Carmel — City Council members are criticizing City Attorney Doug Haney for not disclosing why his office hired a private investigator.
Carmel has paid Indianapolis-based International Investigations about $8,000 this year, according to city documents. But Haney isn’t saying whom the investigation targeted.
“I cannot comment on ongoing investigations,” Haney said Friday in a prepared statement. “The city, and I, have a duty to investigate as necessary to ensure that no laws are broken by any city employee or city entity and that public monies contributed by the city to nonprofit entities are properly accounted for and spent. . . . I periodically authorize private investigators to assist me in the performance of my duties as the city’s legal officer.”
But several City Council members on Friday said they would like to know why the city hired the company. And Councilman John Accetturo, who unsuccessfully challenged Mayor Jim Brainard in May’s Republican primary, called for Haney’s resignation.
