Ferguson testified no one at Common Council asked him who on the Pension Board told him disability was being approved improperly with taxpayers in the city being laughed at. When Morrison suggested the conversation with Pension Board trustee David Gould was complete fiction, Ferguson disagreed saying his fellow Council members just dismissed what he had to say as if they didn't care.
Ferguson was also accused of going negative by Morrison.
The Pension Board lawyer is suggesting Ferguson was laying in wait to launch an attack on senior city staff about the pension plan and misled his fellow Council members. Ferguson denied that claiming he wanted consensus when seeking outside legal advice. Morrison charged Ferguson didn't give a hoot about the city but was only concerned with his own selfish interests.
Ferguson admitted he was intimidated when he found out the Pension Board was going to launch the defamation lawsuit against him.
Ferguson testified the prospect of being sued was so intimidating, he was reluctant to say anymore about the pension plan but considered it too important. Ferguson claims Common Councillor Chris Titus, who's a criminal prosecutor, said there was no insinuation of wrongdoing in what Ferguson presented to Common Council about the city's pension plan. Pension Board lawyer Barry Morrison disagreed saying Titus mean't there was no substance to what Ferguson was claiming.
