The Port had been preparing a news release about hiring former U.S. attorney Mike Mckay when they decided to run it by him first - here is his response.
"I am uncomfortable calling it a "fraud" investigation because it will only make it harder to get people to cooperate. On the other hand, I know you want to inform the public why you are doing this. Do you think, for PR purposes, you can get away with just calling it a "follow-up internal investigation" in the press releases? You could always point out orally that we will be able to look at things the State Auditor could not -- including fraud."
Seems like a good idea to me, but wouldn't the Port Pr team have picked it up? What are paying them for anyway?
But there is more here. It seems to indicate that fraud did exist at least in the mind of the Bill Bryant who was leading the press release at the time. "I know you want to inform the public why you are doing this" He was doing it because he thinks there is fraud.
Also, why would it be harder to get people to cooperate if you call what they did fraud?
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