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Perdue Team Headed To Court

‘Sustainability’ Plan Involved Payments to SAS

By Don CarringtonExecutive Editor

RALEIGH

Documents obtained by Carolina Journal show that a plan re-cently scrapped by the North

Carolina Department of Commerce in-cluded a provision to pay Cary-based software developer SAS $1.5 million in federal funds meant to assist low- and moderate-income families.

Assistant Secretary for Commu-nity Development Henry C. McKoy,

who oversees the annual allocation of approximately $40 million in fed-eral Community Development Block Grants, created the plan. Each dollar would have traveled through three other entities, including a nonprofit organization McKoy created, before reaching SAS, documents show.

According to the agreement, four counties selected by McKoy — Orange, Yadkin, Buncombe, and Edgecombe — each would have received $600,000. Each county would keep $60,000 for participating in the scheme and trans-fer the remaining $540,000 to the North Carolina Sustainability Center, a non-profit that McKoy chaired last year.

Under the plan, the NCSC would retain $165,000 from each county — $660,000 overall — and provide some planning services for each county. The NCSC then would transfer the remain-ing $375,000 from each county, or a to-tal of $1.5 million, to the North Caro-lina Association of Regional Councils of Government, also known as COGs.

By Don CarringtonExecutive Editor

RALEIGH

Even though Gov. Bev Perdue’s 2008 campaign for governor ended nearly four years ago, the

upcoming trial of New Bern attorney Trawick “Buzzy” Stubbs should offer further insight into her campaign’s mysterious aircraft provider program.

Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby maintains that the 10 flights Stubbs paid for, reported by Perdue’s campaign staff months after the election, amounted to illegal cam-paign donations.

The trial, scheduled to begin June 11, also may provide insight into Per-due’s decision not to seek a second term as governor.

Perdue never has acknowledged publicly when she learned her cam-paign did not pay for more than 40 flights she took in privately owned air-

craft to attend political fundraisers.In addition, Perdue has not ex-

plained fully a number of flights that she took as lieutenant governor. A Car-olina Journal review of 2007-08 expen-ditures by Perdue’s office reveals that, in addition to not paying for a number of campaign-related flights, she also made no payments to private aircraft owners for travel related to official state business.

Records show flights that com-bined official business with cam-paign events. In October 2010, Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson ac-

knowledged the flights and told CJ that travel provided to Perdue when she was conducting official state business was treated by the Office of the Lieu-tenant Governor as a gift to the state from those providing the flights.

A Wake County grand jury in-dicted Stubbs Nov. 28. He is accused of funneling more than $28,000 through his law firm to pay for aircraft to fly Perdue to campaign events during 2007 and 2008. The free flights were not reported on campaign finance reports, a violation of campaign finance laws. The two specific charges are obstruc-tion of justice and causing the Perdue campaign committee to file false re-ports. If convicted, in addition to fines and possibly prison, Stubbs likely would lose his law license.

Stubbs and his attorneys do not dispute the basic facts surrounding the charges, but they believe Willoughby should have focused on the Perdue campaign organization instead of Stubbs.

“We can’t blame [Stubbs] be-cause the campaign was disorganized and didn’t know what it was doing,” Stubbs’ attorney David Rudolf said at

EPA special agentsinterrogate Ashevilleman about emailBy Karen MCMahanContributor

RALEIGH

An Asheville businessman is left with more ques-tions than answers after

a May 2 visit to his home by two armed special agents from the U.S. Envi-ronmental Pro-tection Agency, accompanied by an Asheville police officer,

apparently to question him about what the EPA interpreted as a “cryptic and concerning” email.

The incident is under inves-tigation by the office of Sen. Rich-ard Burr, R-N.C.

Larry Keller, who runs a computer consulting business from his Asheville home, sent an email April 27 to the EPA in an attempt to reach Al Arm-endariz, EPA regional admin-istrator for Region 6. Two days earlier, a video from 2010 was

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Trawick “Buzzy” Stubbs at a May 11 court appearance. (CJ photo by Don Carrington)

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Cover of a presentation produced by SAS in November 2011 which identifies Henry McKoy as a new “key stakeholder.”

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