Golden LEAF raked in audit

Submitted by bniolet on November 3, 2009 - 7:47am.
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LEAF TURNED OVER: The Golden LEAF Foundation failed to effectively oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development grants and violated open meetings laws, according to the State Auditor's Office. (N&O)

OUR PLAN: Congressional Republicans are pitching their ideas for health care reform, which are unlikely to become law, to show Americans what the party has to offer and to demonize and defeat Democratic initiatives. (McClatchy)

SUIT SETTLED: Oak Island Mayor Johnie Vereen agreed Monday to pay more than $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles over an embezzlement scheme by one of Vereen's employees at his license plate agency. The agency is expected to sign the agreement this week. Vereen and his attorney, state Sen. R.C. Soles Jr., have already signed it. (Wilmington Star-News)

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Re: Golden LEAF raked in audit

Submitted by BitterEXdemocrat on November 3, 2009 - 12:21pm.

No, Golden Leaf is NOT 'bulletproof'...there is SO much investigation going on right now in SO many corners of the wicked web...

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Re: Golden LEAF raked in audit

Submitted by domewatcher on November 3, 2009 - 10:16am.

Golden Leaf should not be audited! For God's sake, it's a behemoth political slush fund which by statute is exempt from audit. Leave those people alone. They finally got a pie job and then some fancy pants auditor comes along and says bad stuff.

The only one to get in trouble here is the auditor. The Golden Leaf is bulletproof. I feel sorry for the auditor who is being thrown to the lions.

We know what the Golden Leaf is.... so why not just leave it alone. It just causes heartache to bring the subject up. Just the mention of the Golden Leaf drives up health care costs. Anybody got a Tums?

As Rambo said to the sheriff: "Let it go."

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