Grand Jury Indicts Two, Including Kentucky GOP Treasurer

[Roland99]

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4006308

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- A special grand jury investigating state hiring practices has indicted Kentucky Republican Party Treasurer Dave Disponett and party official J. Marshall Hughes on charges of criminal conspiracy and political discrimination.

The charges are the first outside of state government in the investigation that has been going on for months. Disponett and Hughes are close supporters of Gov. Ernie Fletcher and there names have appeared frequently in e-mail exchanges about job candidates.

Disponett is a Lawrenceburg builder. For more than the first year of Fletcher's administration, Disponett had an office in the state Capitol, as well as a state-provided secretary and prime parking place. Fletcher has said Disponett consulted on hiring political appointees.

Hughes is a Bowling Green lawyer, whose firm has offices around the state and specializes in injury lawsuits. He is listed on the party Web site as being a district chairman.

I love seeing this article esp. at WAVE 3 given their General Manager is such a * lover.

[alfredo]

1. this, Tom DeLay, Plame, Frist, and Noe.... Oh my!

I think I am getting a chubby.