Two words....Martha Stewart....Can we not learn from her stupid story. OK so she does a little insider trading...not really a big deal....but what she gets jail time for is "not being truthful" to investigators....
We have the same issue going on here in St. Louis. The Chief of Police for the city of St. Louis, Joe Mokwa, is some hot water.....
Over the past 5 years or so...his daughter along with a bunch of cops have been getting some favors from a police contractor. The low down is this....the towing company was allowing his daughter to "test drive" vehicles that had been confiscated by the city. These cars were in-line to be sold at city auction, with the proceeds to be split with the city and the tow agency.
When the story first hit the papers.....to me it was a who cares....based on the facts they collected.
First of all, 3 of the 4 cars the daughter test drove...she bought. OK she may have "test driven" them for extended periods of time....she also totalled one...probably the one she didn't buy! Also...we are not talking Maserati.....these were low end cars. I think I read that one of them was a late model escort......A new escort is no big deal....an old one???? I guess some of the issue was that she paid way below blue book. So instead of paying the 3k for the piece of junk she paid 1k. The legal beagles say that there were no laws broken.....OK...
The big issue is the lying. FYI...the paper told the police about the up coming release to the public. They had time to get their stuff together. They in fact ordered a private investigation....then Big Joe thinks he should not be totally truthful about the issue....Martha here we go again.
If the guy just laid it out....yeah people may of not liked his kid getting a break on a car most people would not buy....but he could just say...."oops sorry" and all would be done.
But now Big Joe may be the latest victim of Ego....we will see.
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