Cynthia Finch’s Blackberry
Check out the TBI subpoena for items issued to Cynthia Finch by Knox County. It’s part of the ongoing investigation of Ms. Finch by Memphis Special Prosecutor William Bright.
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The Cynthia Finch show moves to Shelby County
Randy Nichols has recused his office from investigating Cynthia Finch, and the matter will now be looked into by a Shelby County asst DA who specializes in white collar crime.
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Where Cynthia Finch succeeded and where she failed
Conservative KNS columnist Greg Johnson on Cynthia Finch’s written response to the Knox County p-card audit:
If the response was intended to absolve Finch, it failed miserably. If Finch’s goal was to lay some public groundwork for a racial and/or sexual discrimination lawsuit, she may have made points but at the expense of appearing to play [...]
Read More..>>Cynthia Finch fires back
LVG’s thoughts on Cynthia Finch’s mammoth letter bomb from Wednesday afternoon:
After wading through a 26-page letter and 11 “exhibits” prepared by Cynthia Finch’s lawyer for the edification of her former boss and anyone else who cares to read the documents, I came to these conclusions:
1. This is a shot across the bow, a preview of [...]
Cynthia Finch has a brand new gig
Her title: President of Development and Strategic Planning for Knoxville staffing and employment agency Workforce 2000 Staffing Inc.
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What will Ragsdale say?
Folks around town are pretty curious to find out what Mayor Ragsdale will say at his 30 minute press conference scheduled for this afternoon. Will he take questions? Will he address the Cynthia Finch matter?
Sources tell me he is likely to stick to this talking point: the funds represented by missing receipts and questionable spending [...]
Point/Counterpoint in the Finch p-card affair
Cynthia Finch says she never asked anyone to make fake receipts. The man who admits making them says otherwise.
It will be interesting to hear from Mayor Ragsdale at tomorrow afternoon’s press conference.
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Sharp-eyed WBIR.com readers help solve a p-card mystery
This is the power of new media at work:
Until now, the events surrounding the creation of these false invoices were unknown. However, 10News has learned how and where the false invoices were created.
When we posted copies of the false FedEx Kinkos invoices to WBIR.com last Friday, a sharp-eyed reader noticed that the zip code given [...]
It’s not all about the MISSING p-card receipts
From the KNS today:
In the period covered by the audit, the mayor and the six staffers charged $55,519 in meals, $49,735 in lodging, $20,169 in air fare, $14,224 in conferences and $3,036 in memberships.
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FedEx Kinko’s not happy about Finch p-card invoices
A FedEx Kinko’s spokesperson says the fact that their logo was apparently used to create fake invoices covering p-card purchases for Cynthia Finch isn’t sitting too well with them:
Robertson told 10News the invoices were not authentic. She said the ones they use for corporate clients contain much more detail.
She couldn’t say whether FedEx Kinko’s will [...]
Finchisms
They’re starting to crop up.
Byron at Knoxville Trivia Blog explains his recent blogging absence thusly:
Nope, I ain’t quit, I’ve just been busier than Cynthia Finch at a Kinkos buy one receipt get one free sale…
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Knox County government revealed!
Wow.
This explains a lot:
“So once we started looking into Knox County government, it became obvious it was bogus. $29,000 in sorority sleepovers at county expense? Commissioners calling each other ‘peckerhead’ and ‘university twit’ and citing the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem witch trials to protest ethics policies? A commission chairman speaks English like it’s [...]
Read More..>>A damning indictment of Ragsdale
Larry Van Guilder is pulling no punches in his summary of why he thinks Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale is “guilty, guilty, guilty:”
The clamor surrounding Cynthia Finch, the woman the Mayor once compared to Jesus, may prove just loud enough to drown out the cries for Hizzoner’s head. That would be a travesty, not because [...]
Knox County v. Cynthia Finch
John Owings has asked the court to prevent Cynthia Finch from taking home her rather large final paycheck until the matter of around $13,000 in undocumented spending is cleared up:
according to Owings, Finch’s final paycheck hadn’t been released to her, and the embattled former Community Services Director was demanding the funds be turned over.
Owings said [...]
So are all Knox County taxpayers now Club LeConte members?
That’s what commenter Mainchannel is asking at the KNS:
Seeing that Finch has made monthly payments to Club LeConte and is a member with a Knox County owned credit card, does this mean all of Knox county are members? I like to go up there, just don’t want to pay monthly dues.
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Read More..>>Most interesting charges in draft audit report?
In reviewing the individual charges listed in the newly released draft audit report, different people are struck by different items, not all of them “big ticket” purchases. For example, one of the commenters on the story at WBIR.com says:
My favorite questionable expense was from Requitta Bone’s account, www.flashingblinkylights.com
And I found one from November of [...]
Read More..>>BREAKING: Serious concerns raised in Ragsdale draft audit release
Read the complete draft audit at WBIR.com
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Ragsdale resignation rumors redux
As I mentioned the other day, rumors that Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale would soon resign were circulating madly last week, although when asked, Mike Arms said there was no truth whatsoever to the speculation.
Now George Korda weighs in on the still-out-there talk about an imminent Ragsdale resignation:
More potential trouble for Ragsdale could stem from [...]
A farewell to Cynthia Finch
Larry Van Guilder ponders Finch’s departure:
To many, Finch had come to represent everything they despised about the Ragsdale administration. Recently she accused certain local media outlets of racism and sexism in their coverage of her travails. Then, for good measure, she tossed in the Knox County Commission.
How sincere she was in playing the race and [...]
$10,000 to see the big UT-Memphis match-up
Wow. Some seats for the big game are going for ten grand.
That’s almost as much as Cynthia Finch’s final Knox County paycheck.
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