As The Martin Chronicles has already reported, Villa Hills’ city council voted at the marathon December 21 meeting to expand the scope of Special Counsel Phil Talaiferro’s investigation into Mayor Mike Martin’s “questionable” activities. Always running behind, cincinnati.com posted an article about the investigation’s expansion on December 23. The cincinnat.com story contained several Martin “inaccuracies”. We are going to write about more of them in upcoming posts.
One of the expanded areas of inquiry involves Martin’s inexplicable removal of computers from the city building after council hired Special Counsel Phil Taliaferro. The Martin Chronicles first reported on this odd move by Martin in a November 3, 2011 post.
Well, never passing on an opportunity to tell a whopper, Martin told The Enquirer that he only removed “spare computers that nobody was using”. Is that a fact? So the computers Martin took off the desks of the clerks that they used every day were considered to be to be “spare computers nobody was using”?!? Oh, and that computer in the police department was “a spare computer nobody was using”?!? Uh-huh.
Martin obviously didn't know, or maybe care, what the Special Counsel has already learned about the computer removal before he started making excuses to the Enquirer.
Perhaps Martin was trying to convince the vine-swinging mouth-breathers who populate the civic club bar and the brutish Judge Executive Steve Arlinghaus that he was just “cleaning out the city closets”. Because the special counsel and anyone else with a triple-digit IQ who has been paying any attention to Martin’s antics aren’t buying it.
What Martin has managed to do with his “misrepresentation” to The Enquirer is increase the very justified suspicion that the computers were removed for nefarious reasons. Martin’s unusual actions and the “fabrications” he is telling about them are increasing the odds that the Special Counsel’s investigation will evolve into a Special Prosecutor examination of possible criminal activity.
Hiding something are we, Mr. Martin?
