You might recall that the city is being sued by a software vendor for alleged piracy.
If you are not familiar with the situation and want to know more you can read One time where the city cannot bully a vendor and Pirates as well as hypocrites.
The two parties attended a mediation session recently and have failed to come to a settlement.
It looks like the case is headed for trial. Many of the people involved from the city’s side are no longer employed by the city so they have not been able to sweep this one under the rug. The new administration does not need to protect them.
Should our former city employees be worried? I don’t think that the lawsuit is seeking damages from the individuals. If however the city loses this case our former city employees will probably be made to look like thieves.
We might start to learn some of the truth about what was going on behind closed doors in the past administration.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
With MOVING all of the City Offices 2 or more times because of Foster and Hunt and Baseball Downtown, they had to save money wherever they could, you know.
We dont and wont spend money at any business, shopping center or otherwise owned by Foster or Hunt.
No gas from the stations, no real estate, no concrete, no construction, and certainly not spend any money on baseball downtown.
This has even turned us off to spending ANY money downtown now that Foster and Hunt are synonymous with cheating and lying businessmen.
The History Books will reflect that in the future history of El Paso.
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Considering that virtually all the local gas that is pumped comes our of Western, you’re going to have to stay home or start riding the bus…..uh, I mean Brio.
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My experience with city IT was that they were enormously incompetent, but not thieves. I hope we learn more about this and that Firth & Co do not manage to sweep under the Executive Session rug.
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According to the lawsuit this had more to do with the finance staff than the IT people.
Brutus
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If individuals employed by the city committed criminal acts, such as software piracy or theft of intellectual property, can the city file criminal charges against those individuals and sue them personally to recover any monies the city might have to pay to the software vendor in this settlement? The city council that would take those bold actions is a city council I could support.
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I thought I read here a few weeks back that this dispute was settled and that the terms of the settlement were under lock and key. What happened?
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Went to mediation. Failed to settle.
Brutus
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