Meeting Friday:
The
King called an employee meeting Friday at 3:00 PM to inform the DPW employees
that they may be called by the DA or another investigative agency to give
statements, and if they felt uncomfortable they could be accompanied by one of
The City Lawyers.
Scare Tactics
Although
The King did tell the employees to cooperate fully with any investigator the
fact that some may take the lawyers, and some may not, in itself is a scare
tactic.
Per The King: Those who choose not to take the lawyer (AKA spy) must plan to tell the
DA the truth.
How
often in life does any witness or potential witness need to take a lawyer?
Is the
DA that scary?
If The
King truly had nothing to hide he wouldn’t need to call staff meetings to tell
his staff what to do, they would just do it!
Wake Up
Wilkes Barre
DPW employees have no need for a lawyer if all they are going to do is testify as to WHO was taking gas from the City pumps illegally, unless, they were one of those people. And if they did steal gas from the City, why should the City have to pay for their defense?? I agree w/Kadluboski, that people who testify should be immune from retribution under the "Whistle Blower" act.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more!!! Let's keep informing our city employees!
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