They don’t make shackles tight enough!
http://www.kentucky.com/989/story/656407.html
http://www.kentucky.com/989/story/657444.html
http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/668576.html
Some of the highlights:
Former Lexington Blue Grass Airport executive director Michael A. Gobb has returned items he had that belonged to the airport, including a 12-gauge shotgun and its case and an XM-audio system. Also returned were a Gateway laptop computer and power cord, a Dell desktop computer with a mouse and keyboard, a portable aviation radio, a vehicle security flag, a power inverter and a Guinness butane lighter
Gobb and his four lieutenants spent well over half a million dollars in three years on travel and other expenditures all charged to the airport
Coon and Slone, who charged a total of $5,080 on their airport-issued credit cards at a Texas strip club one night in 2004
Gobb might have used airport money to purchase original artwork that was unaccounted for
The airport retrieved some airport property from the four who resigned, including SUVs and cell phones
[Cobb]…to reimburse the airport for items and services including plane tickets that he bought for people who were not airport employees, and a Mount Sterling Applebee’s restaurant tab that came to more than $230.
The three directors resigned just days after the Herald-Leader reported that they had charged items ranging from electronic toys to Hannah Montana concert tickets to their airport credit cards.
The board … gave former airport executive director Michael Gobb a $10,000 advance in July, the same month that he requested a leave of absence because of a “serious health condition.” Airport credit card billing statements indicate that Gobb, his wife, Kristina Gobb, and Brian Ellestad, the airport’s director of marketing and community relations, flew from Lexington to Tucson, Ariz., on the same day that Gobb requested a medical leave.
A $455 one-way ticket to Tucson on July 19 for Gobb was charged on Ellestad’s airport credit card. Round-trip tickets for Ellestad and Kristina Gobb were also charged on Ellestad’s card, the total for the two coming to $2,626.
Former Blue Grass Airport executive director Michael A. Gobb flew to Hawaii this month using a $1,900 business-class ticket purchased by the airport a ticket he had been told not to use after he resigned Jan. 2.
Gobb was making nearly $220,000 a year and the airport provided him with health insurance.