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 but there was talk of having to significantly raise the tax rate because of the pension plan's debt.
Ferguson admits he was intimidated when he found out the Pension Board was going to launch the defamation lawsuit against him and he was reluctant to say anymore about the pension plan but considered it too important.
Morrison 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 and a plan to go negative.
