Jun 20 2008
N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law Suing Randy Parton
The lawsuit filed in the civil division of Halifax County Superior Court names as defendants Moonlight Bandit Productions and its subsidiaries, along with the Northeastern North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission and North Carolina’s Northeast Partnership.
The defendants “lured the city into taking $21.5 million in bond debt for the start-up of the theater. They sold the concept as a way to bring jobs and much needed economic development (to the city),” said Jeanette K. Doran, an attorney for the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, at a press conference at the Institute’s Raleigh headquarters. The Institute is representing Garrett at no charge. It has a history of challenging perceived inequities in taxation and government.
Doran claimed the defendants withheld important information and gave false information to the city “so they (the defendants) could personally profit at the expense of people in Roanoke Rapids.”
Public money, Doran said, went to pay for a $600 girdle for Parton’s wife, trips to Las Vegas and liquor stores and apartment rent for Watson’s son.
This is an interesting law suit. I’m not exactly certain how the group is going ot be able to prove fraud, although they may be able to nail Parton for some of the wasted money he used. I don’t know. I’m no lawyer, but can you really sue someone based on poor decisions made by your elected officials? Really, they are the ones who need to be bushwacked for this.
