Nevada Highway Patrol gets off scot free after $28 million SNAFU

THE STATUE OF LIMITATION [shorely statute, Ed.] means that no criminal charges will be filed after the Nevada Highway Patrol bought $11 million worth of Motorola kit but without the frequency licences to run the kit properly.

After the SNAFU was discovered, the powerful FCC gave the NHP a short time to fix the problem, meaning that Nevada had to shell out a further $17 million to keep the cops in business.

Last year we reported that a senior investigator was appointed to investigate the SNAFU after Eva Glass met a guy in a bar who slipped her the info and she broke the story.

But a report in the US press said that the improper spending of millions of taxpayers' hard earned cash will go no further, after the state's Attorney General concluded its investigations.

Although there were "improprieties", the statute of limitation and the fact the man who authorised the spending has retired means no criminal action will be taken against him.

But the FCC, which eventually told the Smokie Bears to stop illegally using the equipment could well fine Nevada a heap of cash for breaching its federal rules.

That amount has yet to be decided. µ

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