County Exec. Maggie Brooks and the County Subjects of yet another state probe

Just days after we learn that County Executive Maggie Brooks and the airport board decided that they were right all along and there was no need for a change to the airport board we hear this story from the Democrat and Chronicle...

"A Monroe County local development corporation and its primary contractor managing a $224 million upgrade of the county's emergency communications system have been subpoenaed by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for documentation about their formation and business practices.

Meanwhile, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli notified the county this week that its relationship with the local development corporation, Monroe Security and Safety Systems, also known as M3SLDC, would be audited.

The impending audit and subpoenas issued to M3SLDC and its contractor, Navitech Services Corp., this week suggest a broad investigation into the makeup of the organization, whose existence has been mired in controversy since its inception two years ago.

Another company, Harris Corp., whose winning bid for a subcontract to supply safety equipment to first-responders was $11 million higher than a competing firm, also was subpoenaed.

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The story goes on to quote M3SLDC's attorney Richard Bell

""The information they're looking for is fairly routine," Bell said. "It is a very broad subpoena and we'll deal with it. But again, this is almost exclusively public information.""

This is one of those common PR phrases meant to make us feel all warm and fuzzy....Oh this is all routine...I'll just ignore the man behind the curtain...