Ain't going to happen as an expose. Too dangerous to a small paper in a small community. Beside it is expensive to hire qualified expose reporters and you simply can't trust inexperienced ones to do it. I certainly get no thrill out of this sort of thing. Better that we never heard of it. If it is true and has gone on this long, then it is our fault not the Sheriffs.

Here's how I see it going down today and tomorrow. This newspaper is going to have a factual story tomorrow but nothing new except maybe comments from some people. Randall is going to wait until tomorrow to unleash his "internal ivestigation" because he and the other paper are joined at the hip and they'll publish whatever he tells them to.

No matter what its not going to stop the television I-Team.

Well, Well, Well what a difference a day makes. Seems that the smoke and mirrors internal investigation has hit a major snag. Hard to be in Tenn. for 5 days on private business when your time sheet only shows that "someone" used 1 day vacation and the other 4 days are payed as if he was working on Sheriff business. Don't think that is true, ask for an open records for all pay records for that week. Now folks, we could say it was bad book keeping on some clerks part but it goes on all the time. I wish I had a job that everytime I was out of town on family business I was writing it off like I was working. A quick look at the law says that is Felony theft. But who am I to say that, I am sure the "Internal Investigation" will find that out and expose it to the public. And if it does not, some smart citizen will do the open records on the whole investigation so that the public will see it.

Now I believe the Sheriff will offer some type of reduction in rank and pay to keep this investigation from getting out of hand and into the press for those press people willing to take him on, but a wave of people that have been stepped on over the years is going to bring all of this into the bright sun light.

I had a great deal of respect for the Sheriff, and always felt he would always do the right thing, I hope he does not let me down.

Well, you should know that better than anyone. But in this case, I'm not aware of any public government meetings. Maybe you'll fill us in.

"WHEN BAD MEN COMBINE, THE GOOD MUST ASSOCIATE; ELSE THEY WILL FALL, ONE BY ONE, AN UNPITIED SACRIFICE IN A CONTEMPTIBLE STRUGGLE."
Edmund Burke, Irish Philosopher; after the French Revolution.. This observation has been paraphrased in many different ways, including the one posted by nneed4justice.

Don't you think that this has special application to Fayette County's problems with the Sheriff's scandal and the TDK Road debacle?

How many people had to know about the Sheriff's department and look the other way to make it possible ?

Fayette County Sheriff's dept is not one you want to mess with.

This isn't funny. Let the Feds handle it.

I have heard stories about this since I moved here 14yrs ago.

I also think these "stories" are part of what has kept us safe.

Cops are hired help to serve us per the law. We certainly shouldn't be afraid of them unless we are dangerous. Also it certainly doesn't mean they can do what they want.

Let the Feds handle it. They know what they are doing, we don't. This involves one guy. This is not and should not be a strike against the rest of the dept. They are very honest and hardworking people.

Later dopplerobserver.

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