Pages tagged with Lexington

So far we've dealt with some of the politicians, prostitutes and police officers that are involved in Lexington's sex trafficking industry. I ran for city council in 2010 to bring attention to the corruption and government ties to the human trafficking industry. My campaign wound up ...

A few days after my most recent article, Politicians, prostitutes, priest and pedophiles: The Lexington Connection was published on Examiner.com it was referenced on another news site. A reader on that site pointed out an interesting fact. Googling Deborah Wardlaw only pulls up the ar...

Have you seen me? That is the question posed by the missing children ads on milk cartons and on the walls of the post office. Have you ever stopped, read one of those ads and wondered, "What happened to this child?" We know that some are taken by non-custodial parents and others by cr...

Kentucky becomes the latest state to reign in corrections costs by enacting sentencing reforms. Not to be outdone, a Texas county has gotten creative with drug sentencing in the case of Willie Nelson.

It was a cold, overcast and rainy day in Lexington, Kentucky for the MoveOn.Org "Defend the Dream" rally. I couldn't help but thinking that it matched the mood of America and the World right now.

Protests and regime changes are happening all across the Middle East and now we're seeing the unrest in America. Gas prices will rise and as they rise so will the price of eveything else and so will the crime rates.

While the Middle East demanded change from the dictatorships that created these conditions we are now seeing protests in America demanding better working conditions. Starting in Wisconsin and now in Ohio, Americans have started the spark that will eventually lead to real change in th...

Lexington is the second largest city in Kentucky. It offers many opportunities for job seekers.

WikiLeaks became famous for publishing submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. LexiLeaks plans to expand this idea to the state and local level in Kentucky.

The snow came early this year. Just as the 25 days of the Christmas season had begun Kentucky got a blanket of white. More than usual I'm in the Christmas spirit this year. However, too many of us will sit in jail this Christmas. Worse, some will sit in jail even though they will late...

A colleague of mine on another news site, Alicia Bryner, found these stats regarding police corruption and prostitution. From the Alternet article by Melissa Gira Grant titled " Hypocritical legal crusade against Craigslist will not solve violence against sex trafficking victims. htt...

Let us love. That was the writing on the shirt of a teenager at the Fox Elipsus concert at Dink's Cafe'. I needed a vacation from all of the investigations, corruption, murder, crime and courtroom hi-jinks that I typically report on. I owe thanks to a little girl named Josie for remi...

Ironically I had changed my company name in ads to American Dream Talent Management when I crossed criminal elements in the police force. So, you could say my American Dream was destroyed.

Let's continue along where we left off and piece together a tale of corruption, murder and organized crime.

On April 26, 2007 Lt. Keith Stevens of the Lexington-Fayette County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the home of my mother, Jane Hignite, with whom I live. My mother was there as was my youngest sibling, Brandon, a 27 year old man who was born with Downs Syndrome. Lt. Stevens told ...

My previous article discussed Mike Comberger and Fantasy's escorts. We talked about how, with the help of local police, Comberger has grown his escort agency into an international, multi-state agency. I mentioned that after Mr. Comberger found out that I was investigating his agency h...

Let's continue our investigation into the murder of Deborah Wardlaw by showing how Mike Comberger, owner of Fantasy's Escorts, became a national powerhouse among prostitutes and escort agencies with a little help from the Lexington police and former Fayette County Attorney, Margaret K...

My last article talked about my efforts to get the officers mentioned by Deborah Wardlaw investigated for her murder. Deborah had called me days prior to her murder to tell me that certain police officers had threatened her life. I cannot tell you how much it can haunt you to have rec...

How do you get a murder investigated when the most likely suspects are police officers? I don't know, you tell me. I tried an experiment after ten years of trying to get officers investigated for the murder of a prostitute. I decided to run for city council and use the opportunities t...

A reader questioned my claim that I had received a virus from a Facebook invitation and other claims in a recent article. I stated in the article that I would be gathering the information and posting it in an update to the article. Due to the possibility that others may question my cl...

It didn't take long after my last article for more marsupial madness to find it's way into the headlines. This time three famous monkeys join the fun in the municipal mansions we call the courthouse complex. See No Evil, Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil joined up with Fayette Commonweal...

Ray "The D.A." Larson claims that 99% of those accused of a crime are guilty of that crime. Lexington Mayor, Jim Newberry, recently claimed that people whose lives didn't make much of a difference in this world don't matter much. Police officers' lives, he claimed, now they matter, th...

In this series of articles we will explore the term 'Kangaroo Court' and I'll give examples from Lexington's Municipal Mansions otherwise known as the courthouse complex.

Lexington's legacy of corruption and vice has a long history and continues to this day. Lexington's ties to prostitution and corruption can be traced all the way back to it's founding. While Lexington cleaned up, at least on the surface, for years, these issues have found their way in...

I have been following the false arrests of Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh for some time now. I recently re-posted Lucian's blog detailing the shenanigans that he has dealt with in his most recent attempt at freedom. This has led to some interesting new developments.