The Kentucky Association of Counties will not get a refund for $890 in payments to two strip clubs and a Lexington escort service that were billed on two KACo credit cards. Apparently unable to read the signatures on the bills, Central Bank & Trust Co., KACo’s credit-card issuer, said it did not determine who made the charges in January and February 2008 on the account of its then-president, Spencer County Judge-Executive David Jenkins.
President Jenkins’ credit card was used to charge $445 at two Louisville strip clubs and $175 to Calypso Enterprises, which is the billing name for a Lexington escort service, Campus Cuties.
Another charge of $270 made to Calypso Enterprises on May 16, 2007, showed up on the credit card statement of KACo Executive Director Bob Arnold.
Remember boys, “stupidity is not a good legal defense.” However, “being too damn drunk to know what you are doing” might be a valid legal defense, as Melbourne Mills Jr. recently demonstrated in federal court in Covington.
I don’t know, but charging bills in a strip club and escort service on a KACo credit card is pretty damn stupid if you ask me. I vote for “hang’em high.” When we are done with these two rascals, get some beer for myhorse and a lapdance, too.
Seriously, how do you explain such behaviour except as willful and wanton? These boys need some serious time to think about their actions. Like 5 years in the pokey!
How about restitution and quit wasting money investigating this.. Will probably spend more on that then it’s worth. It’s just sex.
By: Sivad Noswad on August 12, 2009
at 9:59 pm
It may be “just sex” to you, but the taxpayers should not be footing the bill for these outings. Any public offical using a credit card from a public government agency for lap dances in a strip club should be fired and forced to pay restitution. Simple as that. Stupidity is not a defense.
By: Lawyer Sanders on August 13, 2009
at 10:55 am