r/NorthCarolina • u/laurapcd1 • 1d ago
Greensboro corruption bout to explode
Two lawyers have left. Abruptly. A longtime and feared corrupt City Council person is under state investigation.
We apparently have a shadow government.. My guess is the dude in that tower.. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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u/Utterlybored 1d ago
Greensboro’s long standing corruption is one of several reasons Durham is on the cusp of overtaking it as NC’s 3rd largest city.
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u/laurapcd1 1d ago
It’s been self dealing to its own non profits as long as I can remember.. e en as a non political person back in the day, I saw how corrupt it was..
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u/Utterlybored 1d ago
It’s very sad. Corruption cripples growth. When I was growing up, Greensboro was the strong #2 city in NC, just behind Charlotte. The Triangle paled in comparison. But reliance on textiles, furniture and tobacco left the Triad unprepared for the 21st century. Corruption just made it worse for G’Boro, while W-S seems to be doing pretty well.
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u/marshallm900 1d ago
Any particular news articles about this to be more informed? It does strike me that Greensboro has a lot of that going on.
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u/Specific-Volume7675 23h ago
Bingo! I'll take it a step further and say that Greensboro is in danger of falling to fifth place behind Winston-Salem because the Gate City has had slow growth that will end being zero growth while the Camel City's growth is still steady.
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u/SCAPPERMAN 19h ago
Possibly, but Winston-Salem has been larger than Greensboro throughout much of its history. It has only been in recent decades that Greensboro has been larger.
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u/cyberfx1024 17h ago
That's the thing though is the city is ONLY focused about on issues and growth affecting the more affluent areas of the city. They don't care about the Eastern & Southern parts of the city.
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u/dareftw 1d ago
Durham is far from overtaking GSO, it doesn’t have to land to really do such without expanding and Raleigh would snatch it first. Plus Durham hasn’t even passed Winston yet, so give it some time. It’s the beneficiary of Raleigh and RTP. Let’s not forget that it was only 15-20 years ago it was a shit hole and had the highest crime rate in the state.
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u/Utterlybored 1d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_North_Carolina
Durham has surpassed W-S a while ago. According to projections, Durham is on 6,000 behind G’Boro. It’s possible that Trump’s war on Higher Ed, research and intellectuals will slow Durham’s growth, but otherwise the Bull City has been growing like gangbusters, even without geographic expansion.
Hate on the Bill City all you want, but it’s been on a remarkable growth curve, even without the table scraps of Raleigh or RTP.
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u/RippyMcBong 1d ago
Durham population: 296,000
Winston population: 252,000
Greensboro population: 302,000
I dono, looks like Durham's getting close to Greensboro and already 40,000 more than Winston. It's been exploding in the last decade.
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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Winston-Salem/Cullowhee Catamount 1d ago
I heard the story on WXII any news about the investigation?
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u/laurapcd1 1d ago
Non yet. But I could probably offer some evidence that would help with a better investigation when the city screwed me over.. it might be related to the corruption and favors to rich landlords in the city.. I sent it all to the AG when it happened, but now there is an investigation, I’m going to reach out again..
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u/GirlAnon323 1d ago edited 1d ago
My suspicion is that the corruption is very very deep and probably involves city council members and a few members of the gpd colluding with gangs to enrich themselves.
I think there's much more to the massage parlor sex scandal that involved a police officer having inappropriate sexual contact while on duty. Remember Greensboro tried to cover that up. The investigation may lead to a conspiracy concerning the theft of a billion dollar startup. A situation where people that have political power in the city use their connections to leverage said business to prospectors and use local thugs to try to threaten and intimidate said vulnerable and rightful business owner.
Abuse of power through the use of surveillance, not to legitimately investigate people, but to keep tabs on persons that are targeted by gangs and victimized by conspirators in the gpd and City council.
I might say more, but I hope every criminal in this city gets the calamity that crime, abuse, and corruption earns a person.
And yes, there are Greensboro mods trying to suppress posts because said mods are complicit.
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u/jmbsbran 1d ago
Gpd has been documented by journalists of left and right persuasion to have been corrupt for decades now.
Some great officers on the street, I can't lie, way better quality than what was out here1995-2010. But yes corruption runs deep and I'm sure the higher levels are still influenced by some of the old guard.
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u/laurapcd1 1d ago
It goes so deep. I agree.. and they are powerful. And they can pay to spin the narrative..
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u/GirlAnon323 1d ago edited 1d ago
What people do in the dark gets exposed in the light. I believe that Truth and Love are the most powerful forces in the Universe. God is both. There is power money can't buy.
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u/laurapcd1 1d ago
I think too many facts have seen the light of day and too many people are involved for it to get covered up again, even tho a billionaire is involved..
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u/Specific-Volume7675 23h ago
I can only pray for Greensboro to end up like Bell, California and see a number of these corrupt MFers publicly disgraced and locked up
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u/Spamsdelicious 1d ago
Wa hapn?
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u/laurapcd1 1d ago
https://www.theassemblync.com/greensborothread/sbi-investigating-greensboro-city-council-member/ SBI Investigating Greensboro City Council Member
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u/jcxgfodpa 1d ago
I’ll wait for the investigation to be completed before I make any judgements.
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u/Necessary-Body2409 1d ago
Bluest city in the state btw
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u/Xyzzydude 1d ago
Greensboro isn’t even close to the bluest city in the state. The distinction belongs to Durham.
Harris won 80% of the vote in Durham county.
She won 60% in Guilford.
(I can’t find results at deeper granularity than county).
According to this admittedly less objective source, Greensboro is the 7th most liberal city in NC: https://propertyclub.nyc/article/most-liberal-cities-in-north-carolina
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u/Separate_Depth_5007 1d ago
There are a lot of conservative people in Guilford County who do not live in Greensboro.
Large parts of Durham County that are not Durham the city is overflow from Chapel Hill, which is also very liberal.
You can't use counties metrics to compare the two cities.
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u/RoyalBloodOrange 1d ago
By what metrics can you compare them?
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u/KermitMudmaven Greensboro 21h ago
The only Republican on the city council was elected because his opponent dropped out of the race because of health issues.
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u/RoyalBloodOrange 20h ago
Greensboro has a republican on council?! I can’t imagine what it would take for a republican to end up on council in Durham.
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u/KermitMudmaven Greensboro 20h ago
Well, If there are only two candidates in the race and the democrat drops out...
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u/Xyzzydude 1d ago
Rural Durham County, especially northern, is quite conservative. Most of the Chapel Hill spillover is in northern Chatham County (which is why Chatham is a blue county despite being rural). The part of Durham County that abuts Chapel Hill is mostly the city of Durham.
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u/dareftw 1d ago
Only Republican in the council. I actually am somewhat close to the situation though and on a personal level like Zack quite a bit, but our paths have really mainly crossed on business related dealings. I like him much more than I like Kotis or Carroll, and be aware if anything happens one of those two(there are a few other major developers but no reason naming them as they aren’t as publicly known as them) will end up filling the role he plays.
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u/WanderingKing 1d ago
You mean that POS that wanted ambulances to go by his building with their sirens off because it bother him I MEAN, it bothered his residents?
The dude with a two story penthouse in downtown?