At the time, he was not married and the people on the tape make reference to a much younger person he was seeing.

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This wannabe A++ lister put up a battle but the ruling the other day ends it.

The recordings will come out.

Yes, on the recordings there are racist comments by people reporting to the person who made the recording and whom the A lister tried to fire.

There are also admissions of a type of brutality in the news a lot the last several years. The wannabe A++ lister knew all of this.

What might be most damaging though is some jokes the people being taped made about the wannabe A++ lister.

At the time, he was not married and the people on the tape make reference to a much younger person he was seeing.

How younger the person was is a question that should be be asked.

Transportation Secy. Pete Buttigieg

Judge Orders Release of Buttigieg Police Tapes

Transportation Secy. Pete Buttigieg has largely escaped national scrutiny of his 2011 demotion of South Bend’s first black police chief, but that may change, after a judge on Monday ordered the release of secret police tapes central to the scandal.

Although local coverage has focused on the possibility of racist rhetoric on the tapes, there may be political implications for Buttigieg. His handling of the improper internal police taping — including demoting the city’s first black police chief, Darryl Boykins — became the biggest scandal of his mayoral career and a nettlesome issue during his presidential campaign.

In fact, the judge in his order points out that no South Bend police were charged over the contents of the tapes, even after the FBI got them. Writing that he has not heard the tapes, the judge notes, however, that “sometimes the truth that is ultimately uncovered is not what was expected.”

Even before a judge ordered the tapes sealed back in 2011, Buttigieg refused to release them. Not until 2019 was it revealed that the content of the tapes could prove politically damaging to Buttigieg. The police are allegedly recorded prior to the mayoral election discussing using Buttigieg’s donors to get him to remove Boykins once he becomes mayor.

Buttigieg said during his presidential campaign that he had not listened to the tapes and did not know whether it was legal even to listen to them. In fact, however, his lawyers had previously, secretly, asked the one police employee who heard the tapes what was on them — and she told them.

For years, Buttigieg has maintained that he removed Boykins because he learned from federal officials, rather than from Boykins, that the feds were investigating the South Bend Police Department (SBPD) for taping an officer’s line, unbeknownst to that officer. Documents released by the city in 2019, however, confirm that Buttigieg actually learned about the tapes from his own chief of staff. Police last year alleged publicly that they only went to the feds because Buttigieg refused to deal with it himself. – Source