{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Two state employees are appealing their terminations. Mark Cassity, who was an Alcohol Beverage Control investigator, was terminated in March after an Office of Inspector General investigation found he had repeatedly had dinner with a then 18 year old girl who was used by the ABC in undercover investigations of bars and stores that sell to minors. Cassity allegedly asked the girl to kiss him after the dinner. Matthew Finley, a former lawyer with the Department of Insurance, was terminated in March after an Office of Inspector General investigation found he had been answering questions on a legal Web site, JustAnswers.com, despite being told by department officials several months before that he could not do so. Finley was suspended for 25 days in 2010 for using his state computer and other state resources to answer questions on JustAnswers.com while he was on state time. Hearings on the appeals in both cases are scheduled for August.
