Fraud Investigators from the US Department of Labor Reported at Cleveland Community College!!! –Lie Detector Results are in –Don’t expect anything but Cover-up!! –Report by Robert A. Williams

Sources have reported:

1. The US Department of Labor (DOL) fraud investigators are on site at Cleveland Community College investigating allegations of fraud regarding DOL grant funds that were illegally diverted to other accounts. Notice that you haven’t heard a peep from the Shelby Star about this?
2. CCC Executive Vice President Dr. Shannon Kennedy has submitted to lie detector testing and the results are in. (But CCC refuses to tell me what the results were of the questions that were asked.) Again, notice no word from the Shelby Star or Gaston Gazette for that matter.
3. Previous CCC Board of Trustee investigations are being re-investigated by an outside investigator. Results may or may not be in. However, an item on the September 11, 2017 Board Meeting Agenda says a Special Report will be provided by Board Member H. Allen Langley. Not a peep from the Star about this either.

Folks, as President1al Candidate Ronald Reagan once said to his Presidential Debate Opponent Jimmy Carter during their 1980 Presidential Debate, “There you go again!” The Cleveland Community College Board of Trustees and their new (same as the old) do-nothing President are up to their same old tricks too. Keep quite, don’t talk to anyone who knows anything, falsify meeting minutes by not accurately recording information provided by the public into board meeting minutes, knowingly voting to accept the falsified minutes into the official Board of Trustee records, refusing to investigate and follow up on allegations made by members of the public as well as present and past CCC employees, releasing Press Releases to the Shelby Star that only report “good” news that is most often biased and false, refusing to provide to the public records and information that is determined to be public records and public documents in accordance with North Carolina and Federal law and other such propaganda shenanigans. Scroll on back folks and re-read the twenty or more articles that myself and others have provided to this website and show where the CCC Board of Trustees have done anything truly positive to resolve the many scandals at CCC. They couldn’t even get properly rid of former president Steve Thornburg-they had to pay him over $200,000 to get him to leave instead of just firing him for the pervert password “fuckshannon69” he created for his CCC account. Just about any fool in Cleveland County could have done better than this.

Back to the Report:
Cleveland Community College has accepted many government grants for big bucks over the years. Usually those grants required CCC to do certain things and make proper accounting to show that the $$$s were spent correctly. Knowingly misappropriating money from a grant from it’s intended purpose to somewhere else would be a crime called “fraud.” If two or more persons conspired to commit the fraud or any other crime, that would constitute a “conspiracy” which is defined by law as a felony crime, even if the underlying crime was only a misdemeanor.

So, with Sheriff Alan Norman on the CCC Board of Trustees, any indication of criminal activity at CCC would be promptly investigated thoroughly and turned over to the District Attorney’s Office for immediate prosecution, Right? You would think the answer would be an immediate YES. But that is wrong. Somehow Sheriff Alan Norman has been led to believe it would be a conflict of interest for his Sheriff’s Department to investigate an agency that the Sheriff himself has a leadership role in that agency. Some lawyer probably. Maybe even the DA. But hey, the fact is Sheriff Norman has not directed his law enforcement agency to investigate CCC for the criminal activity they have been accused of-for whatever reason. I recommend Sheriff Alan Norman resign immediately from the CCC Board of Trustees and get himself back 100% into his law enforcement responsibility as the Sheriff of Cleveland County so there will be no question of what the Sheriff’s duties and priorities are.

Then you have to consider what the Board of Trustees have done otherwise regarding the criminal allegations as well as other allegations and complaints of wrongdoing. Hey, they appointed an investigative committee who never talked to the folks who made the complaints, only those apple polishers who were accused. So, what did they come up with? A report that found nothing was wrong and blamed those who made complaints of being “disgruntled employees” who were lying and all other sorts of mayhem. Even big donors and Board members who complained of the CCC wrongdoing were talked about to the point several resigned (Patsy Rose and Ellis Monroe) from the Board and others vowed not to give another dime to CCC.

Now the CCC Board has initiated lie detector testing and outside investigators who have only been given the same biased material the BoT used to begin with, and the BoT denied a Public Records request for the all the material to be used in the lie detector testing as well as all the other investigations. It’s a “fix” and everybody knows it. Who can believe now anything the CCC Board of Trustees say or any report they release to the Shelby Star-who apparently just publish what CCC gives them and never ask any questions or verify any information released to them.

Now we hear the US Department of Labor, who awarded CCC a big grant has investigators out at CCC asking questions. You gotta remember the DOL is just like Sheriff Alan Norman, the BoT and the alleged conspirators at CCC. All these allegations have happened on their watch and any bad findings will reflect badly on them too. Especially the DOL who have put out big bucks and would appear incompetent if they were found out for not discovering crimes and fraud going on right under their own noses. Their careers would be shot. So, can you depend on the DOL finding anything? I don’t.

Another twist to the DOL is they are probably PO’d about having to come to po-dunk Cleveland County in the first place. Especially to do a job that should have been done by the local Sheriff and the local CCC Board of Trustees over bucks ($$$) that are big to us but are peanuts to them. They will probably be in a big hurry to get back to Washington or wherever they came from, so they will not be wanting to talk to the folks that reported the fraud just like the BoT.

So, Folks, be prepared to hear a big “har de har har” from the cover-up crowd on the CCC Board of Trustees and the apple polishers when nothing gets done about all the stuff going on at Cleveland Community College. But then go look in the mirror if you want to see the real culprits in all this mess. You have stayed home on Election Day, you have stayed home when all these CCC Board of Trustee members were wining and dining themselves. You stay home when the Commissioners have their meetings. You stay home when the School Board has their meetings. You are looking at a low information person who believes whatever the good-ole-boys and the Shelby Star tell you. And you might just stop reading my articles now that I have exposed you.

Or, maybe you have learned your lesson and you will decide to get out on Election Day for a change and run all those crooks out of office that deserve to be run out of office. This year’s Elections are near so we will soon see what you are made of and whether or not you show up to vote.

If this is you, keep on reading my articles and you will soon learn who to vote for and who to vote out of office. And why!!! We always tell the who and the why of it.

Stay tuned!!!