The hot rumor we’re hearing out of Transportation officials in Kentucky is that former Williamsburg Mayor and former Fletcher Administration Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert struck a plea deal that will become public in July.
Nighbert, you’ll recall, played a fancy role in the merit hiring scandal of the Fletcher era.
Soooo. We’re all wondering, right? Will he turn on Ernest Lee?
6 responses so far ↓
1 Not My Real Name // Jun 25, 2008 at 3:05 pm
There could have been no plea deal in a criminal case. The pardons wiped all that out. Now if you’re talking about a civil suit, that could be a very different story. But best I can remember, Fletcher was never the target of a civil suit. Nighbert was.
2 Not Hiring // Jun 25, 2008 at 6:51 pm
This investigation is supposed to have nothing to do with hiring. It is suppose to deal with transportation, contractors and lots of $$$
These are also federal charges and if they do want though in some hiring charges they can. Ern’s pardons and his Stumbo plea bargain aren’t worth the paper they are printed as far as the feds go.
Maybe Bush will pardon the lot f them on his way out the door.
3 jake // Jun 25, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I didn’t indicate that it was re: hiring. Just that he was part of the hiring snafu.
4 hank // Jun 25, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Ole Bill makes about 60k working as a flunky for David Williams!!
5 Not My Real Name // Jun 25, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Surely to God that Mitch, Hal, Bunning, Lewis, Davis and Whitfield will intervene and tell the feds to back off if they push this. They owe Fletcher at least that, given that Mitch and Bunning didn’t do jack squat for him during the state investigation.
6 Not My Real Name // Jun 25, 2008 at 10:04 pm
“This” meaning a federal probe into the hiring deal.
Re: the bid rigging, this is going to come home to roost with the merit engineers both in Frankfort and out in the states that are privy to the private estimates, not with any Fletcher appointees.
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