Blue Grass Airport's Runaway Spending
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Eric Frankl will be paid $150,000 a year and receive a $600-a-month vehicle allowance as Blue Grass Airport's new executive director.
Four former top executives of Lexington's Blue Grass Airport stood before Fayette Circuit Judge Pamela Goodwine and pleaded not guilty Friday morning to theft charges stemming from hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses that the four billed the airport.
Three of the felony theft charges filed Tuesday against former Blue Grass Airport officials appear to refer to a $1,600 purchase of theater tickets, a $1,000 Eddie Bauer shopping spree and a $5,000 night at a strip club.
The story that sparked the investigation
Michael Gobb, executive director of Blue Grass Airport, spent 12 days in St. Petersburg, Russia, last year. The trip cost the airport nearly $13,000. Gobb stayed at the five-star Astoria Hotel, where his room cost more than $500 a night. He gave a presentation on air-cargo security at a two-day professional conference.
Database of airport managers' charges
