A few years ago, an APS senior administrator, Michael Vigil, APS Assoc Supt, was arrested for aggravated DUI. He was put on paid leave. There was such a public outrage, that he was sitting at home doing nothing for his huge paycheck, APS said they would never send anyone home with nothing to do but collect their check.
Later, another senior administrator, Gilbert Lovato, Chief of the APS Police Department, collected a half a year of salary while on paid leave and doing nothing.
Now, another senior administrator, Dupuy Bateman, CFO, is on paid leave waiting for his contract to expire.
These are only the ones I know about; it is anyone's guess
how many others there are.
The advantage to APS is that if they just put these guys on leave until their contract runs out, they never have to go to court and have the problems made public. When Gil Lovato was being "fired", he said
if the truth ever came out in court, there wouldn't beIf APS senior administrators have done something wrong;
a single APS senior administrator left standing.
why are we paying them to sit at home doing nothing?
If APS senior administrators have not done something wrong;
why are we paying them to sit at home doing nothing?
The common thread; in either case, the truth about the
ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, never gets told.
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