David Bass is back with more on the fascinating deal Jim Black struck to settle his $1m. criminal fine back in May. The Wake County School Board was never told about the deal until after the fact.
In other words, those elected by the public never got a chance to ponder, “Hmmm, is nine acres of vacant scrub land in Matthews really worth $500,000?”
Nor did anyone bother to tell officials that Black owned $4m. worth of other real estate that might have been available to settle his fine. What a perfect little banana republic operation we have.
