Yesterday, 27 people were indicted in Franklin County in a push dubbed “Operation Untouchable” by Sheriff Pat Melton. He was assisted by Commonwealth’s Attorney Larry Cleveland and County Attorney Rick Sparks. While Jack Conway has been keen to publicly embarrass himself by saying the pill problem in Kentucky is going away? Uh, well, take a [...]

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This is why it’s tough to trust anything UofL says about the state of its hospital: Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell says the board of the trust that receives and disburses state and local indigent care money to University Hospital hasn’t met since at least 2009 despite being required to meet twice a year. -SNIP- [...]

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Kentucky Retirement Systems issued a press release accusing the Herald-Leader and others of “misreporting.” Seriously: Kentucky Retirement Systems corrects misreporting Published at 3:04pm on January 09, 2012 -SNIP- KRS was one of three founding institutional investors in the Darien CT based Arrowhawk Durable Alpha hedge fund, which currently utilizes 6 different diversified investment strategies. This [...]

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Seems the MSD board has finally decided that it’s a good idea to reconsider those investments with Enhanced Financial Solutions. The audit said the financial firm invested MSD money in government securities but used a proprietary buying-and-selling tactic based on interest rate changes — and that board members were largely in the dark about it. [...]

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Is it really a good idea for Steve Beshear supporter and confidant Judge Phillip Shepherd to be the sole child abuse case sensor? [Debby Yetter] Or is the fact that he says the state is withholding too much information about child deaths a good thing when it comes to his potential decisions? [H-L] The truth [...]

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We’ve given you one teaser from Jim Higdon’s The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History and it’s really gotten Frankfort’s panties in a twist. Because you know we love causing heart attacks in Frankfort, here’s another taste: Four months later, on Saturday, May 12, seven [...]

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Wondering what Crit Luallen’s audit of Louisville’s Metro Sewer District doesn’t tell you? It doesn’t tell you that Patricia Poprick/First American Municipals was the “Investment Management Firm” that was paid $7.1 million. See page 68 (Warning: External PDF Link) of the audit. The audit also doesn’t tell you that the firm is just a one [...]

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Today the Mine Safety and Health Administration fined Massey Energy (it’s subsidiary, Performance Coal) $10,825,368 following an investigation into the April 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster that left 29 dead. Some 369 citations and orders were issued. 21 flagrant violations, which carry the most serious civil penalties under the law, were part of that. [...]

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It was just a couple weeks ago when news broke that the second largest municipal bankruptcy in American history was upon us. Jefferson County Alabama (Birmingham) went belly-up because toxic interest rate derivatives were used to help finance the county’s sewer system. Turns out? Those risky interest rate swap derivatives had no legitimate investment use [...]

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Maybe those Oregon and Oklahoma folks have a bit of explaining to do. Because we’ve uncovered evidence of meth offenders actually buying pseudophedrine without being blocked at the point-of-sale. Some of these stories are no longer online but we were able to dig them up via Google’s cache. Here’s one: Bond was set at $20,000 [...]

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