> On Friday The Star reported Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey, the prosecutor who will decide whether to bring criminal charges in the investigation, is also

> On Friday The Star reported Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey, the prosecutor who will decide whether to bring criminal charges in the investigation, is also the brother-in-law of the business owner whose expiring liquor license helped kick off the firestorm. Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278388154.html#storylink=cpy https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article27838815... Judge Viar served as the County Attorney until she was appointed into her judgeship position. (It would be interesting to know if she disclosed the two DUIs, I have my bets considering one of them is mysteriously missing court records.) > It’s unclear whether a judicial nominating commission that selected Viar for the magistrate position knew about her arrests and diversion. Members of the commission did not return calls from Eagle and Kansas City Star reporters. She would have been required to disclose both arrests in her application. >She was never sanctioned by the state’s attorney discipline board and won reelection multiple times as a Republican candidate for Morris County attorney. Looks like the Mayor just missed the first City Council meeting, in 3.5 years. Surely another coincidence. God I can't wait for more reporting to come out, it's gonna be so good. And just in case since this thread seems to be full of people needing things spoon-fed, the cops also raided the single city council person who voted against giving a liquor license, illegally, to someone convicted of DUI. Oh, and the initial meeting, at Keri Newell's restaurant, that preceded all of this, was illegally conducted: >The meeting was illegal anyway because, if you’ll refer back to the Police Department’s Facebook post, three members of the Marion County Commission were in attendance. That represents a majority of the five commissioners, which makes it an open meeting. Government meetings in Kansas are governed by what is whimsically called the Kansas Open Meetings Act. It’s a bit ironic because its mostly about when government can close a meeting. Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dion-lefler/article278296998.html#storylink=cpy https://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dion-lefler...