As the Asheville Citizen-Times reports, Wanda Greene pleaded guilty this week to several federal criminal offenses arising from her corrupt activity while serving as Buncombe County Manager. With the plea, Greene joins her conspirators and former assistant county managers Jon Creighton and Mandy Stone, as well as her son Michael Greene, in awaiting sentencing for their crimes. As the News Roundup has noted previously, Creighton, Stone, and the Greene’s participated to varying degrees in a range of corrupt schemes including accepting bribes in exchange for awarding county contracts and misusing county funds for their personal benefit. Keep reading for more news. Silent Sam. UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt announced this week that she had ordered the removal of the pedestal which supported the Silent Sam Confederate monument that was toppled by protestors last year. Folt said that the pedestal posed a threat to campus safety, and also announced that she would resign after spring graduation. Though Folt planned to stay through graduation, the UNC Board of Governors decided that she must leave her position at the end of this month. Aguilar. The News Roundup previously noted reports indicating that the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office apparently had failed to follow up on information from the State Crime Lab that linked Michael Ray McLellan, the suspect in the killing of Hania Aguilar, to a 2016 sexual assault. The Sheriff’s Office received the information from the Crime Lab in 2017, prior to Aguilar’s killing last year. WRAL reports that two deputies who were [...]
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