Nashville mayor Megan Barry has resigned and pleaded guilty to felony theft as part of her affair with her police bodyguard. We often debate whether a politician should give a smiling mugshot (and risk looking non-contrite) or a frowning mugshot (and risk looking guilty). Barry went with the smiling option. She will now face three years probation and a criminal fine.
Barry, 54, pleaded guilty to misappropriating more than $10,000 in city funds as part of her affair with Robert Forrest, who supervised the mayor’s security detail. She agreed to reimburse the city $11,000 and serve three years of probation.
Forrest also pleaded guilty to criminal theft in connection with the affair and agreed to pay $45,000 restitution to the city. He will also serve three years probation. Forrest’s overtime more than doubled with Barry and there were allegations of using official travel as part of the affair. Forrest accompanied Barry on dozens of trips, including nine on which he accompanied her alone.
Ironically, Barry was once a former corporate ethics and compliance officer.
Why the punishment too much.
Add her to the list of dip sticks.
I dunno ….. she looks pretty hot to me. Especially for 54 years old. How could the man resist?
Jay S – I think it is charging for the overtime that was the problem. 😉
“Takin’ care of business and working overtime” (BTO)
Moronic thing to say. Congrats.
Show the photo at the State Fair. Be fair. Or is it fare?
Felon Mayor Barry (no, not Marion) is selective in her love of the police apparently, compelling the Nashville PD to pass out water bottles to BLM protestors who were blocking major intersections and chanting about cops being murderers. Another feckless guardian of the public trust brought down (sort of) by her own licentiousness and contempt for any sense of ethics. Good riddance to this radicalized Leftist with the smug smile.
I live in Nashville — WELL PUT.
The business code of conduct
Most companies have policies in place to avoid fraternization & nepotism
Court decisions in some US states have allowed employers a limited legal right to enforce non-fraternization policies among employees, forbidding them to maintain certain kinds of relationships with one another. Since the 1990s, such corporate policies have been increasingly adopted in the United States in the pursuit of objectives such as protecting professionalism and workplace productivity, promoting gender equality and women’s rights, or avoiding and mitigating the impact of sexual harassment lawsuits.
Of which political party is she a member?
Since it was not mentioned, I assume she is a Democrat.
Is having an affair unique to one political party? I suspect it is more universal than that.
RK – yup. Dem and first female mayor.
You would have assumed right! I wonder why that tidbit wasn’t in the article???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Nashville- Redneck Disneyland. Poseur to the title Music City.
DG – Nashville has changed a lot – now it’s more like Hipsterville. At least the Bluebird Cafe is still there.
Amen to that! Some queer named Jason Owen raised hell to get Gov. Huckabee off a CMA Charity board:
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
You want to know why she is smiling? You want to know why she stopped to reapply her lipstick for this mugshot? It’s quite simple. Not complicated. No degree in psychology needed. It’s because she has no real shame with regard to what she has done–done to the people of her city, her husband, her family, the wife of her boyfriend or his family. No sense of guilt. No conscience. No sense of right or wrong. That’s why. She thinks that the photo is an acknowledgment of her fame. Her glory. She doesn’t perceive this photo for what it is–an attempt to capture and memorialize her image as a criminal. The same lack of shame, guilt and conscience allowed this married woman, along with her married boyfriend, to lie and cheat on their spouses, for years, not to mention, to steal tens of thousands of dollars along the way. Yeah. That, and, probably, because she had no fear. No real fear. Fear of doing time. Fear of having a felony conviction. She probably knew that she had so much dirt on others, in high positions, that her fate, of escaping catastrophic consequences, was secure.
How do you know that they were both married ? There’s no mention of that in the story.
Uh. . . because Bams, and me, have read about this in other places, maybe??? You should try Google sometimes.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
PS: And heck yes, Bams! She has no shame because for Democrats, there is nothing that matters except getting reelected. Which, being a Democrat, I look for her to be right back in politics somewhere else.
Thats what I thought. The woman seems to have no shame and no sense of responsibility either to her husband, her son, or to the people who elected her. She just seems to be so full of herself. How people can come such a long way with no real maturity speaks for itself. What we value today is more fluff than substance. Really sad!
Three years probation and a what? And still running for the next public office? That’s not a punishment nor a slap on the wrist
If the punishment rendered–at least, in the case of public officials–is meant to deter further crime and act as an example of consequences to avoid, how is the requirement, of simply needing to pay back the amount pilfered, from the coffers, going to frighten anyone from committing the same bad acts? The answer: it won’t. It’s like a bank robber, getting caught, and being released, after he gives back the bags of money. That doesnt happen. . .there are consequences. Jail time. Felony convictions. These two skated, and I suspect that it is because they have so much dirt on others that they didn’t reveal in order to obtain these sweetheart deals. They are, in reality, far worse than bank robbers. These are public officials, entrusted with access to this money–not just some guys, in ski masks, breaking into the bank’s safe. The latter group will never escape felony convictions and stints in prison.
Didn’t Patty Hearst marry her bodyguard? I hope it was all worth it. 😉
A female Navy Captain and astronaut had a similar story… love hurts…
why the punishment is only 3 years