‘I don’t buy that’: Questions arise over San Jose fire department’s Pink Poodle investigation

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‘I don’t buy that’: Questions arise over San Jose fire department’s Pink Poodle investigation
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Experts in personnel investigations and the former mayor are calling into question the honesty of the employees involved in the affair and the punishment handed out

into a San Jose fire crew’s infamous visit to the Pink Poodle strip club, experts in personnel investigations and the city’s former mayor are questioning the honesty of the employees involved in the incident — most of whom were not disciplined for behavior that appears to violate fire department policies.

All four of the firefighters insisted they could not recall that part of the trip. The investigation, however, concluded it is “more likely than not” that the two-minute stop at A.J.’s occurred at Tognozzi’s behest. The 100-page investigatory report was released following a lawsuit by this news organization; a judge ruled in favor of disclosure in July. The incident rocked the South Bay city in October after a popular Instagram account called San Jose Foos posted a video from outside the Pink Poodle showing a bikini-clad woman emerging from the engine with the caption, “Only in San Jose do you see a stripper come out of a firetruck.

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