Yesterday's meeting

It's rhetorical question time:
If you were getting a divorce, and a private investigator hired by the other side -- i.e., your estranged spouse's attorney -- showed up at your place of employment, wanting to meet with you privately to ask questions, what would you do?
Unless you were a complete buffoon, you would realize that this private investigator has no real legal authority or power, that he is bought and paid for by your adversary, and that he certainly isn't out to do you any favors. And you would promptly show him the door.
So when Leonard Maharowski, the private investigator hired by the Fayette County Housing Authority, walked through the doors at yesterday's Fayette County commission meeting, did you not think that Commissioner Angela Zimmerlink instantly knew what was coming her way?
According to the Tribune-Review, Maharowski gave a report similar to the one he delivered to the housing authority board on Aug. 9, involving his so-called probe into a folder left behind at a restaurant where Zimmerlink had joined bousing authority board member Beverly Beal and former housing authority finance director Sonya Over for lunch on May 30.
(As we recall, news stories indicated that "Maharowski, P.I." presented a two-page preliminary report on Aug 9, so we hope he's made progress and perhaps there are now three pages.)

You can read the Trib story here: http://triblive.com/news/fayette/2451023-74/county-commissioners-zimmerlink-department-authority-zapotosky-heads-information-investigation-posit?printerfriendly=true
　
It has now been nearly three months since the other side starting making poltiical hay over this particular lunch meeting. The state police have investigated and thus far turned up nothing. District Attorney Jack Heneks keeps saying the matter is still under investigation. Now, we have Maharowski giving the same report at multiple public meetings.
The question everyone should be asking is, "Why?" (We're also curious to know if housing authority funds were used to pay Maharowski to give the same report at a second public meeting. We know Beal would like to know that, too, but she's having a dickens of a time getting full disclosure.)
The longer this drags on, with no tangible result one way or the other, the more we are inclined to side with Zimmerlink's assessment, as published in yesterday's Trib: "To imply there was criminal activity because I went to lunch with two people there, it’s the dark side of the political machine coming out in Fayette County," Zimmerlink said.
The state police and Heneks have an obligation to clear this up sooner rather than later. It appears to be an open-and-shut case, so why is it taking so long? If there's enough evidence to criminally charge Beal, or Zimmerlink or Over, or anyone at the housing authority for the release of a proprietary document, they should do that and get it over with. Or they should clear everyone's name by saying that nothing warrants criminal charges. Wouldn't they want that for themselves, if they were in the thick of this controversy?
Until either of those things happens, the charge of "playing politics" is the only one that appears to be sticking.