Lest we think that the "safe-cracking" incident was an isolated act of stupidity . . .
The company who had been servicing Villa Hills' computer system for many years was dismissed shortly after Martin took office. This was not a cost-saving measure. Why? Because Martin immediately brought in another company. No big deal, right? After all, Martin is the mayor and has that right. But subsequent events raise questions about Martin's real motivations.
Sources say that on-duty police officers witnessed someone remotely manipulating their computers at least three times. We have also been advised that the Chief of Police made an official request to the City Attorney to investigate the reason for the remote accessing of their computers. The police computer files contain highly sensitive information after all. It is also our understanding that to date no official response has been received by the Chief.
So what was taking place? There are several theories. One theory holds that someone may have been assisting Martin in a search for information. Remember, Martin had an active lawsuit against two police officers and the taxpayers at that time. So, as this first theory goes, Martin might have been looking for a "smoking gun" that would help him make his case.
Another theory is more shocking. Some suggest that Martin wasn't looking for information. Instead, he may have had someone attempting to plant bogus information. Once again, the motivation would be finding a cooked-up "smoking gun" that would lead to lawsuit victory.
So who would this "someone" helping Martin be? That we don't know. What we do know is that at least one Martin-hire contract employee has a key to the city building and has been seen entering the city building after hours on several occasions.
We expect special counsel Phil Taliaferro to get to the bottom of this as well.
