The cover-up is on
As Mike indicates in this post, It is now clear that someone connected to someone high up in the state government is a person of interest in the theft of over $1 million from state funds. There are even strong indications that the suspect(s) have already been charged.
A quick google search that contains the terms “delawareonline” and “has been charged with” returns 1,410 hits. So there is clearly no precedent for keeping this a state secret.
There now appears to be bi-partisan conspriacy to keep that name(s) on the down low. Why?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has feathers….
Its amazing how coy our government watchdogs have become about the names associated with this theft.
I guess Tom Wagner would be against FOIA? Wonder how Burris is going to spin this.
Not ready to go conspiracy theory like you guys, but if the evidence is so strong that Wagner believes the potential Defendants will be forced to plead guilty to lesser charges lest they be sentenced to many many years in prison, then obviously the state police must be, at this very moment, issuing arrest warrants and/or negotiating the suspects’ surrender. Keeping the names of the suspects “secret” during this process is prudent, but after they are arrested, or if they evade arrest for some reason, the names of the suspects must be released and revealed.
If by the end of the week we have not had arrests and/or a revelation of the names of the suspects, then I will jump in the cover-up conspiracy pool with yous guys.
DelDem, I agree with your reasoning. If arrests have already been made, or even made weeks ago and names withheld, someone(s) is/are going to be politically waterboarded. And yes, it is torture.
The only other reason I can think of for the delay is the newly revealed federal investigation. Perhaps they are calling the shots and want to investigate potential federal crimes prior to arrests being made.
I love how Disbelief tries to wring every partisan drop from this. It’s not Minner’s Finance Department or Minner’s State Police that are the problem. It has to be the guy that busted the fraud in the first place.
Give it up Pete.
Just a point: Dana’s interview with Wagner yesterday pointedly grounded the issue with the State Police. Now, today, the FBI is suddenly involved.
Did this happen overnight? Odd that Federal involvement was mentioned by anyone until today. According to Wagner, there exists evidence aplenty to the extent that no trial is necessary. And now the Feds are involved?
It doesn’t appear to be a partisan issue; it seems to be one of skulduggery and misdirection on the part of more participants than just Wagner.
To me, Dave, this is not a partisan issue. A crime has been committed. The persons responsible should be tried, convicted and sentenced. It matters not to me whether the Auditor is a Republican. Indeed, it appears Wagner has been above board in this process.
I do see Republicans trying to make this a failure of the Minner-Carney administration. Indeed, someone has spectuculated that the fraud probably goes back to 1999, thus making it Carney’s fault.
Surely you see how ridiculous that is, Dave.
“A crime has been committed. The persons responsible should be tried, convicted and sentenced. It matters not to me whether the Auditor is a Republican. Indeed, it appears Wagner has been above board in this process.”
I completely agree. I don’t think it’s a partisan issue, either. Disbelief, however…
If Wagner is not really a part of this investigation (per his interview with Dana), and further review and remediation is contemplated to be farmed out to a privately-owned accounting firm (at great taxpayer expense), why does Wagner remain the poster boy for the Finance Department?
Where the heck is Cordrey?