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Attorney General’s Investigator Allegedly Lied In Several Cases
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A state attorney general’s investigator now under scrutiny by his office has been accused at least three times of lying to grand juries.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/attorney-general-jack-conway/)
A state attorney general’s investigator now under scrutiny by his office has been accused at least three times of lying to grand juries.
In one of his last acts in office, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway issued a ruling last week that paves the way for public officials to use private cell phones to carry out public business.
Beshear came under fire this summer after he failed to appoint a single African-American member to the board. Attorney General Jack Conway had previously issued an opinion that the board was out of line with state law.
Attorney General Jack Conway has deemed Gov. Steve Beshear’s appointments to the University of Louisville board illegal due to a lack of racial diversity. Conway’s opinion may tip his hand regarding another case up for review: politically-lopsided university boards.
Gubernatorial candidates from both parties have come out swinging against Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s appointments to the University of Louisville’s Board of Trustees.
Black community leaders want Attorney General Jack Conway to examine whether Gov. Steve Beshear skirted state law in not selecting a single African-American for the University of Louisville’s Board of Trustees.
The university for a year refused to release the financial review, which found a system susceptible to fraud. This week, the school settled a public records lawsuit brought on by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.
The public institution has repeatedly denied, delayed or failed to release materials that we believe are responsive to our public records requests.
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting has been locked for months in a public records battle with the University of Louisville over its refusal to release documents related to high-profile financial examination of the school.
The University of Louisville has responded to a request by the state attorney general to justify its refusal to turn over documents to the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, in the latest step in an ongoing battle over public records. In a letter dated July 18, U of L’s outside counsel said KyCIR’s public records appeal is moot since university officials earlier this month made public its final audit report. The report by Strothman and Company, a Louisville-based auditing firm, examines the school’s financial controls and was ordered after a series of high-profile thefts at the institution. University officials presented a final version of the report to the board of trustees audit committee on July 2, the same day school officials were required to respond to Attorney General Jack Conway and provide a copy of the draft report and other related information. Since the report was considered final July 2, that document was provided to the attorney general’s office, not any draft report.