there are ongoing taxpayer costs

As a direct result of the alleged corruption in the APS Police Department Administration; taxpayers are incurring ongoing costs.

Gil Lovato will earn $300 a day until his career ends in June. Taxpayers have received nothing in return for his salary, at least since January.

Elizabeth Everitt will earn upwards of $700 a day for as long as the bread crumbs that allegedly lead from Lovato's desk to Savage's, to Everitt's, can be concealed.

The Modral Law Firm; and School Board President Paula Maes, will make between $300 and $1,000 dollars an hour to provide immunity for administrators, board members, and Modral; from the consequences for deliberately violating the law in order to conceal public records.

I suspect that taxpayers will be footing Sam Bregman's bill as well.

And there are the inherent losses due to corruption, incompetence, and waste. The financial cost of public corruption and incompetence is not insignificant.

There are human losses in teachers and administrators; men and women of competence and character, who will leave the APS rather than live with their guilty knowledge of corruption and incompetence, or because they realize finally, you can't teach in spite of them.

Public corruption and incompetence waste public resources.

It must be costing taxpayers something to keep this out of the news.

When I asked the leadership of the APS for the opportunity to inspect and or copy the financial records of public money spent on the newspapers; when I asked them under the auspices of the NMIPRA; if they would reveal how many tax dollars were now in the hands of the people who decide what truth gets printed;

the answer was no.