Irish Festival Committee Member Charged with Contempt Following Kansas City Conference
A member of an Irish festival planning committee has been charged with criminal contempt following leaving grand jury proceedings in order to attend a Kansas City conference on Irish and Celtic festivals.
The grand jury proceedings are related to allegations that the Irish festival president, who was also at the KC Irish & Celtic festival conference, was driving drunk when he fled from a state trooper in February.
Kathryn Barefoot is the Great American Irish Festival committee member who was subpoenaed to testify at the Grand Jury. And most of the information seems to come from the attorney of the Utica, New York, Irish festival president Matthew Sullivan - who is himself a state police investigator .
My favourite part is when Sullivan’s attorney is quoted as asking “How long was she obligated to sit there and wait without hearing from anybody? I don’t know if she should have taken a sleeping bag and food provisions”. It’s my favourite part because the article then says that she left at 1:40pm and I don’t know too many people who go to bed at 1:40 in the afternoon.
Read the full story in the Utica Observer-Dispatch
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