Kentucky Supreme Court opens an investigation
By John Cheves – jcheves@herald-leader.com
The Kentucky Supreme Court has hired a Lexington law firm to conduct a confidential investigation, said Susan Clary, the court’s clerk.
The court awarded a $20,000 no-bid contract to McBrayer McGinnis Leslie & Kirkland, the Lexington law firm of lobbyist and former state Democratic Party chairman W. Terry McBrayer. The contract runs from Nov. 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010.
“It’s an investigation the court authorized regarding a specific personnel action,” Clary said Tuesday. She declined to elaborate on the subject or scope of the investigation.
Clary said the court wanted the services of McBrayer associate Luke Morgan, a former Fayette County prosecutor and assistant attorney general who now practices criminal and administrative law.
Morgan confirmed Tuesday that he has been hired but declined further comment.
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We can all hope that it will be an investigation into the AG as to why some people are prosecuted for stealing money, while others who do the same or worse, seem to avoid prosecution. Next they need to do an investigation into where the Government of Lexington has been for the last 3 years!!!!
No bid to McBrayer? Kentucky Democrats acting like Kentucky Democrats but not out of line for McBrayer or the KDP
What’s the payback for the state? Or is this another witch hunt at the taxpayers expense.
$20k would pay for less than 70 billed hours at a big firm. An 8-month investigation would certainly eat more than that.
Glad it’s the KDP and not the Fletcher Republicans…good chance the 20K will be spent appropritely this way…dont you agree Mikey!?
Any ideas as to who is being investigated? That’s the only thing that’s really interesting about this, except congratulations to Luke Morgan for the acknowledgment of a fine career.
At the end of the investigation we will see that the conclusion was that the firings were justified and that giving raises and bonuses to the people that made the firings were OK too. What do you expect from a place that creates positions that do not exist for people who date the son of a former (at the time current) Chief Justice.
“Nothing to see here, move along”
How can the court system, which wastes more money than any other state agency except maybe transportation, justify hiring outside counsel to, presumably, investigate itself? Sounds like a job for the feds. Didn’t a justice try to get AOC to hire his drug-troubled son? Is that what this is about? And doesn’t this new client create a conflict for McBrayer’s firm that henceforth should preclude it from practicing before … its client? Only in KY..or maybe WV.
Clothes, shoes, wholesale and retail football team under a single large concessions standard welcome!