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Rack & Roll Scandal Category Archives
Rack & Roll Gets Media Attention
22 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 5 Comments
Today’s Manassas Journal-Messenger article on the Rack & Roll scandal is the opening article of a three part series, and introduces some issues that I expect will be explored at greater depth over the next few days. This installment focuses on the denial of a Conditional Use Permit for Rack & Roll in 2006 […]
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MJM Starts Coverage of Rack & Roll Scandal
22 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 4 Comments
The Manassas Journal-Messenger has started it’s long-awaited multi-part article on the Rack & Roll scandal with a somewhat curious opening piece in today’s edition. There are a few references in the article that probably need some explanation, which I hope to provide tomorrow morning. Stay tuned…
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Rack & Roll Carnival
20 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 1 Comment
The Rack & Roll scandal has generated a burst of interest these days, and I’d like to give a shout out to all the other websites that have picked up the story and are weighing in, as well as give folks an opportunity to see what others, both local and nationwide, are saying on this. […]
Cleanup In Aisle Four
20 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal, Manassas City | 3 Comments
The evening that the story broke about the “VCDL 7″, as I’m calling them, I was talking to David Ruttenberg and the conversation drifted to a discussion about that story. After I related the story, and entirely out of the blue, he asked me if an “Officer Hittle” was involved. We looked at […]
Welcome Instapundit Readers
19 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal, Blogs | Comments Off
For those of you coming to this site from instapundit, you’ll probably want to see this post. The rest of the story is here.
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Once More Into The Breach - UPDATED
18 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal, Blogs | 45 Comments
I received a letter from the attorney representing the City of Manassas Park, Police Chief John Evans, and several officers of the Manassas Park Police Department. It’s essentially a ‘cease and desist’ letter that asks me to put them in touch with my attorney, and it claims a lot of my posts on the […]
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When Perjury Subverts Governing
13 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 6 Comments
Few things are more crucial to the effective process of governing than the requirement that governing officials are truthful about what they’re doing. That truthfulness establishes a critical trust between the government and the goverened, and ensures citizens the opportunity to perform some oversight lest that government try to become the master of, instead of […]
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A Tale Of Two Establishments
7 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 8 Comments
The Manassas Park Shopping Center at one time had two establishments that served alcohol and allowed patrons to play pool. One is obviously the Rack & Roll Billiards Club. The other was a place called “The Golden Phoenix”. One of these establishments was relentlessly harassed by officials of the City of Manassas […]
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More On Manassas Park’s Setup
4 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | Comments Off
I’m not the only blogger interested in the Rack & Roll scandal in Manassas Park. Radley Balko, who in his day job works for the Cato Institute, has been following this story and digging into the evidence on his own. In his latest post on the subject he adds his own research and […]
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The Anatomy Of A Setup
2 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 10 Comments
How would you react if you learned that your local police department had recruited one of your employees to perform their duties in a manner contrary to your direction so that you could be implicated in something illegal? Would outraged begin to describe it? NovaTownHall made mention recently of a character […]
Great Commentary on the Rack & Roll Scandal
1 February 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 1 Comment
Radley Balko, courtesy of “The Agitator“, provides a great summary of the settlement offer that the city has extended to Dave Ruttenberg that deserves reposting here:
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Manassas Park’s “Generous Offer”
29 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 17 Comments
The City of Manassas Park has been trying to negotiate a settlement with David Ruttenberg, as any municipality would be wise to do when faced with litigation. Negotiations don’t necessarily mean that one side or the other believes it’s position is weak, but sometimes a negotiated settlement has economic or other advantages that are […]
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Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics
29 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 33 Comments
[image: Manassas Park Shopping Center furniture store, proposed gambling site] The 2004 referendum in Manassas Park on an Off-Track Betting Facility was presented to the voters as an opportunity to gain some additional tax revenue with the only change to the center of the city’s business district being a change of occupants at one […]
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FBI Investigation Launched In Manassas Park
27 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 8 Comments
FBI Agents have recently begun interviewing people in Manassas Park and asking those whom they’ve contacted questions about corruption surrounding the Dave Ruttenberg scandal. I talked to one of those individuals today, who had a lengthly discussion with two agents, and have heard from another that they’ve been contacted as well. Dave […]
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To Whet Your Appetite
26 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 3 Comments
While we wait for the Manassas Journal-Messenger to get off it’s butt and finally print the story on the Dave Ruttenberg scandal, here are some interesting tidbits that I’ve come across as I continue to dig into the story that readers might enjoy. I’ve been expecting the story to run for about a week […]
Manassas Park: Fire For Effect
23 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 6 Comments
I’m hearing that later on this week the Manassas Journal-Messenger is going to begin running a multi-part story on the Dave Ruttenberg Scandal by Alex Granados. Alex has spent weeks working on this story, and from who he’s talked to and the information he’s gotten, this should be a stunning expose of corruption in […]
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Let’s Go To The Video Tape (#4)
18 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | Comments Off
90 Police Officer SWAT Raid: $274,500.
Two paid police informants arrested and released without charge: $500.
Two bottles of beer samples liberated in the raid: $0.
Not having to admit the raid was unlawful: Priceless.
See the raid video here, and here is a great post on it.
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Media To Weigh In On Dave Ruttenberg Scandal
15 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 4 Comments
I’m hearing that the Manassas Journal-Messenger will be the first mainstream media outlet out of the gate with a story on the Dave Ruttenberg scandal in Manassas Park. The story is expected to run sometime mid-week, possibly as a multi-part series.
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MPPD Outrage
12 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 9 Comments
Dave Ruttenberg, like many a good citizen, is willing to provide information to law enforcement when they encounter information regarding a possible crime. That’s a critical part of the partnership between citizens and law enforcement, as police officers don’t hear and see everything that happens. They rely on citizens reporting information to help […]
Another Rack & Roll Saga Story
10 January 2007 | Rack & Roll Scandal | 29 Comments
The first referendum on off-track betting in Manassas Park was in 1996. At the time, Colonial Downs thought they might want to locate the facility in the area where Town Center is now planned which prompted the realignment of the intersection of Route 28 and Manassas Drive. One local businessman, Dave Ruttenberg, saw […]
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