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January 27th, 2012, 11:02 pm by

Attorney Pat Mika, who represented 19-year-old Hooters waitress Illysa Medina after she was accused of serving a visibly intoxicated patron, said the CBI investigation of Metro VNI was nothing more than a whitewashing.

Mika said the investigation, which cleared the two undercover detectives involved in the case of wrongdoing, could not be classified as complete.

“They never talked to the victim of this false accusation and that is Illysa Medina. Nor they did they ever talk to the lawyer who represented her. They got nothing but self-serving information from the police officers who were there trying to preserve their careers, their reputations and their jobs.”

According to the CBI report, the only people interviewed were: VNI detectives Jeff True and Greg Young, police Sgt. Bret Poole, city prosecutors Elliot Fladen, Anthony Moore and Jarrett Benson, sheriff Bureau Chief Joe Breister, city spokesman John Leavitt and private attorney Vince Linden, who represented Hooters in front of the city’s liquor board.

 

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Poll: Readers demand release of secret emails in Hooters case

October 11th, 2011, 9:52 am by

An overwhelming majority of respondents in an online poll think the city of Colorado Springs should release the emails between a city prosecutor and a police detective involved in the botched Hooters case.

Of the 200 votes cast so far, 91 percent say the public has a right to know what’s in the emails.

“Share the Emails! Sunlight is good for freedom,” caribou11 wrote in a comment that has generated 35 votes up and 3 votes down.

The city rejected an open-records request for emails between Assistant City Attorney Elliot Fladen and Detective Jeff True of the Metro Vice, Narcotics and Intelligence Division.

Cindy Aubrey, chief communications officer for Mayor Steve Bach, said releasing the emails would be “contrary to (the) public interest.”

“The CORA request is being denied because our attorneys believe that releasing the requested document would compromise how our attorneys prepare for prosecution, including disclosing strategies and information that would hurt future cases,” Aubrey said last month.

Most readers who have commented on gazette.com seem to disagree with the city’s reasoning.

“What is contrary to the public’s interest is the city covering up this fiasco,” wrote billthecat.

“Lies were told. This has been confirmed many times and ways. The city is hiding the proof that these cops were dirty and the dirt is rising all the way to the top,” billthecat wrote. “The more the city tries to hide things, the less credible they become.”

Billthecat’s comment has generated 34 votes up and 3 votes down.

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