In the Journal this morning; link; part of the story of the hastily arranged retirement of Albuquerque Public Schools senior administrator Brad Winter.
If APS COO and City Councilor Brad Winter is to retire before the facts are known about public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS and its publicly funded private police force, Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston has only to hide the truth for three more weeks.
If that possibility seems outlandish, consider that public records; the findings of the previous investigations of felony criminal misconduct in the APS Police leadership are still hidden.
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| Tellez answered to Winter. |
Winter will retire in 25 days.
In 26 days, Sheriff Dan Houston will be free to make available; the public record of administrative and executive incompetence and corruption in the leadership of the APS.
Assuming of course it is ever made available; a huge and utterly unjustified assumption .
The equivalent records from the 2006 scandal remain hidden in their entirety, still. The findings of every single investigation of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators are being hidden from public knowledge at enormous expense to taxpayers.
The leadership of the APS has in their hands right now, the most recent findings of an investigation done by their in house but otherwise independent investigator Robert Caswell. The findings have not been and will not be produced; not in ethical redaction, not at all.
If you ask them, how they intend to do that, they must answer that they will hide behind legal weaselry and the inadequacies in the Inspection of Public Records Act.
If you ask them why they intend to hide the records,
you will find them "unavailable for comment".
There is only one reason to hide the truth and that is to avoid the consequences of the truth being known.
Winter will leave as well, without having first produced a candid, forthright and honest accounting of the spending he and they have done sprucing up the digs at 6400 Uptown Blvd, link.
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| Brad Winter spent how much on what? Look; something shiny, a retirement with honors party! |
Nowhere, in any record APS will produce, can you find out how much money the leadership of the APS spent in their castle keep. Nowhere will you find, what they spent it on.
This only makes a difference because we're talking about millions of dollars that could have been spent fixing up classrooms instead of on hardwood paneling in good ol' boys offices. And, it makes a difference as a matter of principle.
According to a contemporaneous audit by the Meyners and Co, all those millions of dollars were spent;
- without adequate standards, and
- without adequate accountability to such standards as there were, and
- without adequate record keeping.
This situation could not exist without the complicity, complacency or incompetence of the traditional press; the Journal in particular.
If I had to pick one, I'd have to pick complicit.
Up to their eyeballs and then some, complicit.
photos Mark Bralley
2 comments:
As usual, you scooped the so called " legitimate" press! Well done, Ched
thank you for your kind attention
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