{"id":1554,"date":"2017-01-31T10:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawflog.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2017-01-31T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:59:38","slug":"fbi-questions-witness-about-sale-of-copsync-stock-to-robertson-county-officials-and-hearne-audit-to-be-released-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawflog.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"FBI questions witness about sale of CopSync stock to Robertson County officials, and Hearne audit to be released this evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday one of my sources\u00a0informed me that an FBI agent interviewed him on January 19, 2017 about allegations that\u00a0CopSync, Inc. offered an insider stock deal to Robertson County commissioners shortly before those commissioners voted on a contract with the company. My source, a local law enforcement officer who previously worked in Robertson County, is\u00a0the same person who brought the CopSync transaction to my attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I emailed CopSync officials yesterday evening to ask whether they were aware of an FBI investigation, but thus far no one from the company has responded. As I reported yesterday<\/a>, the non-employee directors of CopSync hired an outside law firm to investigate the same transaction.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In other Booger County news, a forensic audit of the City of Hearne’s finances is scheduled to be released at a city council meeting this evening. \u00a0Hearne citizens originally circulated an initiative petition to force an audit of city finances after learning that city officials used taxpayer funds to purchase football tickets and flat-screen televisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Booger County Mafia<\/a> representatives on the city council, including Mayor Ruben Gomez and Councilman Emmett Aguirre, voted to sue their own constituents in order to keep the referendum off the ballot, and then-City Attorney Bryan F. “Rusty” Russ, Jr. even hid some of the petition signatures<\/a> in an effort to keep it off the ballot. \u00a0Fortunately, the voters tossed some of the Mafia representatives from the council last May, and the new council members approved the audit.<\/p>\n

Last April, I filed suit against Mr. Russ<\/a> on behalf of former mayor Milton Johnson for tampering with the petition signatures. On January 10, 2017, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman\u00a0denied Mr. Russ’s motion to dismiss the case<\/a>, and I am planning to take Mr. Russ’s deposition in late February. I wonder how many times he will plead the Fifth.<\/p>\n

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