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BRUCE MOORE'S BEHAVIOR WOULD MAKE FOR GOOD TRASH TV
Longtime employees at Little Rock City Hall have told us that City Manager Bruce Moore had two other affairs that wrecked marriages like the one we posted about on December 30th. You can view that post by clicking here.
One of his alleged victims is the ex-wife of a minister of music at a prominent Little Rock church and the other holds a doctorate in education and worked in a local school district.
We are in the process of investigating these additional allegations and will post information as it is verified.
We urge any city employee, male or female, that might have been a victim of sexual harassment or unwanted sexual advances perpetrated by Moore to contact us.
A MONTH LATER AND LRPD HAS MADE LITTLE PROGRESS IN SOLVING TRIPLE HOMICIDE
Other than two trips to Chicago to speak with a person of interest being held on unrelated charges in the Cook County jail, Little Rock Police have made little progress in solving the December 5th murders of Moriah Cunningham and two of her children, A'laylaih and Elijah Fisher.
On December 30th, we sent this request for comments to last term mayor Mark Stodola:
As usual, Stodola refused to reply.
We also sent a FOI request for travel reimbursement for LRPD officers for the month of December and the records reveal that detectives made two trips to Chicago.
You can view the documents LRPD provided by clicking here.
Detectives Terry McDaniel and Matthew Hoffine traveled there on December 8th and McDaniel traveled there again on December 19th.
McDaniel is known for his use of deadly force on two occasions. You can read about those incidents by clicking here and here.
After our request for comments from Stodola and the travel records from LRPD,
LRPD released a statement confirming that detectives had been to Chicago to talk with a "person of interest".
Back in December, after activists and community leaders held a prayer vigil and city leaders were blasted for lack of concern.
Then when city leadership chose to watch the launching of the U.S.S. Little Rock at the Ron Robinson Theater instead of attending the funeral for the murdered family, city leaders were blasted again.
To show that they cared, the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction was increased to $50,000 from the standard $10,000.
Community leaders banned together to plea for witnesses to step up and provide information to LRPD. Again city leadership was nowhere to be found.
As community leaders and activist have stated, would these murders not have been solved by now if they had occurred in West Little Rock or the victims had been white?
Those are good questions and ones that need to be discussed.
ACCORDING TO CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES INSIDE LR CITY HALL THIS IS NOT MOORE'S FIRST TIME TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING A HOME WRECKER
According to Johnny Ashford, his wife, Octavia Ashford divorced him after she began an affair with her boss city manager Bruce Moore. Mr. Ashford also claims that Octavia obtained positions that she was not qualified to hold because of her special relationship with Moore.
You can view Octavia's employment documents with the city of Little Rock by clicking here.
Octavia Ashford is an Accounts Payable Supervisor with the City of Little Rock Finance Department.
OCTAVIA ASHFORD'S DRIVERS LICENSE PROVIDED BY LRPD IN AN UNRELATED FOI RESPONSE
She obtained this position earning $57,000 a year with no college degree and little supervisory experience.
Johnny Ashford initially wanted to provide us with a recording he made of his now ex-wife admitting to her affair with Moore.
But once we sent a FOI request to the city for certain documents, our confidential inside city hall sources told us that city manager Bruce Moore ordered the IT department to delete certain emails to cover up the trail. Mr. Ashford tried to get us to not expose what Moore had done. No doubt Bruce and Octavia threatened poor Mr. Ashford or made threats about visitation with his children.
Moore refused to respond to emails asking him about the adulterous affair with a married city employee.
This
was quite telling in that he quickly responded for befouled LRPD Chief
Kenton Tremar Buckner when we asked for information about a report of Buckner being locked in handcuffs at this residence and having an officer respond to free him.
MOORE DENIED BUCKNER GOT LOCKED IN HANDCUFFS
We had to make repeated demands to the city of Little Rock to respond to our FOI request and they were not cooperative at all. No surprise there.
City of Little Rock Human Resource manager Stacey Witherell told Carpenter she had a copy of an email that Mr. Ashford sent to several city email accounts. We knew this to be the case as Johnny Ashford told us that he had sent at least two separate emails complaining about Moore's adulterous affair with his wife.
City Attorney Tom Carpenter claims he never received the email Witherell stated she would forwarded to him.
Then when pressed again Carpenter stated they did not have to provide that email and that the FOI request was closed. Hardly, we will see you in court Tommy Boy.
City Manager Bruce Moore sees no problem with having given away $10,000 of our money as a no-strings-attached bonus to two police academy graduates who left employment after a few months. He does not want to implement any stipulations about the receipt of the bonus as he says it has not been a problem so far and having stipulations might impact filling vacant position in the police department.
Add to that the fact that he can't keep it in his pants and has an affair with a married city employee is another reason for his removal from office.
PRINGLES & HAAGEN DAZS ARE BUCKNER'S TRAVEL COMFORT FOODS
Befouled LRPD Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner has racked up a whopping $43k in travel expenditures since he was hired in 2014 by City Manager Bruce Moore over the objections of many long time LRPD officers and concerned citizens.
Click here to view all reports from November 2014 through November 2017.
The records reveal that Buckner often travels with overweight luggage and often does not obtain receipts for checking in his luggage or for taxi rides, instead providing a memo in which he provides an excuse for his lack of obtaining a receipt - he usually blames the taxi or shuttle driver. It's never his fault.
The records also show that he often has a late night snack in his room and with an alcoholic beverage. He also appears to be fond of Pringles and Haagen Dazs ice cream.
Buckner attended a course at Harvard at the cost of over $14k to the citizens of Little Rock. The course was on Executive Leadership.
Surely Bruce Moore justified the questionable hiring of Buckner back in 2014 by finding he was already "leader", enough of one to head the Little Rock Police Department. Why then was he sent to this school to learn how to be a leader?
CITY MANAGER BRUCE MOORE TOUTED BUCKNER'S EXPERTISE IN A 2015 ARTICLE
This is what Buckner had to say about his own abilities.
More than likely Buckner took the course to fluff up his resume so he would appear more attractive to his next employer.
Hard to see how the curriculum would benefit the city or citizens of Little Rock.
What a foolish waste of public funds. But Moore is used to doing that. Apparently Buckner uses the rank of General in addition to his title of chief.
And his attendance at a Mayor's Conference is just as questionable. While certainly not as extravagant and costly as the Harvard class, there no mention on the program of Buckner being a speaker and he is not a mayor.
Another shocking find was that Buckner, who has long questioned the need for the Little Rock Black Police Officer's Association ("BPOA"), has used our money to maintain memberships and attend conferences for the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives ("NOBLE") and the National Forum for Black Public Administrators ("NFBPA").
This is an example of why the BPOA, and most of Little Rock's citizens, have little trust or respect for the hypocritical, befouled police chief. Coming up, we will have more posts that detail additional reasons for the removal of Chief Buckner and his toady, home-wrecking City Manager Bruce Moore. #CleanOutLRCityHall #TimeForChange #ReplaceOrRecall
MAYOR MARK "SKIPPER" STODOLA AT LAUNCHING OF USS LITTLE ROCK
We recently posted about the noticeable absence of city leadership (except for Director Ken Richardson) at the vigil held a week ago for Moriah Cunningham and her two children, A'Laylaih and Elijah Fisher.
So one would expect many of our city leaders to attend the funeral to make up for their absence at the vigil.
Nope. Only Director Ken Richardson was there.
We know where last term mayor Mark Stodola was.
He was strutting in front of TV cameras trying to dodge questions about the crime rate, racial tension and 55 murders that have happened this year in Little Rock.
It's a good thing for Stodola that he has us blocked from commenting on his Facebook page; we would have shamed him to no end.
Where was City Manager Bruce Moore?
Where was the befouled Chief of Police Kenton Tremar Bucker? Where were the other board of directors? Who knows. Maybe they were at the Ron Robinson Theater watching the live stream of the USS Little Rock launching. We do know where the voters will be next November - voting those absent leaders out of office.
After we called them out for their lack of concern to connect with and support citizens, the city increased the standard $10,000 reward the city offers for information that leads to the arrest and conviction in homicide cases to $50,000 on Wednesday.
LRPD's effort is touching, but they spelled A'Laylaih's name incorrectly.
LRPD spokesman Steve Moore would not say whether the large reward means detectives are
close to the suspect or at a dead end.
LRPD SPOKESMAN STEVE MOORE
Little Rock city leaders are not helping close the racial divide in the city. Their actions are widening it.
We wonder why the "Pissing Policeman" was not fired using the same reasoning.
The other recruit fired in connection with the Schiefelbein Scandal has sought an opinion from the Arkansas Attorney General objecting to the release of his file.
We will post his file once the AG says it's releasable.
It is time for change in leadership at the police department and city hall.
According to information obtained from LRPD, they have fired racist recruit Brandon Schieffelbein and scapegoat recruit Brandon Gurley.
The city took the cowards way out after befouled LRPD Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner had a "luncheon" meeting with Robert Newcomb, an attorney reportedly hired by the mostly white Fraternal Order of Police to represent Schiffelbein.
This matter comes at at time when a vast majority of citizens are questioning the fitness and ability of LRPD Chief Buckner and City Manger Bruce Moore, who often covers for Buckner, to remain in their respective positions.
What will happen with Officer Zeb Tyler? He is the officer that we revealed had accused Mayor Mark Stodoal and City Manager Bruce Moore of stealing public funds. Tyler also made questionable posts similar to that of Schieffelbein.
We will have posts in the coming days that reveal startling new information about befouled Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner, information that City Manager Bruce Moore and Buckner did not want us to obtain.
