Villa Hills special counsel Phil Taliaferro is following several disturbing trails in his investigation of Mayor Mike Martin. It may have only taken nine months for Martin to create a real mess and put the taxpayers in tremendous liability.
Here's the question. Will Martin be able to use his "I didn't know then but I know now" card again? Transcripts of depositions show that tactic worked very well for Martin when he was dealing with his forgery charge a few years ago. Remember? The charge that precipitated a $1.505 million lawsuit by Martin against the taxpayers of Villa Hills and two police officers.
While two courts ruled that Martin's lawsuit was baseless, his forgery charges were dropped. Next he weaved a tremendous, and totally false, story of victimhood that propelled him to the mayor's office.
Will Martin plead victimhood again when the facts are presented to the public? The mayor's wife already began to lay out that defense at the last council meeting. Martin actually had to gavel his wife quiet during an outburst when she claimed that there is a conspiracy underway to "get" her husband.
No one has ever confused Mike Martin with Albert Einstein. But does simplicity offer a free pass to disregard doing what is right? We will learn the answer to that question soon enough
