Our last blog mentioned how Phoenix police lieutenant Lauri Burgett lied about the kidnapping stats, but used portions of the $1.7M in grant-federal stimulus dollars to buy herself a car, fund a nice trip to England and give herself a Year-Over-Year raise of 37%. This allowed her to earn $240,000 in 2010.
Did you know Lauri Burgett also was involved with video company named MONEY DROP PRODUCTIONS LLC with retired cop Sgt.Andy Hill and a videographer? It appears she needed a lot of money and her base pay and overtime weren’t enough! She needed to triple dip with a company that came to Phoenix PD crime scenes to tape of all things – her kidnappings!
Here is the link to the Arizona Corporate Commission showing Lauri Burgett, Andy Hill and a videographer named Donald Sikorski owning a business where videos of illegal aliens and kidnappings were being turned into a TV show.
It appears when the shit was hitting the fan, these creeps tried to dissolve the company, in December 2010. They opened and closed it fairly quickly (May 24, 2010-December 23, 2010).
This dissolution was two weeks after the Phoenix PD learned about an investigation by OIG and OIG had already met with Phil Roberts…and others!
Pretty diabolical…huh?
Think about it for a second.
Any second job or business a cop is involved with, must be approved by the City Manager and can’t be a conflict of interest. So by way of example for layman out there, a cop can’t write tickets and then own a towing company, or work vice and own a strip club or a liquor store, or be a bail bondsman…or be involved with a kidnapping video company and working the kidnapping unit; then obtain federal grant dollars to fund her kidnapping unit by lying about how many kidnappings occurred in the city of Phoenix in 2008!
But in the regime of Jack Harris conflicts did happen and this is one of them. If you remember Ronnie Snodgrass (
who by the way considers himself out of the closest and admitting he's interested in men. Being gay is en vogue and we appreciate the honesty by Ronnie Bear if it is true, but the part that bothers us is Ronnie is the size of a house with a gland issue that leaves him a wet, sweaty mess. We are trying to kill the visual of man sex with Ronnie and can’t stop vomiting in our mouth…), owned a training company with Dan Olsen called
Preferred Training Solutions where he notoriously trained cops on company time, and received a handsome stipend. Ronnie was allowed to do this because he for a short time ran the retirement system and cooked Jack Harris’ double dipping retirement deal.
So Lauri Burgett is a Phoenix cop (the first dip), who lied to obtain a federal grant and federal stimulus dollars. She paid herself handsomely (pun intended based on the photos of her…) in the form of overtime wages (her double dip). Then Lauri Burgett was involved in this video company where this video crew along with retired cop Andy Hill would show up at crime scenes to video kidnappings (triple dip) for a yet to be released kidnapping TV show.
Lauri did fill out the proper paperwork, but left it purposefully vague saying she was merely involved in an extracurricular video company. There was no mention of kidnappings or Andy Hill. Of course she didn’t want anyone to know her video company with Andy Hill was taping her kidnappings. Makes sense why she was vehemently defending the kidnapping stats and doing everything possible to throw Phil Roberts under the bus; even with the far-fetched claim that they were Phil’s bad kidnapping numbers. Makes even more sense why she traveled to England on the taxpayer’s dime even after admitting and knowing the kidnapping stats were a fraud. This travel only padded her
curriculum vitae as a resident expert in the field for future videos and future enrichment.
What’s even more unconscionable is Lauri’s husband is Phoenix police Lieutenant Jim Burgett and being that Phoenix is a community property state, was party to her fraud and cover-up. As a cop he has a duty to report malfeasance and corruption, but with his wife earning $240K, plus the enticement of proceeds from this video company; it made Jim awfully quite! You would be a fool to believe that Phoenix police lieutenant Jim Burgett had no clue what his wife was doing and her involvement in a kidnapping video company about her own kidnappings.
Source have told us retired Phoenix police officer Andy Hill would mysterious appear at random kidnappings, telling the cops on the scene that he was authorized to be there per Mayor Phil Gordon, Jack Harris and Lauri Burgett. Lauri Burgett openly and boldly told everyone that she had absolute immunity in the Phoenix PD. She claimed she was friends with Mayor Phil Gordon and even went so far as to show people his cell phone number programmed into her phone.
This video company MONEY DROP PRODUCTIONS LLC was in the process/is in the process of making a documentary type TV show (think of a
COPS type TV drama, with Phoenix PD kidnapping slant to it) to sell the TV networks only to reap more financial gain.
The teaser for this documentary is called
Ransom City and is located on Sikorski’s private website here
http://www.djsikorski.com/
Here it is on YouTube too.
And as you can see, Lauri Burgett is featured prominently in this video teaser.
It would be interesting to know if Andy Hill really had this authorization by pill popping mayor Phil OxyGordon and former chief Jack Ass Harris. Not to give any credo to OxyGordon or the Jack Ass, but we are pretty certain at best they knew a video company was being worked, but it is doubtful they shared in any financial gain, except obtaining the federal stimulus dollars for the city of Phoenix. Their gain was politically motivated. Lauri’s gain was purely financial and all about greed. Lauri undoubtedly lied and told people that videotaping was authorized from the top and assumed she had absolute immunity because she herself signed off on, and provided the fraudulent data on the stats that OxyGordon and Jack Ass presented to Congress. What better insurance policy could she have?
It should create great pause with each of you that this happened, not withstanding the Office of Inspector General and the Department of Justice investigations - the antics occurring in Phoenix, Arizona. The rot and corruption is systemic. How does one begin to fix this except for an outside intervention and a house cleaning of everyone?
We now have a greater understanding and reasoning why covering up the fraudulent kidnapping stats was so acute and why this lying cunt Phoenix police Lieutenant Laurel Burgett tried to lay blame on Phil Roberts and retaliated against him. Her and her husband’s livelihood was at risk and Phil Roberts was the bump in the road ruining Jim and Lauri Burgett’s big payola! We will venture to guess an audit of the Burgett’s tax return for 2008, 2009, or 2010 has tons on police related write-offs, for MONEY DROP PRODUCTIONS LLC netting them a quadruple dip!
We know this is working its way through the system. The city manager, Dave Cavasos has been informed. Acting chief Joe Yahner knows and PSB has begun an investigation into Lauri Burgett. If she hasn’t already, should be on paid leave soon.
Let’s see if she really has immunity from Phil OxyGordon and what asst. city Manager Ed Zuercher and city manager David Cavasos are doing about this. Think these two spineless pussies will act accordingly and say ENOUGH! It’s doubtful based on their prior inactions.
Since the OIG and DOJ read this blog, they now too know about Lauri Burgett’s antics and video company. We sure hope OIG comes back with an indictment of Lauri Burgett and hauls this unethical snatch away in handcuffs.
And if the Burgett’s want to beat OIG to the punch, there is one last out…
