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If the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet ever had an Inspector General rooting out fraud, abuse and corruption, they did a lousy job because Frankfort reporters never heard of them. So we'll assume a lawyer from Danville is the first. Here's the release from the cabinet: VETERAN ATTORNEY TO HEAD INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE FRANKFORT, Ky. (June 3, 2008) - A Danville attorney with 25 years of experience litigating civil and criminal cases has been appointed executive director of the Office of Inspector General in the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, Secretary Robert D. Vance announced. The Office of Inspector General conducts administrative and criminal investigations of violations of environmental law, state statutes and cabinet policies. "We are delighted to have someone with Ms. Benthall's wide variety of experience serving in this key position," Secretary Vance said. "I am confident that, under her leadership, the inspector general's office will fulfill its role of ensuring effective and efficient management." Benthall holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in Illinois and is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, and is a long-time member and past president of the former Kentucky Academy of Trial Lawyers, now the Kentucky Justice Association. She was the association's first woman president. 1 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Good grief, Mark, did you even try to call Mark York at the Cabinet before you wrote that? The Cabinet has had an Office of Inspector General for a long time, and they have been mentioned in press releases issued by the Cabinet regarding certain investigations. They partner with EPA and KBI and State Police a lot on the big environmental crimes (like the Bowling matter in eastern Kentucky last year), and their independent investigations led to at least the following indictments I know of: the woman at Insurance who took money from the Ky. Employees Charitable Campaign; two independent contractors who were defrauding the Petroleum Storage Tank fund; and the mine inspector in Eastern Kentucky who solicited a bribe back in 2006. They have no PR office separate from the Cabinet's and are generally good employees who just want to do their job rather than work on getting PR.