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THE WHOLE TRUTH?

A lot of Marion County residents are scratching their heads at the latest developments down at city hall. No, it doesn’t involve Council President Monroe Gray. Although the latest news regarding him is that an arbitrator is ordering him to pay $600,000 to his former business partner as a result of a labor dispute, but I digress.

This involves City-County Council Member Ron Gibson. A local judge dismissed disorderly conduct and battery charges against him for the allegedly shoving an off duty Marion County detective during Black Expo last year. Gibson and his attorneys say the charges were dropped because there was not enough evidence to secure a conviction, particularly that several witness depositions did not back up Jean Burkert’s story. However sources within the police department are telling me a different story.

My sources say the internal affairs report confirms the detective’s version of the events. In addition they also tell me that several witnesses were “encouraged” to change their testimony over time and that the manager of the bar where the incident occurred might have fallen under undue pressure and influence. Also the city’s legal department came under heavy criticism for their role in events and the special prosecutor in the case is quoted as saying he has never seen politics play a role in a criminal case like he did in the one involving Gibson.

Believe whom you will but my sources in this area tend to be pretty reliable. The sad part of all this is the only way we may ever get to the real truth is if a grand jury or the FBI gets involved. Who knows, that day may be closer than we think.

  • Gary Welsh

    “the only way we may ever get to the real truth is if a grand jury or the FBI gets involved.”

    Dream on Abdul, This is Indianapolis, not Chicago. I’ve lived here 17 years and I’m still waiting to see signs of life indicating there is actually a public integrity section in either our local FBI office or U.S. Attorney’s office. This case has been pending for more than a year. Why weren’t these key witnesses’ testimony locked down in sworn statements or depositions when charges were first brought? The case gets tossed once because the prosecutor’s office didn’t file the proper paperwork for the appointment of a special prosecutor. He waits months on end to refile the charges. After he refiles the case, Gibson’s attorney has to push for a speedy trial, only to learn that the prosecutor isn’t ready for trial (i.e. eyewitnesses being deposed the week before trial). What a waste of taxpayer resources.

  • crazy

    abdul

    you have got to be kidding me. brizzi’s office can not win a thing if you were a real journalist you would investigate his conviction rate or lack thereof or see how much experience his lawyers have because no one wants to work for him..

    also where on your blog is any comments about state rep. mike murphy and leaving the scene of an accident .. i believe that is a crime as well but you fail to cover that.

    some fair and balance journalist you are .. go hang out at the strip clubs with your council buddy…

  • David Schroeder

    Crazy:

    I guess you must have to eat a little crow in regards to Abdul. He did post about Mike Murphy and it does not appear that he pulled any punches.

    By the way, who are Abdul’s Council buddies that hang out at the strip clubs with him?

  • varangianguard

    Teaser.

  • crazy

    well if you want to know it is a republican councilor from the southeast side of the county.
    does that help you? he loves to go to a certain westside club. either the girls are prettier there or it is farther away from his voters in franklin township

    isnt that right abdul??

  • LEO

    If you read into the Red Star article this morning, front page, bottom, you’ll see who the special dem-o-crat prosecutor depo’d.
    Low and behold the two eyewitnesses that could not make the case against Gibson was his “aunt and friend”!
    Sounds like he stopped before he could depo anyone who might have really saw the truth! I smell a dirty rat!

  • Anonymous

    from the indy star:

    “Brown is a Democrat. He has rejected Gibson’s complaints that politics played a role in the case.”

    almost exactly the opposite of what abdul says here.

  • varangianguard

    I saw on WTHR that Ron Gibson released a statement saying that the special prosecutor found “no evidence” of wrongdoing on Mr. Gibson’s part.

    Whoa! Even my head is spinning over that whopper. I think instead that the special prosecutor said that he had found insufficient evidence to convict.

    I’m not a lawyer, and neither is Mr. Gibson, but jeesh! I can tell the difference between those two concepts, why can’t Mr. Gibson? Maybe Mr. Haith should have better vetted Mr. Gibson’s statement? I guess that the appearance of lying or that he is too ignorant to appreciate a legal distinction is just business as usual for those three.

  • Jason

    Mr. Shabazz you’re single right? Which means you can go to any nudie bar you want and I don’t really see it as an issue. I work nights so I don’t catch your show in the mornings that often, but from what I’ve gathered you don’t exactly take the moral high ground on a lot of issues (though you usually find some other high ground, hehe.) Anyway, who cares if a single guy goes to a strip club or runs around with women all night?

    But isn’t Brizzi married?

  • crazy

    I believe that Abdul and that same council buddy hang out in gay bars together too.

    Isn’t that right abdul?

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