Author: Chris Osher
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Longmont pays off woman’s $1,592 toll bill that a narcotics sergeant rang up by using stolen license plate
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The city of Longmont has paid the $1,592.72 E-470 toll bill a woman faced, responding to reporting by The Gazette on the toll charges that accrued after a Longmont police sergeant used a license plate stolen from the woman. Sgt. Stephen Schulz, who also is…
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CDOT spent at least $3.2 billion through procurement practices in past decade that didn’t rely on traditional low-bid pricing
Over roughly the past decade at least $3.2 billion of the state’s transportation constructions projects used “alternative delivery” programs that steered clear of strict low-bid procedures, sending about 80% of that money to projects involving two contractors, a review of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s procurement processes by The Gazette found. The newspaper’s review further…
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State fraud hotline generates investigations that rarely see light of day
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado auditors have been investigating for more than two years whether fraud occurred at the Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office when Wayne Williams headed it as an elected official. Williams, a Republican who lost his re-election bid for secretary of state in 2018 and is…
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Colorado pays $406,000 to settle claims of warden whose pay was docked after helping bust guard in contraband scheme
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Angel Medina, with more than 20 years of experience with the Colorado Department of Corrections, had at least two threats on his life for trying to clean up the illegal drug trafficking and other contraband flowing into the Fremont Correctional Facility in Cañon City, records…
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Colorado’s judicial branch mum on details of alleged settlement between Court of Appeals judge, law clerk
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Results of fraud audit into Colorado judicial misconduct memo may never become public
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court this week handed over for investigation to the Colorado State Auditor’s Office a memo detailing nearly two dozen instances of judicial and administrator misconduct at the heart of an alleged $2.72 million hush money contract scandal, but the public may never…
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Colorado judicial system makes public memo detailing alleged misconduct in alleged hush money contract
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Judges in Colorado — apparently including members of the state’s Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court — have engaged in personal misconduct without repercussions, according to the contents of a memo Colorado’s judicial system made public Monday. The memo details sexual relationships between a…
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CDOT supervisor: ‘We don’t do things here that comply with the rules’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Dec. 14, 2018 at 3:51 p.m. John Olson, an appraisal supervisor for the Colorado Department of Transportation, sent an email to an employee he managed. At issue was the employee’s urgent complaint that proper appraisal procedures weren’t being used by “good ole boys” at…
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Sentence reduced for abused teen who got life for killing Denver police officer in 1995
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver District Attorney Beth McCann decided “extraordinary mitigating circumstances” warranted the reduction in the sentence — and eventual release from prison — of a man sentenced as a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the fatal shooting of a Denver police officer.…
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Marijuana biz that pitched plans to become “largest” in U.S. built through fraud, theft and deceit, lawsuit alleges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A lucrative network of marijuana dispensaries and grow facilities that attracted the attention of national media profiling Colorado’s new pot barons was built with money stolen from investors in a fraudulent fix and flip real…