Former Town of Ulster Police Chief Matt Taggard plead guilty to a deal that will save him from going to jail. In a plea bargain Taggard plead guilty to official misconduct, that while involved in the boy scouts, Taggard failed to report sex crimes against underage victims.
First before going any further, I think we should
first congratulate our new Police Chief Tony Cruise who has officially been
named as permanent Chief of Police. It took some pride swallowing (and
thankfully that's all this time) but Quigley did the right thing and stopped the
b.s. and appointed Cruise. For those that forget, Quig's gave the personal
committee, who originally unanimously recommended Cruise to be appointed a hard
time. Councilman Eric Kitchen said that he felt he was getting lectured like a
child who stole a cookie, by Quigley at the time. (See below on how Quigley
feels about his cookies) Quigley backed off and did the right thing, good for
him.
Now getting back to Quigley's little boy scout Matt
Taggard, it will be interesting to see how Quigley is effected by this scandal.
Matt Taggard was Quigley's inside guy during his election for Supervisor in 2009
and Quigley appointed Taggard Chief of police OVER Deputy Chief Sinagra. Despite
Sinagra having superior credentials. Also despite rumors about Taggard's
personal indiscretions all over town. Quigley admits he knew about the rumors.
Bottom line Supervisor Jim Quigley exercised extremely poor judgement on this
matter. I can see some interesting mailers if Quigs decides to run for
reelection next year.
Taggard's guilty plea had nothing to do with the cadets, they have been shut down for years and it is well past the statute of limitations. If you read the articles, the District Attorney is accusing Taggard of failing to report a recent incident. But he is not saying what. And the only thing that the boy scouts had to do with the cadet group was that they provided the insurance. The cadets were run by several officers in the Town of Ulster Police Dept. Who were they and where the hell were they when all of this was going on?
ReplyDeleteMr 8:21 AM. The cadet program was run by Taggard and Police secretary Bonnie Simmons, and thats all. The cadets had nothing to do with the guilty plea, but your guy Taggard had ALOT to do with the cadets. Why don't the Ulster Report FOIL the "Taggard Tapes" and then watch all his supporters run for the hills.
ReplyDeleteI guess because the statute of limitations is past, it makes everything alright and we forget what may have been done to the underaged cadets ?? Ohh yea. The taggard people are going to say nothing was proven. Maybe it wasn't proven. but it was DONE.
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