Originally Posted by
bamike
This guy will never get convicted of anything and I don’t think they can fire him without paying him off. There are so many holes in this story any lawyer can tear it to shreds. It’s also why she went public, to get it into the court of public opinion because the evidence is too flimsy for a successful outcome in court.
I’m not saying he’s innocent, it’s irrelevant. The government cannot meet their burden of proof, and the plaintiff probably won’t even meet preponderance of the evidence in the civil claim.
Indeed. He may never get convicted, but they don't have to fire him - merely drag this out. Did you miss the numbers? Twenty-four years in the USAF - we can assume four years of that was Zoom school and he entered at 18, so that gets him up to age twenty-two when he was commissioned, and forty-two when he pulled the handles and retired. He has since worked twenty-two years for Alaska making him sixty-four.
AAG doesn't HAVE to fire him, but neither do they have to fly him, they can just drag this out another year and the problem evaporates, and no matter if he is on leave with or without pay, they are going to figure it's cheaper than taking the heat for putting him back in the cockpit.
As for it being too flimsy to win in court, this will be a KING COUNTY superior court. I wouldn't bet on anything in that venue.