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Speaker 3: So the news breaking not long ago that the City

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Speaker 3: of Cincinnati is paying a local law firm, Frost Brown

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Speaker 3: Todd forty k to investigate police Terry Thigi's performance after

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Speaker 3: they fired her. Normally, you investigate the performance. Go okay,

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Speaker 3: they got to go. This is completely backwards, and they

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Speaker 3: expect the law firm to be finished by the end

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Speaker 3: of the year. So it's going to cost us forty

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Speaker 3: grand and the city is still shelling out the full

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Speaker 3: salary and benefits to Terry Thiji of in excess of

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Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars. Because of this nonsense, she hired

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Speaker 3: her own employment lawyer, Stephen m and he has no

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Speaker 3: intention of allowing her to resign because she said there's

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Speaker 3: nothing negative thirty five years on the job to the

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Speaker 3: date when she was moved. Thirty five years, nothing significant,

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Speaker 3: nothing minor. In her jacket, pretty exemplary thirty five year

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Speaker 3: law career that she's had, so why now. And also

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Speaker 3: there's some developing news overnight regarding the scope of the

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Speaker 3: investigation what the law firm is going to look for.

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Speaker 2: Specifically.

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Speaker 3: Joining the show is attorney Jason Philibaum, who's been around

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Speaker 3: the block a few times. Jason, welcome, how are you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning? Thank you doing well?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this whole thing right away, it just just screams

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Speaker 3: like wrongful dismissal in a sense, because before we get

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Speaker 3: this and go, Okay, I've been on the job for

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Speaker 3: thirty five years, and on my thirty fifth anniversary, I

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Speaker 3: get noticed that I'm now on paid administratively, if I'm

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Speaker 3: in Denver, Colorado, I get summoned back from this conference

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Speaker 3: to Cincinnati because I'm probably gonna get fired. And she

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Speaker 3: wasn't technically fired. She's on paid leave, and it wasn't

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Speaker 3: because of something happened. I mean the Fountain Square issue.

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Speaker 3: It happened days a couple of days after she left

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Speaker 3: then furthermore, they come in and go, Okay, we're going

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Speaker 3: to put you on leave. We're going to name an

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Speaker 3: interim chief. By the way, not a temporary position, but

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Speaker 3: interim generally means between the past into the future. If

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Speaker 3: it was someone let's say that God forbid she were sick,

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Speaker 3: there would be someone temporarily there, right, So that would

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Speaker 3: be someone who is not an interim chief. There'd be

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Speaker 3: they even chose the words incorrectly here. If you're not fired,

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Speaker 3: she's not fired, then why I have an interim chief?

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Speaker 3: Does that not help the legal case against the city

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Speaker 1: I think this looks like a witch hut. It reminds

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Speaker 1: And you know what I think you have here is

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Speaker 1: I mean that's clear. And instead of just terminating her

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not easy to dismissible gig.

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Speaker 3: Well, we investigated and we found this in your jacket,

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Speaker 3: I don't think you have to be a political analysis

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Speaker 3: I mean I look at him and go, they're doing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that's what a lot of people

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Speaker 1: other issues. Now that might be a legitimate thing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: So I would think that if her subordinates were telling

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Speaker 3: He is attorney Jason Phillibaum, the very latest involving Terry

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Speaker 3: Terry Thigi. Now we're hiring a law from a local

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Speaker 3: going to do some deep diving and try and find

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Speaker 3: out the reasons why they fired her before. Yeah, as

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Speaker 3: I guess the Inquirer came out with this this morning.

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Speaker 3: The scope of the investigation This is what the lawyers,

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Speaker 3: the team for the city outside council is going to investigate.

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Speaker 3: And now are there are four prongs to this thing.

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Speaker 3: Is she an effective leader and manager of the department,

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Speaker 3: including personnel and resources? Is she a leader within the

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Speaker 3: context of city government, meaning does she further the broader

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Speaker 3: infraction or positive evolution while serving as police chief? And

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Speaker 3: did she disregard best practices in the running a CPD

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Speaker 3: to the detriment of detriment of public safety and crime prevention. Well,

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Speaker 3: let's start with the first one. Is she an effective

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Speaker 3: That seems like an open ended question, like if there

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Speaker 3: so they rallied them. So to look at this and say,

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Speaker 1: Right? Exactly? And I call that fuzzy math. You know,

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Speaker 1: just like if you want to find that she's a

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Speaker 1: she's going to then get into court and say, look,

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Speaker 1: other people have done, you know, other people forgot to

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Speaker 1: they were allowed to stay. But I'm getting fired things

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Speaker 1: more serious. You know, there's a problem in Cincinnati with crime.

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Speaker 1: Whose fault is it? Is it the mayor's is it

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Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to see if there's something that she

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Speaker 3: Jason Philibel, Attorney at law, relative to the four pillars

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Speaker 3: she's committed any infraction policy violation while serving as a

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Speaker 2: This is completely the opposite.

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Speaker 1: Of that right. And that's why I think a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah, our tires at nineteen ninety eight, we're touching a

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Speaker 3: Those don't rise to levels the reason you get fired

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Speaker 1: Right exactly exactly, and that's what they're that's what they're

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Speaker 3: Well it seems like, you know, they're turning under a stone,

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Speaker 3: Number four is did she regard best practices in the

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Speaker 3: Because that's the sticky part is when she interviewed for

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Speaker 3: That's on the mayor. So they're doing this investigation. I

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Speaker 1: Long, Yeah, I agree, And if you look at I

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Speaker 3: I could see when she's falsifying reports and people aren't

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Speaker 1: Exactly. As I said at the beginning of this talk,

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Speaker 3: Of course, that's what this is about, buying some time

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Speaker 3: I would also add this finally, Jason Philibauma attorney at law,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, her attorney's firm is well known for suing

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Speaker 3: If the finny law firm or like the Bengals defense,

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Speaker 3: thanks for jumping on this morning.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you Over at.

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