Mayor’s Office Targets Whistleblower
Filed Monday, September 10, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Following revelations last week that Streets Department employees have been working on private jobs on public time and with public equipment, another city worker, Sterling McKinney, told Channel 4 News of how three years ago he was ordered by his supervisor to pave the driveway of a city business.
He told Channel 4 that it is common for low-level workers like him to be ordered to do such “high-profile jobs.” For fear of losing their jobs, he said, the workers comply.
When informed about McKinney’s allegations, Ed Rhode, spokesman for Mayor Francis Slay said he was happy to hear McKinney “confessed his wrongdoing.”
“We all know this is wrong and we plan to turn this information over to the Circuit Attorney for prosecution,” said Rhode, suggesting that the whistleblower may soon need to find himself a lawyer.
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