I Goofed!
I meant to ask, Where did the money go before 2002? Mr.Parrish said on October 13, 2004, ''The Village is in the best Financial Shape it has ever been in.''
Michael Russolillo said on December 12, 2000, ''We're still in the best financial shape we've been in years.''
How come the Village was ''broke''? It owed IRS, sheriff housing since 1998, pension funds, workman's comp. Whose finances was Russolillo speaking?
Petro, ''the state questioned some financial procedures for 1998 and 1999.'' ''Checks were not accuratly recorded in the village computer records.'' ''The village failed to pay $20,000 into the state Public Employment Retirement System.'' ''The records examined are for Jan. 1, 2000, to Dec.31, 2001 and lack invoices, time sheets and purchase orders for 60 expenditures. The records show an unreconciled cash balance and unexplained adjustments.''
Mr. Parrish wrote to the Westside Messenger, ''Teddy Rossevelt, in a speech he gave to the House of Representatives on April 14, 1906 said, ''There are, in the body politic, economic, ans social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of the attack upon every evil man, whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.'' This applies today as it did more than 96 years ago.
I truly believe this too. That is what I have been doing. If what I have said and the documents I have provided are untruthful, why have I not been sued? It has been said that I stole Village Funds. Why hasn't the Attorney General, State Auditor and sheriff made my alleged theft public and prosecuted me?
Irene White