Ellis McCoy quits
The City of Portland's parking meter manager -- at the center of an FBI investigation into accusations of corruption -- announced his "retirement" yesterday. So ends his long career at City Hall, and his unpaid administrative leave that began on August 10 when federal agents raided his home and office.
Of course, the news is announced on a Friday afternoon of a three-day holiday weekend. Oh Ellis, oh Tom, oh Sam, how clever. They're going to love all of you wherever you wind up next.
The mayor is making funny noises about how wonderful the corruption probe is, but the polygraph needle just flew off the graph paper:
"We enthusiastically support the work of the U.S. Attorney and Federal Bureau of Investigation in their own ongoing investigation," Adams said Friday.
It's that "enthusiastically" that tips you off that the mayor's not coming clean with you. As we have all learned, when he's telling a fib, he can't be satisfied with a flat version. He always feels that uncontrollable urge to go over the top and turn it into a real whopper. Just ask Bob Ball.
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Comments (13)
I thought he was on paid leave.
Posted by reader | September 3, 2011 9:09 AM
You're correct, reader. It's the way things are done in government. You're either assigned a desk job in a different subsection of the Bureau, or you're placed on paid administrative leave.
Posted by Max | September 3, 2011 10:07 AM
"It's that "enthusiastically" that tips you off that the mayor's not coming clean with you."
Save me a lot of time, give me the tip that tells me he is being honest. Besides aren't they enthusiatically responding to your records request?
I'm sure Ellis has negotiated a prtty good separation package in exchange for not suing CoP.
Posted by Steve | September 3, 2011 10:26 AM
Oh Sam, how is that city attorney investigation coming along. Sure lot of delving. Why didn't you order it a few years back? I hope someone orders a public records request of how, when, what's happening on Sam's timely request. Or did it ever happen? Media never reported it.
Posted by lw | September 3, 2011 10:37 AM
Has anybody found a link to Gladys?
Posted by Abe | September 3, 2011 12:14 PM
Reader, it was paid, all right. That was just a slip of the keys on my part.
Posted by Jack Bog | September 3, 2011 1:10 PM
It's all speculation, of course, but if I had to guess, I'd say that if Ellis McCoy goes down, he's going to take some other people with him. The other thing I'm thinking is that Portland City Hall seems ripe for obstruction of justice charges. They lie so much, they have probably lost track of where that particular line is.
Posted by Jack Bog | September 3, 2011 1:20 PM
Save me a lot of time, give me the tip that tells me he is being honest.
Snort! This is Sam!
Posted by Max | September 3, 2011 1:36 PM
I read that Ellis's wife has now filed for divorce.
He is all alone in that condo now!
Posted by portland native | September 3, 2011 2:32 PM
I hope McCoy sings like a chickadee to the Feds and kiddie hall and the developer weasels come tumbling down.
Posted by LucsAdvo | September 3, 2011 4:22 PM
McCoy is caught cold. He is going down. The Fed will leave this Democrat fief that is Portland free to pursue its present course.
Posted by LL | September 3, 2011 9:05 PM
LL - If he sings, the Feds would have to pursue the rest of the cabal.
Posted by LucsAdvo | September 4, 2011 5:35 AM
Abe, I had the same question. Here is a copy of a resolution honoring Gladys and Bill McCoy from the state legislature, http://www.leg.state.or.us/97reg/measures/hjm1.dir/hjm0007.en.html, listing their seven children. Ellis is not one of them.
Posted by Gordon | September 5, 2011 12:07 AM