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By Phil Williams
Chief Investigative Reporter
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville Electric Service purchased more than $17 million in cable under a no-bid contract, while an NES vice president used utility accounts to buy and sell items on eBay and Amazon, a new state audit concludes.(link)
My Comment: This story broke due to the hard work of citizen-activist Ken Jakes. Using freedom of information request to gain access, he spent hour upon hour poring over NES records, emails, and invoices to expose this wrong doing on the part of NES. Ken is rightly incensed that what clearly appears to be matter of criminality is being brushed aside by Tory Johnson.
Surely people at NES should know it is not appropriate to purchase personal items on Amazon with company credit cards. That is theft. It should be treated as a such. Writing specs in such a way that only one company can bid on them ought to be a crime if it is not. Charging alcoholic beverages on the company credit card is clearly wrong. Some people ought to go to jail and a lot of people ought to lose theri job and top management needs to resign.
The next time you hear of some little old lady getting her electricity cut off, think about the kickbacks that NES chiefs got in the form of room nights and expensive tickets to shows at Oprtyland Hotel and all of the free services NES gave Opryland.
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