Two former CMU employees claimed they were fired because they would not talk to then-CMU engineer Rudy Warnock. WLBT reported yesterday:
Two Canton Municipal Utility employees were fired from the agency after having run-ins with its former engineer, Rudy Warnock, according to testimony. The Rudy Warnock and Cleveland Anderson bribery trial began this week at the federal courthouse in downtown Jackson. Proceedings were postponed on Thursday after the government’s last witness was unable to testify due to a medical emergency. But before that, the court heard from Lisa Ross and Brian Finnegan, two former CMU staffers who ended up out of a job after allegedly not bending to Warnock’s demands. Warnock was named engineer for the utility in the summer of 2016. At the time, Finnegan was CMU’s general manager, and Ross was its contract attorney. Ross lost her position shortly after she refused to talk to Warnock about CMU issues, telling the court she had not been authorized to do so by the utility’s Board of Commissioners. “Later, I received a call from Cleveland Anderson, and Mr. Anderson instructed me that I was to take Rudy’s call whenever he called, and answer any questions that Mr. Warnock had,” she said. “I told Mr. Anderson I would, but I had no intention of doing that, because it was my position that Mr. Anderson was only one member of the board, and one member could not direct my activities as a lawyer.” Within a couple of weeks, Ross was out, and Mike Espy was appointed in her place. Rest of article.
Next week should be fun to watch. Stay tuned.
14 comments:
Espy walked into a Canton Dollar General when Warnock just happened to be inside. Through that chance encounter Espy was offered the vacant attorney's position. However, no boots were involved.
Just because it might be a coincidence doesn't mean it might be a conspiracy!
@6:45 PM - Espy wouldn't otherwise be caught dead in a Dollar General. He only shops at the Neiman Marcus in Canton.
Rotten to the core
Why hasn’t Espy been charged?
As I said in an earlier post on this trial, criminal investigators don't believe in coincidences. The timing of this mass firing was not a coincidence. It was quid pro quo.
I'm glad that those who do wrong get prosecuted. Guilt by association is not a crime.
I would remind some of you of the white politicians are who have been caught and found guilty.
It's hypocritical to defend those in your " tribe" who do wrong.
I dealt regularly with Finnegan with CMU. After many years of questionable ethics at CMU, he was a breath of fresh air in his honesty and integrity. He was straight-up honest.
this case is now shaping up to somewhat resemble the ''Operation Pretense '' money kick back scheme of the 1980s when 98% of county supervisors in mississippi were indicted.
however this case is not nearly as strong and colette knows the playbook of the government in this sort of case as he was with the UNITED states attorneys office in the 1980s during operation pretense.
colette has read there book and he will know just how to rebut these charges all using the scumbag witness produced by not him , but the government.
rudy might as well go ahead and ice down the champagne for the victory party.
the sour grape witness losers are not believable.
of course none of the juvenile readership on this blog will remember anything about operation pretense, but you juvies dont worry , just keep spouting your juvie comments showing what uneducated punks that you are.
Did they at least get a going-away party...with some "imported" wine?
Back to the name Jerome MIles.. who is he? Why/ how did he get involved?
@10:47 Jerome Miles is the brother of longtime CMU office employee Jewelry Johnson. Jewelry has worked at CMU for over 40 years.
I did not know he was relation to Jewelry.
Also:
A Jerome Miles of Canton MS received a subpoena to produce documents, information or objects by Plaintiff WARNOCK ENGINEERING, LLC, ET AL in February of 2018 in
WARNOCK ENGINEERING, LLC, ET AL Plaintiff v. CANTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES, ET AL
https://www.scribd.com/document/611869231/Jerome-Miles-Subpoena
9:25, By "tribe" you mean race, right? Because everything eventually boils down to race with some people.
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