The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has suspended and reassigned a supervisor on Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi's security detail who incorrectly reported that a fellow officer—and not Brizzi—was driving a golf cart that flipped at a 2008 political fundraiser.
An IMPD internal affairs investigation found that Brizzi was driving the cart that flipped on Oct. 10, 2008, injuring Detective Steven Buchanan, a member of Brizzi's security detail.
Sgt. Michael Thayer, the security detail supervisor who attended the golf outing while off-duty, filed reports showing Buchanan as the driver. IMPD said in a statement Tuesday that Thayer failed to correct the report a week later after he learned that Brizzi was driving the cart.
Thayer will be suspended for one day without pay and reassigned to an IMPD crime-reduction initiative. Meanwhile, IMPD officers assigned to Brizzi's security detail will no longer conduct grand jury or other investigations.
The inquiry into the golf cart incident, first reported on IBJ.com on Monday, began after the department received tips suggesting reports about the incident contained incorrect information.
Buchanan broke his wrist and bruised his knee after a golf cart carrying him and Brizzi flipped at the Ironwood Golf Club.
Police reports filed at the time says Buchanan was behind the wheel about 1 p.m. when "an unidentified white vehicle" backed out of a parking spot, causing him to swerve and flip the cart. The incident reports do not mention Brizzi.
The Republican prosecutor that day was hosting his fifth-annual "Putt with the Prosecutor" golf outing, which started at 8:30 a.m. and featured "St. Elmo shrimp cocktail on course" and a "Ruth's Chris Beverage Station."
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Several of us know about the fake WME certification John engineered.
Maybe we should all get together go to the FBI, State and IRS. Then we all go over to Capitol street and watch them all be arrested.....
Okay, John. What the heck was Elkhart then?
PS, Dontcha love the minority classification. He just thought of everything.
http://www.in.gov/idoa/proc/recommendations/files/proposal-rfp-9-45.pdf
Maybe John B or Wendy M will be the broker, oops forgot they will be in jailâ?¦.. Maybe I will see if Spectrum Management and Development, LLC can help with that. Or will they be in jail also for fraud and racketeering?
Guilty till proven innocent with these foolsâ?¦..
All involved get familiar with the color orange and try to learn the prison lingo. These tips will come in handy for your long stay in prison.
Maybe John B or Wendy M will be the broker, oops forgot they will be in jailâ?¦.. Maybe I will see if Spectrum Management and Development, LLC can help with that. Or will they be in jail also for fraud and racketeering?
Guilty till proven innocent with these foolsâ?¦..
All involved get familiar with the color orange and try to learn the prison lingo. These tips will come in handy for your long stay in prison.
Those investigators have copies of the harddrives showing each email ever sent. This document suggests there wasn't one from Brizzi showing a resignation. I wonder if Brizzi will get charged with racqueeting by Ohio since no one in Indiana is ever going to do anything to him:
http://www.kccllc.net/documents/1050494/1050494100513000000000002.pdf
If you do the math you can clearly see the FBI raid was not 19 months ago and actually less than seven months ago. But since you can't do math I can understand why you would believe the magic math wand Tim wants you to believe he was able to wave around and created hundreds of millions of dollars from trailer factories "running 24 hours a day," and not from the--as Trustee Brian Bash calls it--the looting of the life savings of Fair Finance's elderly investors.
I find it interesting that no one from Baker Daniels is rushing to Tim or Carl's defense. Baker Daniels is the home of the trustee-appointed local attorney Jay Jaffe. I have a hunch he knows exactly what Durham and Brizzi are, and you know how hard it is to keep a secret at a law firm, especially when their files probably aren't under lock and key.
As for no criminal charges I applaud not only the FBI but also the Ohio Attorney General for diligently dotting every "i" and crossing every "t" to ensure criminal charges are able to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Durham and Brizzi are lawyers. And maybe nothing will happen to Brizzi because of the idiocy of the way some of the local laws are written. Durham will not get out of criminal charges. Not only did he loot over $200M, it appears he committed state sales tax fraud on all those cars, bank fraud to the various banks like Shelby County Bank and Webster Bank and all the other banks he lied to about his real sources of money and who else had liens where.
And, don't forget the IRS. EVEN IF these boys can get out of criminal charges don't forget the IRS. It looks to me like Brizzi may not have reported his true income to the IRS. I sure didn't see his true income listed in his divorce filings; go pull the Boone County divorce file of Brizzi and look for yourself. He either lied in Boone County or he lied to the IRS or he lied to both.
(Note: things did not work out so well for the last guy with the name you are using, may want to consider changing it)
Thanks for the reply. I am behind you watching...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/brizzimustgo/
You know, Seth--the guy that took Don's place. Call him yourself, want his direct #? It starts with 317-223-0 (last three numbers deleted for his privacy, since we wouldn't want him bombarded will calls about why Don did nothing last year and Seth will do nothing this year.)
YMMV, but this is what i know.
Brizzi-strip his JD from him and bar him from practicing law. He will not get far in this town in business.
Bales-the State Licencing agency should revoke his broker's license and look into how he is involved in Spectrum Management.
Same with Page and whomever else is a taint to their professions. Be ready for complaints because there a plenty of people
out there who these crooks have lied and stolen from.
Leaving office with a full pension, by the way.
Once again, while the officer's conduct is wrong why is nothing being done to Brizzi who knowingly allowed, winked and high fived this false police report to be filed? If I or my wife or our neighbor did something like this I would be charged with no less than a Class B misdemeanor but I would be charged, and if there was an injury I might be charged with a felony.
I googled the statute and see below. Carl Brizzi was the driver of a moving vehicle that was in an accident that caused his deputy/bodyguard to break his hand/wrist, which has probably caused some permanent dismobility for that deputy. Carl Brizzi knowingly allowed a false report to be filed to avoid his role in this accident and my guess is because he was drunk. Carl Brizzi, by his own words when Tim Durham was first raided by the FBI, admitted he (Carl) should be held to a higher standard because he is the prosecutor. Yet none of this happens.
It is obvious to me, just a regular Joe, that Carl Brizzi is a criminal. Irresponsible. And has a big mouth, flew out to LA it looks like to confer with his friend TD who looks like he was also tipped off about the impending raid last fall. Looks to me like Brizzi traded on inside information on a large Indianapolis's purchase of an obscure Dallas company and a Vegas alleged mob boiler room stock. Looks to me like Brizzi had inside information about what was about to happen in Elkhart because who in their right mind would go locate a rodent invested derelect building in Elkhart for a commercial government office lease?
Yet nothing happens. We Hoosiers can be so proud of our Indianapolis Prosecutor. After all, we can't get him out of office and he is not quitting.
IC 9-26-1-1
Duties of driver of vehicle involved in accident resulting in injury or death
Sec. 1. The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident that results in the injury or death of a person shall do the following:
(1) Immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close to the accident as possible in a manner that does not obstruct traffic more than is necessary.
(2) Immediately return to and remain at the scene of the accident until the driver does the following:
(A) Gives the driver's name and address and the registration number of the vehicle the driver was driving.
(B) Upon request, exhibits the driver's license of the driver to the following:
(i) The person struck.
(ii) The driver or occupant of or person attending each vehicle involved in the accident.
(C) Determines the need for and renders reasonable assistance to each person injured in the accident, including the removal or the making of arrangements for the removal of each injured person to a physician or hospital for medical treatment.
(3) Immediately give notice of the accident by the quickest means of communication to one (1) of the following:
(A) The local police department if the accident occurs within a municipality.
(B) The office of the county sheriff or the nearest state police post if the accident occurs outside a municipality.
(4) Within ten (10) days after the accident, forward a written report of the accident to the:
(A) state police department, if the accident occurs before January 1, 2006; or
(B) bureau, if the accident occurs after December 31, 2005. As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.210-2005, SEC.50.
Sign me up for the Capital Grille or Shulas..
Suspend him indefinitely and then the truth will come out - FALSE POLICE REPORT FILING.
IMPD BRASS and DR. Straub are covering this up. What a bunch of poor leadership being shown at IMPD.
I cannot beleive we get this PH'd (piled higher and deeper) and this one day suspension? These were Grand Jury Investigators... So being the public my perception is IMPD condones the filing of false police reports by its officers.
So the taxpayers pay for this Officers 2 weeks off with pay... Why does Brizzi's campaign reimburse the taxpayers. Incomprehensible, Grand Jury Investigators making "false reports" right alongside the Chief Prosecutor.
I feel sorry for anyone that has been dispensed any justice under Brizzi's tenure. It is all tainted...