Rick White
Rick White might be a pervert; he might be a really piss-poor investigator for the state police; he might be a drunk driver with a citation in Kentucky that shows just that. But around here, he’s the gift that keeps on giving. Because he’s a schleprock, and he can’t quit screwing up.
Case in point: This month’s back pager on the sawed-off little pipsqueak who should just quit and go collect trash.
And guess what? We’re the only ones that have it. Because when something major happens in one of his cases and it makes him look GOOD, he runs gleefully to one of his Wayne County ‘media’ buddies, Len Wells at the radio station or Marty David at the Wayne County (de)Press(ed), and toots his own horn…but when something major happens that shows he’s not all that, those outlets won’t breathe a word.
And this is one of the latter.
Here now is your noontime Read the Lead, Appeal filed in federal lawsuit, that thing lil Pricky didn’t want people to find out, and so he hasn’t done his PR thing (like he did with Kelly Henby…that Read the Lead is coming up):
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U.S. DISTRICT COURT, BENTON—The former sheriff of Wayne County has filed an appeal in his civil case against the Illinois State Police investigator who targeted him in a bogus sex assault case in 2010.
Jim Hinkle was given leave to file an appeal when a decision was reached for a summary judgment request May 7, the request made by the defendants in the case, state police investigators Rick White, and Tom Oliverio, White’s immediate supervisor at the time of the beginning of the incident (2010).
Hinkle, former Wayne County sheriff (2006-2010) and a former ISP Master Sergeant (retired), first filed action against White and Oliverio under a 14th Amendment civil rights case in February of 2012, alleging interference by the two as keeping Hinkle from finding employment, based on their quest to prove him guilty of a crime against his step-daughter…a crime which the girl admitted early on didn’t happen. When the girl admitted this, independently to an investigator at the Charleston, Illinois, police department, and then later to a private investigator (Kelly Henby, who used to work with Hinkle; see related story, page 3), White and Oliverio didn’t let it get go. Instead, White set about targeting Henby, and continued to pursue the case against Hinkle, despite the fact that upon review of the information submitted, a special prosecutor in Springfield, Lorinda Lamken, refused to prosecute based on the fact that the young girl had already said she’d made up her story in order to get Hinkle in trouble so she could go live with her father in Charleston.
White’s inexplicable pursuit of Hinkle as regards the charges has lead him to a lot more hot water than he was apparently prepared to immerse himself into…
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