Metro Council members were shocked last night during a committee meeting when Metro Animal Services director Gilles Meloche responded to a routine question by saying that his department is conducting an internal review because some public records may have been intentionally lost.
But that's only a part of the story.
Fox41's Bennett Haeberle, who's been following Meloche's antics for months, got brushed off during an interview after the meeting. You should watch it, but here's what Heaberle said as Meloche walked away.
"I'm not done. I've got a couple more questions. You're going to dodge questions?" he asks. Yes, he is.
Kelly Downard, the Metro Council member who conducted the meeting, was equally astounded by Meloche's comments.
"I don't know what's going on, but there's something going on," he said today. "It was a surprise to everyone there."
The meeting was to have focused on an internal audit being conducted by the city's auditor, Mike Norman. He reported that there were inadequate controls and that it was impossible to accurately track revenue from a test program Meloche was operating with a Middletown company, AAA.
To that, Meloche insisted that no money had been lost because ". . . everything has been checked."
But another shoe is set to drop tonight. Sources tell me that a former contract vet for MAS, Kendall Clay, has done an interview with WLKY-TV that will air at 6. The source tells me that Clay has filed a sexual harassment complaint against Meloche and will reveal other damaging allegations about Meloche.
Meloche was formally reprimanded early this year after a sexual harassment complaint by Dawn Simpson, a former employee now living in Ohio. Simpson left MAS shortly after the August floods. Clay, according to our source, is leaving town as well for the same Ohio city in which Simpson now lives.
The source claims Meloche faces a third sexual harassment allegation from a current employee.
Last night, county attorney Matt Lemme, representing MAS, refused to answer questions from Downard about the situation.
I've lived in lots of big cities all around this country, but never have I seen the local dog catcher lead the news with one big disaster story after another the way this guy does!
Thank you, Mayor Abramson, for yet another stunning hire for Metro Louisville. I just can't wait to see what you have in store for the rest of the state now that you have set your sights on Frankfort. God, help us all!
Everyone always complains when a crook is revealed... When someone can show me an HONEST politician, I will have seen it all. Wake up people, and stop pretending like ANY politician can be trusted. The entire US Gov't is crooked... what makes this guy any different?
Chase Masters #299172
fri oct 23 2009
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Well Misses maybe you're the only person in the world that's not crooked. But you'll forgive the rest of us that hope that more than one person besides you isn't. If you aren't then don't rat on your brothers.
Metro Council members were shocked last night during a committee meeting when Metro Animal Services director Gilles Meloche responded to a routine question by saying that his department is conducting an internal review because some public records may have been intentionally lost.
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