The horror perpetrated at the Edgar County Airport on aircraft there on the night of November 18 has cast a pall over much of the county, for two reasons: one, it’s brought more attention to the death of pilot Rusty Bogue in August, and two, it’s got some corrupt officials mighty tense.
While covered here extensively on the free side of the site, the details at the article in the current print edition are startling, as the timeline leading up to Bogue’s death is being explored in full in it. The material is expanded upon in the article, and continues in your next Read the Lead, ”Terrorism at Edgar County Airport“:
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EDGAR CO.—The investigation into the death of an Edgar County pilot took a dramatic turn on the evening of Monday, November 18, 2013.
That was when two airplanes, owned by Bryan Phillips of Terre Haute, were bombed/set afire as well as vandalized while sitting at the tarmac at the Edgar County Airport in rural Paris, Illinois.
Bryan Phillips is the Terre Haute man who owned the aircraft pilot Rusty Bogue, of RSB Aviation, was flying for Phillips when the craft went down in a wooded area outside of the airport, shortly after takeoff, on August 27 of this year.
The fire and vandalism came on the heels of the publication of a detailed timeline leading up to the death of Bogue being published in Disclosure’s November edition (Nov. 6).
It also occurred three years after a war of wills was being waged within the Edgar County airport between the airport manager Jimmy Wells and his buddy, airport board member Chris Patrick, and the man who would later die in the plane crash, Rusty Bogue.
It was this war that the very revealing timeline—which points out that Patrick, who was on the board of Citizens Bank at the time, asked Bogue to conduct illegal activity as regards Phillips’ airplanes—was set to outline. The timeline noted not only the request Patrick made of Bogue as regards illegalities with Phillips’ planes, but noted that Phillips had fallen behind in his loan payments on them at the bank where Patrick was on the board.
The shocking act of what can only be termed terrorism at the airport has underscored the importance of the public learning exactly what kind of machinations are going on within Edgar County entities, and not only the excessive waste of taxpayers’ dollars, but the sheer criminality to which those in the business of wasting those dollars will stoop in order to maintain the status quo.
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