Chapter 259

Friday morning I made arrangements to meet Caroline's family in her hospital room at 10 on Saturday morning. Then my morning was normal until after lunch.

At 1 two state police officers delivered a subpoena for me to testify before a grand jury into the deaths of the Johnson Brothers taking place next Friday at 9 AM.

A few minutes later I called the Mountain County sheriff's office looking for the sheriff. When he finally picked up I asked if the forensic investigation had been completed into the brother's deaths, that I needed a copy for my legal department. I told him it was procedure anytime that a death occurred with JBG personnel on site and their weapons had been fired.

I then called Courtney and told her to go pick up the copy and email it to me immediately.

I would have Jenny get a copy of the police report and investigation on Monday through official channels.

I called Jenny and read her the subpoena. Jenny was not happy. With the type of grand jury that was scheduled she said I could not have an attorney with me.

Oh well, I made the decisions and followed those decisions with action where ever they may take me. The subpoena was vague; as all subpoenas are, they were intentionally that way. It stated the inquiry was into the Johnson Brothers deaths but it really was like throwing a hand full of sand into the air. Once the sand left the hand it went everywhere and so could they.

I put the grand jury out of my mind so I could deal with more pressing issues at KCC. KCC has it's first basket ball game of the season tonight. It was an away game; I decided to keep the policies and procedures same as last year. That meant I sent armed guards and each of the busses to keep the kids, the drivers and spectators safe. Each bus carried one of security's portable GPS units that would be monitored from the time they left today until the students returned to campus after the game on Saturday.

It took a few minutes to get everyone up to speed on policies and procedures and to refresh everyone memories from last year. By luck I had the same crews working all away games this year as last year.

With the busses on the way it was time for Patti and me to go home. I needed to be on time for tonight's meeting and then the after meeting with Eric.

To my surprise at our meeting I learned that not only I but Courtney, Justin, Ronnie, Shelly and Sandra had been delivered subpoenas today. I remembered that I had sent Ching Lee and Vicky on to Michigan before any investigation began. Luckily they had been the last ones to get into the barn and by then the shooting was over.

I wish there had been some popcorn, it was fun watching Jason and Jenny debating on what actions we should take for the employees of JBG. Jason knew of an attorney that specialized in grand jury cases. Curtis had worked with him in the early years of Jason's tenure on the governor's task force. Jason was going to contact him tomorrow. The discussion had taken two hours.

Curtis Warren was the great grandson of a former Chief Justice of the US Supreme court. Lorrie recognized the name immediately as a rental customer of one of the Florida rental houses last winter and he had booked the best one for the month of January this year.

We had just finished when Eric and Frank Love entered our meeting. I was not expecting Frank. I wondered what kind of surprises were in store now.

"You came at the right time; we just finished discussing the subpoenas we received today for the grand jury investigation in to the Johnson brother's untimely death," I said.

"It is kind of interesting that the prosecutor rushed to make it happen just a few days before the election," Eric replied. "Have you lined up an attorney yet?"

"I think so, I am going to contact Curtis Warren tomorrow to see if he will represent JBG," Jason replied.

"He is the best you will find. Tell him I said, 'Hello' and have him call me after you talk with him; DHS will work with him on getting the jury postponed until after the New Year. McJames wants nothing to interfere with the Michigan and Minnesota college arrangements."

"By the New Year it will be forgotten and may just disappear, Eric replied then added. "I would recommend that you contract his services with a yearly retainer. It will be well worth it with the businesses you are in now. His firm is recognized in all fifty states."

"Ok now on to other business today there was an unpublished auction on at the Government Equipment Liquidation web site for government agency's and selected foreign countries," Eric said.

"Ty and I worked up a wish list of some things we knew you were going to need for the airport. This auction was announced as a one day auction or I would have contacted you to look at it," Eric replied.

"So I took the liberty of updating the account Robbie made for the published Gov auction site by using the DHS grant number you were issued to receive the airport grants." Eric and Frank began passing color pictures of the equipment as they talked.

"Lorrie, seeing that the Morton Airport is really your baby, here is an early Christmas gift if Marcy agrees to it.'

"As soon as Marcy writes a check, JBG will own three aircraft tugs, one for small light aircraft, another for medium aircraft and the last for heavy duty aircraft. They are painted navy gray but you will have to arrange freight from Norfolk"