Enquirer Editorial on Mallory' s "ethical lapse"

Dale Mallory should mend ethical lapse

"Dale Mallory appears to have been playing all three sides of a relationship between the Cincinnati Empowerment Corp., West End Community Council and Citylink - a dance that while apparently legal does not represent the kind of open and transparent conduct we have a right to expect from our civic leaders.

He had a contract with the empowerment corporation, a federally funded anti-poverty agency, which he used to lobby for Citylink, a proposed community social service center, which was opposed by a majority on the West End Community Council, of which he happened to be president. As president of the community council, Mallory argued for Citylink, but his support for the 10,000 square-foot project over the council's opposition led to his impeachment as president in February.

Lawyers for the empowerment corporation have said the bills for about eight hours of work submitted by Mallory "raise troubling questions" about how the agency hires consultants and potential conflicts of interest. The time in question apparently was for work he did with the community council while he was its president. As president of the community council, he also appointed members of the empowerment corporation board - the board that then hired him as a consultant."

Check it out. They are way off on the square footage of the CityLink homeless mall. Instead of 10,000 square feet, think of a WalMart sized facility on a five acre site, serving drug addicts, mental cases, and prison pre-release cases from the justice system.

The one thing I don't understand is that nobody asks Dale about the checks he was cutting after he was impeached. Nobody is asking Dale for the historical records, membership lists, minutes, and bank records of the West End Community Council.

Dale Mallory refuses to give up this information. He doesn't want anyone to audit the WECC bank records of his past few years in office. That is the only explanation that I can find.

The tone of the article is that if Dale gives back a few hundred dollars everything will be ok. I think that people are upset about more than just a few hundred dollars. To me it was the underhanded and deceptive way he went about getting that money, while publicly denying everything.