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I wonder if I say Rudy Warnock looks like a little swamp donkey if you will zap it. I'm just sayin' he looks like a little troll.

When the story about the "friendly" dinner with Warnock, Johnson and the MDOT wolves behind Dick Hall's back broke, I figured he was a crook. As much as "Mary Queen of Bricks" irratetes me and likely has her own agenda in bringing this out, she's dead on here.

I would never make a threat like "We will deal with her"...

I agree with Kingfish, he aint gonna give her discovery, however if his actions, no matter how distasteful are legal, he needs to tell Mary to F%$K OFF!

I agree with second comment. Mary always has an agenda, and sometimes she is right as this case. Why can't the citizens of Madison Co. have a forensic audit and settle the matter.
Seems ridiculous to engineer projects that can't be built.

Rudy may be dumb, but he's probably not stupid so he won't be suing Mary.

KF, you are dead on with the rates vs. total cost. If he has nothing to hide he will eventually produce the sub-contractor cost. If he's fleecing the County, he will not.

If Rudy does not produce the sub-contactor costs and in affect prove he is not fleecing Madison County, he, Carl, Paul and Tim probably had better pray to their God a certain Federal Gov agency doesn't start following the money.

Still don't see any smoking guns here. The sub-contracts won't prove much. Markup of subs is a customary practice. I doubt Warnock's % was that out of whack if it is above an area wide average.

MHB's real beef is with the Sups and how their spending the dinero now that they've abandoned the new interchange. This is a sideshow to take down Johnson.

Can't see smoking guns since they are obscured by the smoke...

Madison County taxpayers are being fleeced by white collar activities (crime?)... if someone walked into the Court House and robbed the tax collector, we would never hear the end of it! However, with this type activity... condoned by 3 members of the Board of Supervisors, much more money is involved... but, this is white collar activities that the District Attorney, State Auditor, and etc., have a hard time dealing with.

The entire system of personal services contracts, and their impact on bid laws, who reviews the work of engineers, etc., should be looked at and appropriate State statutes changed to reduce the loopholes.

Just do like Mabus did in Operation PRETENSE... FOLLOW THE MONEY! The trail can't be that hard... in fact, a blind dog could probably sniff out this trail!

Regarding the audit document -- I find it interesting that it is not signed or specifically dated, other than September 2009. Who are the officials in Madison who were in charge of the investigation? Who paid for it? Who conducted it?

Rudy Warnock and Tim Johnson are huge crooks. Karl Banks isn't far behind Tim. Paul Griffin is fairly honest, but will vote however necessary in order to get funding in his district. He basically has become a slave to Tim Johnson.

Mayor Hawkins is right in this argument, but don't forget that she has her agenda, also.

DI Smith, is rightly pushing open, accountable, transparent government, but he conveniently forgets the shenanigans he pulled to get into office in the first place. Where were his ethics then? He has his agenda, also.

Don't know much about Jon Bell Crosby, so I won't comment.

Bottom line is it is time to get rid of these fools. ALL OF THEM! Tim and Rudy should go first. DI Smith and Karl should go second. Might consider keeping Paul Griffin and John Bell Crosby.

I read the audit. There are quality engineering firms who are also cheaper than the ones that Rankin County, City of Madison, Ridgeland, etc. utilize.

KF, have you read the audit? The second page of the analysis of contract percentages is WORTHLESS, there are no project costs listed. Also, whomever performed this audit sure used some interesting data, going all the way back to 1997 for comps. And about those contract percentages....look how Warnock is all over the board, even on the same project (Calhoun Station). And really, since Rudy has the most expensive project out there (the non-existant Reunion interchange), I'm thinking almost $2 mil for a ghost project is a bit much; perhaps he could have gotten by with only 5% of the project cost since we're talking about $28 mil to begin with (by far the most expensive, no other project listed comes close).

And just for laughs, where is Rudy's hourly breakdown by employee? Where are the page numbers? Who prepared the report? Why isn't there a signature somewhere?

Kingfish, I serve as the attorney for Warnock & Associates, and for Mr. Rudy Warnock. Yesterday, Mr. Warnock and I disputed point by point a so-called report from her hired gun engineer, who isn’t even licensed in the state of Mississippi. We provided the media with hundreds of pages of evidence to show that Mayor Hawkins' allegations are false and misleading, and provided thousands of Warnock and Associates time sheets to show that her charges of illegal and unethical subcontracting are false. Please let me know how I can get this information to you.

All this talk but no criminal investigations and no lawsuits filed. Politics. That is all.

It is guilt by association Mr. Carson. It is all about Tim Johnson.

crybaby gone and got a lawyer. what a putz.

A real good lawyer. To bad for you.

Hey Mr. Attorney, I'm fairly certain KF has an email address listed on this website. Just sayin.....IF you really want him to have the docs.

http://www.burr.com/attorneys/DorseyRCarsonJr.aspx

IF Kingfish really wants the information ... just sayin'.

I just sent Kingfish the documents which include a timesheet summary (almost 4,000 engineering hours performed), and all the subcontractor invoices on the two projects that Mary Hawkins has been harping on--the $178,600 and $150,000 Calhoun Station environmental engineering work. Of course, subcontract amounts are irrelevant as are the timesheets since these are lump sum contracts (although admittedly relevant for Hawkins' political agenda). In other words, whether Warnock has to spend 4,000 hour, 10,000 hours, or 2,000 hours, or subcontract for lots of money or for little money, and whether he makes money or loses money, the price to the County is the same. For those projects that are performed under the County's general services agreement, where Warnock can mark up subcontracts up to 5%, he actually has 0% markup. All of those subcontract amounts are included in invoices submitted to the county administrator (a CPA who worked 20 years at the State Auditor's office) and then submitted to the Board. Hawkins would have to have some understanding of engineering process to appreciate that, and perhaps she should ask her own City Engineer why he subcontracts engineering work. Sorry for the length here--need a drink of water? We have a firehose.

Go get 'em Dorsey!

Second time this week Kingfish has gotten sucked into being the water carrier.

Grow up. Do you honestly think I'm NOT going to post what Mr. Carson sent me if its what he says it is? That is the difference between me and the local media, I'll put all the docs up here for everyone to read for themselves and make their own judgements. Go get that at other hack websites and we all know who they are.

Finally...someone post the documents...I am tired of hearing Mary complain about this guy....he has already been convicted in the media and noone has seen document one.

I for one say post the documents and let the rough end drag.

If it shows Mary is wrong..she should apologize..or get her ass sued like the rest us would

Just posted the documents and some of you hatin' on me don't realize Mr. Carson did me a big favor without anyone realizing it. I wonder if anyone will pick up on what it is. And it has nothing to do with his client.

Mr. Warnock... Sir, please stop the smoke screen and present the sub-contractor contracts and invoices, as your Madison County contracts require...

KF. Now you can calculate the Two Lakes proposal.

Engineering fees probably pale in comparison to attorney fees. Right or wrong or whether you like the guy or not, professional engineers are generally under-appreciated (e.g. garbage men are called "sanitation engineers", actually against the law but never enforced). The State Board has specific criteria for working for government entities. If someone has proof of a breach, then it needs to be filed as a complaint. The engineering profession differs from others, as the paramount goal is the safety and welfare of the public.

www.pepls.state.ms.us/pepls/web.nsf

The State Board is a bunch of wimps to allow the engineering profession to be embarrassed by this despicable representation of our profession.

KF, what was the favor? What did you find in the docs that you wanted us to guess? I am very, very curious and I don't have time to read it all ....

A couple things I took away...
1. As an employee of the State of Mississippi, it is being alleged that she broke State Law by hiring the engineer under these circumstances.
2. It is also being alleged that a competitor paid for the study? That is a big no-no. That looks on the surface to be "Pay for Play."
3. I don't know what the co-mingling of funds means, but it can't be good for Mary.

The complete lack of honest, ACTUAL public servants in government today just makes me want to get drunk, puke, then move to a deserted island.

Stacey Pickering should step to the plate and do an audit of Madison County's engineer. To have the staff of Madison County do an audit of their engineer is a joke. Elvis (Tim Johnson) and Rudy Warnock need to leave the building. No doubt in my mind they are corrupt.

KF, we've been holding our breath for a few days here. What's the favor????

Oh, someone almost got it in one of the comments.