Let's look at our courthouse sources' accounting of what really happened in seriatim:
- The investigation in to Martin signing a deceased person's name on that deceased person's checks and then cashing them definitely began in Hamilton County, Ohio. The Villa Hills Police Department only became involved after they were contacted by Hamilton County. Assistant Police Chief Joe Schutzman spoke with then Councilman Martin once about the matter, and then Martin "lawyered up". The information that had been gathered by Hamilton County and The Villa Hills Police Department was taken to the Kenton County Attorney's Office.
- The Kenton County Attorney's Office drew up FORGERY CHARGES against Martin and took them to a judge who signed off on an ARREST WARRANT for Martin.
- Contrary to the fable Martin has told numerous people, he was not arrested and put in handcuffs by Assistant Chief Joe Schutzman. Martin was not stuffed in to Schutzman's police cruiser and hauled down to the Kenton County Justice Center. No, it was handled far more diplomatically. Police Chief Dan Goodenough actually phoned Martin and advised him of the ARREST WARRANT that had been issued for the little liar. According to our courthouse sources, Goodenough carefully explained the next steps Martin should take to deal with the ARREST WARRANT. After putting on a white shirt and tie, Martin actually turned himself in at the Justice Center and was processed in less than an hour.
- Our courthouse sources tell us that the judge who signed off on Martin's ARREST WARRANT and heard the subsequent legal proceedings determined that Martin was simply too stupid to understand what he had done and eventually dismissed the charges with the proviso that the now-diminutive dictator fix the many legal problems he had created by signing a deceased person's name on that deceased person's checks and then cashing them.
- Our courthouse sources tell us that the Kenton County Attorney's Office did not share the judge's belief that Martin was simply a mindless idiot who didn't know what he was doing was a CRIMINAL ACT. We are told that the Kenton County Attorney's Office wanted to go directly to a grand jury to ask for a FORGERY INDICTMENT against Martin.
- Here's where the irony begins. The two people who talked the Kenton County Attorney's Office out of going to the grand jury to ask for a FORGERY INDICTMENT against Martin were Villa Hills Police Chief Dan Goodenough and Assistant Chief Joe Schutzman. Why? Because they simply wanted the whole sordid matter to come to an end. Goodenough and Schutzman were trying to spare the City they had taken an oath to protect from further embarrassment. Despite the fact that one of the City's councilmembers was signing a deceased person's name on that deceased person's checks and cashing them. We get that.
Our courthouse sources also told us that the Kenton County Attorney's Office also explored the possibility of pursuing a FORGERY INDICTMENT against Martin after the diminutive dictator's flimsy lawsuit was thrown out of court twice and judges reviewing the lawsuit opined that what Martin did "fit the very definition of FORGERY".
These are the reasons that the misdirecting Martin continues to waste TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS pursuing his personal vendetta against the Villa Hills Police Department. The voters of Villa Hills are now the only ones with the power to stop Martin's vicious vendetta.
They'll get that chance in 276 days from Friday's Chinese New Year celebration.
