So the old players on town council probably think they have managed to cover up their corrupt shenanigans and are now getting bold and challenging Jeremy Hales to find it. I can't wait for the next chapter in this story!
Please thank those who stood up against the old major and his corruption. I’m so pleased to hear that Russ and Mary are out. Stealing from the residents is a criminal offence. They were warned to to the right thing and they chose not to and kept ripping people off. Thank you for doing the right thing in Otter Creek.
@@lookingbehind6335 the lawsuit has been filed. There are steps to legal proceedings. The town was granted an extension to produce the records that have been demanded
@@GLUFSAREN Nobody’s been held accountable yet. They have all been allowed to leave. 99% of all corrupt officials are never charged. Most are given a choice to quit without repercussions. Pressing charges on local officials isn’t in the best interests of other officials. Usually the crime and corruption runs deep and involves every office.
He’s not poking a bee hive and running. If you know, they only live there half time. He has enough on his plate with all the good he and his wife George do for people all over the world. I could go on and on but I’ll leave it quite simple
Be careful what you wish for Dan! Jeremy Hales will be showing everyone just how corrupt Russell Meeks & the "Good Ole Boys" really are😉 Congratulations Therese, time to clean house and take back what has been stolen from Otter Creek! Thank you WCJB TV20 for covering this!!
You didn't mention that there is a lawsuit in progress to show the financials of the town and what exactly "the bills" are that the council always votes to pay without showing what the bills are. There is far more that's gone on than what is being reported here. Glad to see new members willing to be transparent and do things the right way!
If he wants corruption what about the former mayor and the guy who reads water meters talking out a cart full of boxes from town hall? That's not something they are allowed to do. What about the councilman Don's most favorite thing to say, I can't agree with the motion to pay the bills when I don't know what the bills are. The permits the mayor granted and the permits he denied. Nepotism with the Former mayors son being a county commissioners and another is related to Russel as well. That is a very big issue and it is getting abused. There is a lot of corruption and he himself has called it out many times.
Very excited to see positive things and leadership come to this town and the people! It has been way too long when it once was a nice and safe community. Bless them all!
Otter Creek has new leadership. With time and a bit of work, maybe things for Otter Creek will be better. Alot of questions will have to be answered and things will have to corrected. I wish the people of Otter Creek happiness and joy. The new major has a big mess to clean up, but with the help of the town I know Otter Creek will become the place of pride for all who call it home.
I think a forensic audit would be a good idea. There was clearly some corruption as the perosn asked many times to see water bills and rates and then got assulted.
I've been watching Jeremy and George for years can't wait to see what's coming out tonight I thought you had a smile on his face it might be just showing off he's teeth
Mary is petty to leave her laptop and not the credentials/password. I work for a small company and our outsourced IT department gives us the passwords for our computers. Who gave that computer the password? Mary needs to call someone and state what her password is. It is the decent thing to do.
Windows based systems are very easy to unlock. They have programs now that can break passwords in minutes. No need to waste time and money waiting on a court order. The laptop becomes the property of the new clerk upon swearing in. She/he can just give permission to open.
What if the ex mayor brought in personal items like many others do at work and boxed them up to take them back home ? 🤔 makes too much sense I guess. But.... it could be the other way around too
Ok, he was trying to question Russ on the contents of the boxes, he claims them to be personal 😮 wth ??? 🚫 It's a government building...he is a liar. Just watch, records are gonna come up missing, he already had his bon fire.
"Corruption Corruption Corruption Corruption, show us one bit of Corruption " your first clue would be the fact a TV station is there, I don't think some back-water little town would be news worthy if everything was hunky dory
There is video of Russell and town employee removing alot of stuff from the building after the emergency cancelled meeting. Russell stated there was never an emergency to the news that the clerk had quit. After that Russell and employee were videoed taking alot of stuff out of the hall. Mary was videoed inside the office of the locked up building and tried to block the windows with boxes and debris to keep them from videoing her. A week later she was videoed walking towards the town hall and turned around and went back toward her house when she realized Jeremy was there and videoing. Russell Meeks said he was getting Mary's personal items when asked about the video of them removing things 1. Mary was in the building before the removal why didnt she get her things. 2. Thats is an aweful lot of personal items removed on video 3. How did Russell know what to remove when he stated he knows nothing about that office or what went on in there. 4. Why was Russell allowing Mary in the building alone after she quit After taking all this in no one knows what all was actually removed before or after the video where Russel was removing so called items of "Mary's " No one knows how many times Mary was in the building and what she was doing in there after she quit. Funny no one will cooperate with the new admin on the passwords to the computer and accounts.
LOL.. at Forensic audit.. with the now ex major next to him turning bright red. There is currently legal proceeding requesting all papers and they have denied access.. they going to jail
The new town council needs to find out what the old mayor tried sneaking off the property it looks like could be files that show evidence of corruption
There are so many shady people .. unfortunately a few hit on Otter Creek .. they need to get their just reward .. Happy , so happy things are happening now .. congrats on doing the right thing 🎉
People everywhere should pay attention to this. It is not an isolated case. The overwhelming majority of all local governments are doing the same thing. Some are better than others. Some hide it better than others. But don’t think shady stuff isn’t happening in your town. People want those jobs for a reason. There’s big benefits for anyone sitting on a council.
Why is it so hard to pull the hard drive out of a computer and attach it to another externally with a USB adaptor to get access to the files? Should take less than 10 minutes to get access to the files with that method.
boo, who... wittle 😩Jeremy has to drive around the scary highway. OMG! he now earned a nickname "Jeremy Scary Highway" 😩ugh is really bummed he cannot bother Turtle Lady is the real problem. What a liar👺 Jeremy Scary Highway and Preston are perfect for each other. Both miserable human beings who deserve each other 🤓🥳🤡
The man wearing the tan shirt on the bored (Don) needs to go. He is argumantative and has flip flopped on his opinions, acting more like a child then a true concerned council member.
It will never stop completely. All local governments operate the same way. Most people don’t pay attention to whats going on under their own noses. They just vote every couple of years and forget about it. That’s why the same people hold those seats for decades.
Mary was going in the locked up Town Hall building after they had cancelled the meeting due to energency. Russ told the news there was no energency the meeting was cancelled because the clerk quit meeting was cancelled because she quit. Why was she in there while the building was locked up? They have video of Mary in the office lol she was putting boxes and stuff in the vindows to block them from filming her 😂😂
I'll offer my service's to otter Creek as an animal control officer. All I ask for in return is for a small piece of property and a small home for my wife & I. I have experience in the animal control field.
While I don’t believe that federal state and local governments should never be corrupt but there is a better way to expose corruption than to put it on TH-cam what Jeremy did was way out of bounds of privacy for Russ and Mary they did not deserve that
You must be behind or skipped some videos because your comment is completely wrong. 3 years they've been warned just do the right thing and video would never be shown but they ignored him and were dismissive treating him as if he had no business being there. It's their own fault it got to this point and it had nothing to do with their privacy, you don't have privacy at work especially with the public
A forensic audit sounds like an EXCELLENT Starting Point.
So the old players on town council probably think they have managed to cover up their corrupt shenanigans and are now getting bold and challenging Jeremy Hales to find it. I can't wait for the next chapter in this story!
Russ haul out a lot of boxes on video.
Please thank those who stood up against the old major and his corruption. I’m so pleased to hear that Russ and Mary are out. Stealing from the residents is a criminal offence. They were warned to to the right thing and they chose not to and kept ripping people off. Thank you for doing the right thing in Otter Creek.
When is evidence of theft going to be presented ? There’s a lot of assumptions and accusations but no evidence yet.
@@lookingbehind6335 the lawsuit has been filed. There are steps to legal proceedings. The town was granted an extension to produce the records that have been demanded
Russ on the council
@@lookingbehind6335 you don’t give all your evidence publicly when you’re going to trial, idiot.
I think Jeremy Hales is the best thing that’s happened in this town for awhile. Times have changed and some of these people need to except the change
The town would not have changed for the better if he didn't buy land there. There wasn't anyone to hold them accountable.
Agree
@@GLUFSAREN
Nobody’s been held accountable yet. They have all been allowed to leave. 99% of all corrupt officials are never charged. Most are given a choice to quit without repercussions. Pressing charges on local officials isn’t in the best interests of other officials. Usually the crime and corruption runs deep and involves every office.
Jermey should run for mayor and not poke. He has a head on his shoulder. If you get invested stay invested. Don’t poke a bee hive then run.
He’s not poking a bee hive and running. If you know, they only live there half time. He has enough on his plate with all the good he and his wife George do for people all over the world. I could go on and on but I’ll leave it quite simple
Go Team Hales 🤗
He should be careful of what he wishes for, a Forensic Audit may reveal what is really happening.
damm right
Oh, it's coming!
Be careful what you wish for Dan! Jeremy Hales will be showing everyone just how corrupt Russell Meeks & the "Good Ole Boys" really are😉 Congratulations Therese, time to clean house and take back what has been stolen from Otter Creek!
Thank you WCJB TV20 for covering this!!
Exactly!!
The forensic audit is gonna happen.
You didn't mention that there is a lawsuit in progress to show the financials of the town and what exactly "the bills" are that the council always votes to pay without showing what the bills are. There is far more that's gone on than what is being reported here. Glad to see new members willing to be transparent and do things the right way!
If he wants corruption what about the former mayor and the guy who reads water meters talking out a cart full of boxes from town hall?
That's not something they are allowed to do.
What about the councilman Don's most favorite thing to say, I can't agree with the motion to pay the bills when I don't know what the bills are.
The permits the mayor granted and the permits he denied. Nepotism with the Former mayors son being a county commissioners and another is related to Russel as well. That is a very big issue and it is getting abused.
There is a lot of corruption and he himself has called it out many times.
Mary's granddaughter or something is married to one of Russpicious's family. Russpicious's wife was also the clerk before Mary. She trained Mary
Very excited to see positive things and leadership come to this town and the people! It has been way too long when it once was a nice and safe community. Bless them all!
Jeremy addressing the WD40 situation is the highlight of this story
Can’t wait to watch the next video. As The Odder Creek wheel turns.
@@virginiadellinger1686 No! Days of our lives in Odder Creek.
I laugh my butt off when asked the mayor if he has permission to WD-40 the squeaky doors. I’m like ABOUT DANG TIME!!! Lol😂😂😂
@@larrybarela8676 I like his south Park and muppet references 🎉😂
@@THESTAATS To whom are you referrring to?
Good glad Russ & Mary are out. Thank You very much for update have a great day 💕
Russ is not out he is now a councilmember just not the mayor.
Otter Creek has new leadership. With time and a bit of work, maybe things for Otter Creek will be better. Alot of questions will have to be answered and things will have to corrected. I wish the people of Otter Creek happiness and joy. The new major has a big mess to clean up, but with the help of the town I know Otter Creek will become the place of pride for all who call it home.
I think a forensic audit would be a good idea. There was clearly some corruption as the perosn asked many times to see water bills and rates and then got assulted.
Think Jeremy is pushing for that
Thank You WCJB TV20 for covering this story.
I hope this little town and it's residents live happily ever after 😊
Thank god they fixed that door
It’s corrupt simply from the fact that so much that is required to be transparent isn’t transparent.
Great show keep up the good work be safe my friends God bless all
What happened to 5he PAPERWORK THAT WAS SEEN LEAVING THE TOWN HALL?
Don and Russ said it was personal items😅 most likely reduced to ashes
Don now wants eyes on for a forensic audit...they will have to bring back alllllll the stuff they took out to make that happen but yes!!! Audit!!
Yep
I think that Don is afraid of the forensic audit. Especially if he has signed his name on the the checks.
It's all gone up in flames
@@Jason-vx1xe I suspect that too
I've been watching Jeremy and George for years can't wait to see what's coming out tonight I thought you had a smile on his face it might be just showing off he's teeth
#WhatTheHale$ so glad to see this town get the help they needed.
You would know anything WCJB 20 if it wasn't for the "town's most vocal person". He's trying to clean that little township up.
Mary is petty to leave her laptop and not the credentials/password. I work for a small company and our outsourced IT department gives us the passwords for our computers. Who gave that computer the password? Mary needs to call someone and state what her password is. It is the decent thing to do.
Get a competent IT person he can get into that laptop without losing any data passwords only stop innocent people.
Not her laptop the towns laptop....
It’s the legal thing to do. A judge will force her if she doesn’t cooperate.
Court order will solve that. Attorney Warm why aren't you on this? Or did you roll on out for good?
Windows based systems are very easy to unlock. They have programs now that can break passwords in minutes. No need to waste time and money waiting on a court order. The laptop becomes the property of the new clerk upon swearing in. She/he can just give permission to open.
Wonder if they will find the boxes taken out of the building at night by the ex mayor
The ex mayor said it was his personal stuff in the boxes so I doubt it. Too bad there weren't cameras.
What if the ex mayor brought in personal items like many others do at work and boxed them up to take them back home ? 🤔 makes too much sense I guess. But.... it could be the other way around too
Probably not.
@@KMyer I say PROVE IT
Mary was the one who worked in the office not Russ. Why would he have things in there? And why boxes upon boxes loads? Maybe one small box.
Very nice reporting. I hope you go back in 6 months to see how there doing
2 months. They need to stay on top of this
But now Jeremy Hales is suing almost everyone in Otter Creek. That is NOT a good thing.
Ok, he was trying to question Russ on the contents of the boxes, he claims them to be personal 😮 wth ??? 🚫 It's a government building...he is a liar. Just watch, records are gonna come up missing, he already had his bon fire.
The bad news is he keeps getting voted back in. They need new people to run for council get Russ and Don out of there.
Sounds like things are immediately looking up.
"Corruption Corruption Corruption Corruption, show us one bit of Corruption "
your first clue would be the fact a TV station is there,
I don't think some back-water little town would be news worthy if everything was hunky dory
I love this mini series, who are the script writers? I'd like to tip my hat to y'all.
Writers are on strike. This is all improv. 😂
There is video of Russell and town employee removing alot of stuff from the building after the emergency cancelled meeting. Russell stated there was never an emergency to the news that the clerk had quit. After that Russell and employee were videoed taking alot of stuff out of the hall. Mary was videoed inside the office of the locked up building and tried to block the windows with boxes and debris to keep them from videoing her. A week later she was videoed walking towards the town hall and turned around and went back toward her house when she realized Jeremy was there and videoing. Russell Meeks said he was getting Mary's personal items when asked about the video of them removing things
1. Mary was in the building before the removal why didnt she get her things.
2. Thats is an aweful lot of personal items removed on video
3. How did Russell know what to remove when he stated he knows nothing about that office or what went on in there.
4. Why was Russell allowing Mary in the building alone after she quit
After taking all this in no one knows what all was actually removed before or after the video where Russel was removing so called items of "Mary's "
No one knows how many times Mary was in the building and what she was doing in there after she quit.
Funny no one will cooperate with the new admin on the passwords to the computer and accounts.
DiAnna is the Clerk...holy crap
Temp clerk until they find someone mostly to get things in order and go through the computer possibly update the electronics and a website
@Shelby Shelby I wasn't asking for clarification or more information but whatever
Old "Beetroot Boy" just got redder and redder as the meeting went on.
Praying for Otter creek!
Good Report! Keep up the good work on the updates Channel 20. Looking forward to the follow up news report.
LOL.. at Forensic audit.. with the now ex major next to him turning bright red. There is currently legal proceeding requesting all papers and they have denied access.. they going to jail
I guess I am the first to comment. Thanks for the update. Yay for the new town council and new mayor.
What the Hales family sound off
I love this "Florida Man" series...... a new plot twist every week
Don't forget the Underware Bandit.
has anybody seen what was in the boxes russ and another man took out of the town hall
Awesome probably thanks to the hales and Jeremy
You should have shown Jeremy’s reply!
Ty Jermany for lighting the fire under you know who
The new town council needs to find out what the old mayor tried sneaking off the property it looks like could be files that show evidence of corruption
They missed making Jeremy going off the highlight of this story. He even ranked on Dan.
There are so many shady people .. unfortunately a few hit on Otter Creek .. they need to get their just reward .. Happy , so happy things are happening now .. congrats on doing the right thing 🎉
Out with the old and in with the new. Otter Creek seems peaceful and seems like a place i'd like to visit.
Get a competent IT person he can get into that laptop without losing any data, passwords only stop innocent people.
Russ the Sus and Marry Marry math is scary need to be investigated!
Not to mention, former mayor Meeks removed several boxes of files recently.
Yes
People everywhere should pay attention to this. It is not an isolated case. The overwhelming majority of all local governments are doing the same thing. Some are better than others. Some hide it better than others. But don’t think shady stuff isn’t happening in your town. People want those jobs for a reason. There’s big benefits for anyone sitting on a council.
Jeremy RULES!!
Yeah 🎉
What the Hales is he doing 😎👍
Why is it so hard to pull the hard drive out of a computer and attach it to another externally with a USB adaptor to get access to the files? Should take less than 10 minutes to get access to the files with that method.
Takes less than 5 for a competent person to bypass the password, no need to pull the laptop to bits
Y'all need to check out what's going on with JEREMY and George.
hope they waive the late fees because no bills were sent out
boo, who... wittle 😩Jeremy has to drive around the scary highway. OMG! he now earned a nickname "Jeremy Scary Highway" 😩ugh is really bummed he cannot bother Turtle Lady is the real problem. What a liar👺 Jeremy Scary Highway and Preston are perfect for each other. Both miserable human beings who deserve each other 🤓🥳🤡
Don only seems to be there to cash a cheque at the end of each month I haven't seen him do anything for the community
It’s about time
This town has 75 residence and they're trying to operate as a town when they don't have the money
The man wearing the tan shirt on the bored (Don) needs to go. He is argumantative and has flip flopped on his opinions, acting more like a child then a true concerned council member.
Oh yeah. We might get to see that. A bigger question is who's gonna get the one year seat?
What? Nobody voted to pay the "bills" again?
….how many people live there….?
Absolutely need a forensic audit - and it should be initiated from within, not initiated by residents. Show some transparency!
When dose the corruption stops when the governor office gets involved
It will never stop completely. All local governments operate the same way. Most people don’t pay attention to whats going on under their own noses. They just vote every couple of years and forget about it. That’s why the same people hold those seats for decades.
Shout out Jeremy Hales
Mary was going in the locked up Town Hall building after they had cancelled the meeting due to energency. Russ told the news there was no energency the meeting was cancelled because the clerk quit meeting was cancelled because she quit. Why was she in there while the building was locked up? They have video of Mary in the office lol she was putting boxes and stuff in the vindows to block them from filming her 😂😂
Tons of corruption !
That's great news but god help the new cancel to fix the mess that the old cancel left behind. Prays for the new wotkers.
If the new members are competent, the change will be almost immediate.
is russ the suss still on the council? guess I'll have to watch what the hales tonight to find out
Yes.....but now he has eyes on him and I doubt next election he will be elected. I think he barely got in this time.
I think there is a way to remove him. He can not be trusted.
@@grannykathyl7876 Jeremy is working on it
Odder creek need to get rid of that old Don And old Russel,there a waste of space.
Odder Creek may get back to Otter Creek. It will take time, but it will!
Jeremy hales for governor
I'll offer my service's to otter Creek as an animal control officer. All I ask for in return is for a small piece of property and a small home for my wife & I. I have experience in the animal control field.
What happened to all the files that Mary Mary took?And did Mary Mary Forget the computer password?🦊🇺🇸🇺🇸
Still dont trust Russell if iwas mayor i would change the locks on the town hall. And any other building in odder creek
Is don talking about him and Russ taking boxes out of City Hall and yes they were filmed lie detector test for both hopefully that's corruption
Got some dirty hands in till
Flo ri da!!!!!!
This town is a dumpster fire over and over.
How this town can be so messed up is beyond comprehensive.
Team Hales 1 Russ the Susss 0
I think the issue is futile. Didn't the Bible say that the Meeks shall inherit the Earth???
While I don’t believe that federal state and local governments should never be corrupt but there is a better way to expose corruption than to put it on TH-cam what Jeremy did was way out of bounds of privacy for Russ and Mary they did not deserve that
While working in town hall In council hours, there lives are not private, have you ever seen a video outside office hours?
Public officials dont get privacy in the course of their duties. Criminals dont get privacy. Put corruption in the daylight !
Public officials in their work in a public position do not get privacy. It is called sunshine laws.
You must be behind or skipped some videos because your comment is completely wrong. 3 years they've been warned just do the right thing and video would never be shown but they ignored him and were dismissive treating him as if he had no business being there. It's their own fault it got to this point and it had nothing to do with their privacy, you don't have privacy at work especially with the public
Beth you need more info before you make comments.