Grand Jury Report on Walton Planning Department

[Misty]

So the developer saves $600,000 because someone made a clerical error at the planning department. Any thinking person is going to look at bank accounts of planning department employees.

State Attorney Eddins said "the missing money was never being looked at as a criminal act".

However, perjuring oneself before a Grand Jury can get your a$$ thrown in jail.

 

[Misty]

Mike McCormick was also the developer of Lakeside BMB

 

[Matt J]

I'd upload the plats, but the files are to large. You can look them up on the clerks website.

 

[Misty]

Seems this isn't the first time there has been controversy surrounding Mike McCormick

Redfish Village - changes to the development

 

[Suzanne Harris]

My guess is the person who got the money is one that always had their puppet in the planning department. Think about it, I get someone to change the numbers you pay me a percent of what I saved you. Hal Laird was a puppet who got cut loose. Cindy got the blame. As for Larry Jones, he is a totally different story.

 

[Misty]

My guess is the person who got the money is one that always had their puppet in the planning department. Think about it, I get someone to change the numbers you pay me a percent of what I saved you. Hal Laird was a puppet who got cut loose. Cindy got the blame. As for Larry Jones, he is a totally different story.

If the money was never collected Suzanne, no one but the developer benefited because he never had to pay it.

Unless you can prove that it was collected and the "puppet master" benefited, that is just a conspiracy theory on your part.

Everyone knows C. Jones has a puppet in the planning department. What everyone doesn't know is whether or not he testified before the Grand Jury and if he did, did he testify as to how he got his job and who he previously knew and worked for to get it? If not, why not?

Again, State Attorney Eddins said "the missing money was never being looked at as a criminal act". Perhaps that's the real problem!!

 

[Danny Glidewell]

It is very simple to figure how someone could benefit. For example, I charge you 600,000 less in fees than you owe and then you make me a gift of 100,000 or so. I make money, you make money and the taxpayers take it on the chin.

 

[Misty]

It is very simple to figure how someone could benefit. For example, I charge you 600,000 less in fees than you owe and then you make me a gift of 100,000 or so. I make money, you make money and the taxpayers take it on the chin.

Well Danny, I think you and I both know Melissa Ward didn't do that but I won't speak to that on the others. I don't know them. I did allude to people acquiring allot of land who have worked in County government but it wasn't anyone actually working in the planning department.

Who knows, maybe that's the problem...people couldn't grease their own palms because there were to many hands in the cookie jar.

 

[Patriot Games]

So Danny since you know her, do you think the jury got the whole story on cindy's employee or the story somebody wanted them to hear?

 

[Misty]

Catalano is the supervisor who "washed his hands of a hiring" because of pressure from Meadows to hire an unqualified person.

Pot calling the kettle!

I'm told Catalano also testified before the Grand Jury. I guess the questions of how he got his job never came...and IMHO, those questions weren't asked because the State Attorney didn't wanna implicate his best friends wife!!