CORRUPTION SUCKS BLOG

Wednesday, December 11, 2018 LAST TERM MAYOR STODOLA CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE - BOARD WILL VOTE TONIGHT TO BUMP UP HIS RETIREMENT BENEFITS CORRUPTION SUCKS According the the city HR director, last term mayor Stodola is not entitled to the benefits he seeks.  And she provides the smoking gun proving he lied about not asking for this. We posted back on November 9th that last term mayor Mark Stodola was seeking a bump in salary during his last weeks in office to reap higher retirement benefits. You can read that post by clicking  here . Thanks to the  Arkansas Times  and Max Brantley's  Arkansas blog,  we learned late yesterday that a proposed ordinance is to be voted on at tonight's reconvened board meeting that would do just what we said and more.   In addition to the salary bump during Stodola's last weeks in office, if he kicks the bucket before his ailing wife, she will get widows benefits. We have sent a request for records abo

DIRTY LITTLE ROCK DEA AGENT BUSTED FOR ACCEPTING BRIBES DIRTY DEA AGENT NATHAN KOEN Drug Enforcement Agent Nathan Koen was arrested on December 4, 2018 and charged with federal bribery and drug conspiracy charges following allegations that he accepted payment from a drug dealer in exchange for information. U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland said Nathan Koen was arrested Tuesday on a federal complaint that alleged he accepted bribes and helped a drug dealer’s criminal activities for two years. Koen was detained following an appearance before a U.S. magistrate judge. Apparently he did not stow away any of that bribery cash for a rainy day or an emergency like obtaining an attorney if he got caught. Koen had worked at the DEA’s Little Rock office since September 2016.  If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison for the bribery count and up to life in prison for the conspiracy count. Oddly, there is no mention of this major arrest on the website of the U.S.