Escambia County has filed suit against Jonathan Owens, aide to former County Commissioner Doug Underhill, Alexander Arduini and Gannett, owner of the Pensacola News Journal, seeking recovery of electronic data files and associated physical storage devices containing approximately 60,000 lines of text messages from the personal cell phone of County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh.
Why this matters: The records were stolen off the county’s server and given to Owens. Read more.
Dig Deeper: Supporting the lawsuit are a transcript of Owens’ interview with Andrew McKay, Facebook posts and a PNJ article. Read Escambia vs Owens Arduini Gannett
The County needs to do this and a whole lot more to finally bring the Underhill-Rogers cohort into accountability for their years of destructive and dangerous damage wrought on this community.
During Arduini’s deposition, hopefully they will ask him how he actually got those documents with Commissioner Barry’s sensitive information, including social security. There could very well be some interesting through-lines.
This past week JAR hit an all-time low when she orchestrated an “anonymous” garbage misinformation string on Commissioner May and got the old band back together to perform their typical pre-orchestrated version of The Aristocrats. My favorite part was when she or whoever else was working the “Anonymous Participant” account lost track of which account they were using and tagged “Anonymous Participant” with that same account–a little slow on the uptake as usual, Jacqueline finally went in and “fixed” it by tagged AP and directing them to check PM. It blows my mind she really seems to not get that nobody is fooled. We’ve all been onto her tactics for years.
She, Owens, Arduini, and Doug all got a super special unexpected bonus, though–a real life person coming on to make multiple, explicit threats of violence directly on Commissioner May and the other commissioners, stating twice that “violence is the only answer” and that the commissioners wouldn’t understand until they were made to feel “pain.” Jacqueline–who had already bragged about her administrative capacity and prowess in setting up the anonymous dump earlier in the string–answered every single call to violence in her typical “who me? not me” fashion, apparently believing that absolved her of leaving the calls for violence stand. And so they did, for two days, until the string disappeared in the very moment I was reading it over with a friend to make sure we had it all documented properly.
I hope the County Attorney’s office and the BCC is ready to follow this thing where ever it leads and not stop until the entire network of people who were and/or still are in possession of those stolen documents without rendering them to the proper authorities is exposed. And that includes Pam Childers, who is commonly acknowledged to have bragged to various corners about having a copy of them, necessitating Commissioner Kohler’s fake fit of “government transparency” in his attempt to shield her during the BCC vote.
Who knows, maybe Pam can get Jonathan on her payroll now if she hasn’t already. Not gonna lie, it is satisfying to see two people who helped disinformation Edler’s suit against me now on the defending end of civil action themselves that, unlike the results of Edler’s frivolous, Doug-inspired action on me, will–if the attorneys have a stomach for accountability and protecting the taxpayer–not just demonstrate civil culpability but will also underline their criminal behavior. No doubt whatever agencies have been investigating the actual crimes will be watching this action with interest.
Jonathan, how many times were you warned over the years, from the very beginning. I warned you myself; you messed with the voicemail recording and posted it on ECW (which I figured you might do when I left it.) Countless opportunities to uncouple yourself from Doug’s program, and at every turn you doubled down instead. The sad thing is, for *years* those of us fighting your corrupt D2 office have known that, whenever it finally did hit the fan, Doug would have you stuck holding the bag.
(ps. the “Anonymous Participant” account laying out the BS disinformation on debris is not to be confused with some of the anonymous posters from EMS who clearly seem to be speaking the real deal. It breaks my heart that we got that viper’s den cleaned out once, only to let the previous administration restock the pool with another thug in command with a rat dumper as his heavy. I wish the good employees still laboring under that horrendous toxic workplace–here comes the new boss; same as the old boss–had a better venue to air their justifiable grievances than a disinformation site that has no credibility whatever with ethical and intelligent people.)