FBI now on Gas-Gate

Due to the total incompetence of the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office, failing miserably at sweeping Gas-Gate under the rug, now the Federal Bureau of Investigations, are being tasked with the assignment.

For those of you indigenous to this corrupt valley, Wake Up Wilkes Barre offers,

Investigations 101; Investigations Made Easy:

• The city was fined if 2007 and told NO FREE GAS.

• The city was fined if 2009 and told NO FREE GAS..

• The city was fined if 2012 and told NO FREE GAS…

• The King and Co. took gas when they knew via the 2007, and 2009 Department of Revenue fines that this was NOT allowed…..

• King Admitted to Gas Pilfering in the press several times…..

• Photo of King pilfering gas exists……

• Several current and former city employees have testified to seeing King & Co. pilfer gas……

• DEP Boss had portable gas tank in back of truck, where is it now, and why did he have it???????

Photo of Ken Pahler's former truck being repaired at DPW

• Slam Dunk??????????

If someone filled up at Turkey Hill, and drove off, what would happen to them, with MUCH less evidence?

The Citizens Voice reported: "Mayor Tom Leighton, on behalf of the City of Wilkes-Barre, will fully cooperate with any law enforcement and regulatory agency who is conducting any investigation as we have always done in the past," Wilkes-Barre spokeswoman Liza Prokop said in an emailed statement.

YET: First Assistant District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce said. "We have encountered great difficulty in obtaining certain information with respect to the Wilkes-Barre gas investigation."

• So if the King is fully cooperating with any law enforcement then why in the world would Sanguedolce encountered great difficulty in obtaining certain information?

Wake Up Wilkes Barre

Source:

• 2007 & 2012 DEP Fines
• 2009 DEP fine
• FBI enters W-B gas probe
• OUR OPINION: DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Missing fuel case lingers too long

Part-Time King / Full-Time Realtor?

For those who didn’t know, former Wilkes Barre City Administrator, J.J. ($300 per Hr. Consultant Scammer) Murphy, was suing Radnor Township, for not hiring him. After all his (at the time) congressman-brother, Patrick Murphy, did call Radnor Township, and ask them nicely to hire his little brother. Wink, Wink…

Sad news for J.J., the jury was wise. He LOST!

But the most interesting part of the trial (for Wilkes Barre anyway) came about as J.J. provided sworn testimony.

The issue was also raised as to how much of a role Murphy played in fixing the problems of the City of Wilkes-Barre as opposed to what the elected mayor did.

Murphy said in testimony Tuesday that the mayor worked about three hours a day because he had a full time real estate business.

• Ok we (the good honest Wilkes Barre folk) have known this fact for years, I’ve personally witnessed it, as did my wife, one weekday afternoon, in Hanover Twp. as the King tooled up to show our friend a listing, (when he should have been at city hall), but for J.J. Murphy to actually make it public record… WOW!

So now I wonder: If the King only works “three hours a day because he had a full time real estate business.”

• Why would he need FREE city gas?
• Or is he even deserving of said gas, only working “three hours a day”?

J.J. did try to clean up his statements in the cross examination on Wednesday,

Murphy, when asked about his statement on the mayors work habits, he said he meant that the mayor worked three hours a day in City Hall and then went out and conducted city business such as cutting ribbons.

• Ribbon Cuttings???? WHAT???, How often do those come about in Wilkes Barre, but lets give J.J. the benefit of the doubt on this one, and say when and if they did pop up (when J.J. was still with the city), thinking back though, J.J. was there whenever cameras were rolling!!!

Wake Up Wilkes Barre

Source:

• Jury finds in favor of Radnor Township in case against manager candidate
• Jury rejects claim against Radnor Township by manager candidate
• Top 10 Reasons J.J. didn’t get hired