Momentum Partners James R Budd, Nick Joseph Piornack And Nancy Hoffmann: It's Time To Come Clean Or Run Like Hell!

Now that Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann is in the news I thought it time that I point out the fact that I expressed concerns about her business relationships a long time ago and to say to Ms Hoffmann it's time to come clean before you drag down a whole lot more people with you and piss off some folks who just might retaliate.

James R Budd

According to the NC Secretary of State,  James Budd is the registered agent and managing member for the following companies:

SURF'S WILMINGTON, LLC 4901 GLENWOOD AVENUE, SUITE 200, RALEIGH NC 27612

TRICORE VENTURES, LLC  4901 GLENWOOD AVENUE, SUITE 200, RALEIGH NC 27612

GREENSBORO PARKING GROUP, LLC  6221 O'CONNER ST., SUITE 200, RALEIGH NC 27617, recently headlined in the News & Record for "acquiring" City funding it wasn't entitled to receive.

HEALTH STYLE VILLAGES FUQUAY- VARINA, LLC 4901 GLENWOOD AVENUE, SUITE 200, RALEIGH NC 27612

MOMENTUM COMMERCIAL BROKERAGE, LLC 106 BARNHARDT STREET, GREENSBORO NC 27406 Here he lists the actual business address as 345 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRIVE, GREENSBORO NC 27406-- a rented house-- and his partners as ROBERT BATES and NICK PIORNACK 3512 STONEGATE DRIVE, CHAPEL HILL NC 27516. I wonder if the City of Greensboro granted Mr Budd a Business Privilege License for 345 Martin Luther King Jr Drive being that is listed as a residential property?

And I can't help but wonder, since Mr Budd and Mr Piornack are now operating a commerical real estate brokerage firm, do either of them actually have a real estate brokerage liscense? You see, I couldn't find any listing.

DEVELOPING MOMENTUM DOWNTOWN - GREENSBORO, LLC 6221 O'CONNOR STREET SUITE 200, RALEIGH NC 27617

Mr Budd's Linked-in and Facebook profiles list a few more ventures that don't reflect his having any part at the Secretary of State website-- at least none that I could find.

On Sunday, March 24, 2013 I wrote of possible connections between James Budd and the Gambino Crime Syndicate. Did anyone from the City of Greensboro or the local media check it out or is Mr Budd yet another Rocco Scarfone hiding out in Greensboro, laying low and laundering money?

I'm speculating Robert Bates got out because he figured out Jim Budd has graduated from drug runner to real estate/restaurant confidence man. Is Nick Piornack his newest target? Or would that be Nancy Hoffmann? Does the City of Greensboro run criminal background checks on the people they loan hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to? I asked in March, they were given the money months later, did anyone check?

It needs to be remembered that Zack Matheny and other Greensboro City Council members read this blog daily to learn the latest I've written about them. Zack has admitted as much in e-mails.

And of note is that most of Mr Budd's ventures are belly up. It's hardly a wonder folks are worried that he can't afford to finish the project downtown-- robbing Peter to pay Paul appears to be his long standing Modus operandi. From Wikipedia:

"In business, modus operandi is used to describe a firm's preferred means of doing business and interacting with other firms."

Nick Piornack

Previously I wrote of how Councilwoman Nancy Hoffman appointed her business partner, NICK PIORNACK to the Board of Directors of Downtown Greensboro Inc. Then she got DGI/City tax dollars to fund her own building.

Next we learn of loans they weren't supposed to get-- incentives they never qualified for but claimed they qualified for and asked to receive-- fraud. Then the City paid.

And here's an interesting note: From the February 5, 2013 Greensboro City Council Meeting when Council passed the "Good Repair Ordinance" for which Jim Budd and Nick Piornack's partner Councilwoman Nancy Hoffman has recently been in the news for violating:

"Nick Piornack, 106 Barnhardt Street, spoke to his company’s revitalization and investment of a Downtown property; difficult marketing opportunities for Downtown due to neglected properties; and stated he was in favor of the amendments. "

Councilwoman Hoffman wanted to make the ordinance even tougher than it is. She thought a huge infusion of City tax dollars would give her a jump on the competition and allow her to buy up those properties that couldn't comply. She made sure her business partner testified in favor of a tough ordinance.  Funny how it comes back to bite you, isn't it Nancy?

According to the Guilford County Register of Deeds, 106 Barnhardt Street (The Worx Restaurant) is owned by FACE OFF LLC of 4766 MELVINA DRIVE GREENSBORO NC 27406. The NC Secretary of State list the owners of Face Off LLC as Robert Michael Conroy and Donna Gray Buchannan both of 4766 Melvina Road. The listed managers are Robert M Conroy and Wrenchel Stokes. And they're deliquent to the tune of $7,549.10 on that one piece of property. I don't know if Road or Drive is correct as both are used in the State filings.

How is it that every time I start digging I find yet another tax delinquent owner of yet another piece of downtown Greensboro real estate? Could it be that with 50 years of sinking money into downtown redevelopment, it still hasn't worked or are they all really just a bunch of crooks refusing to pay their share?

The Secretary of State lists Nick J Piornack, James R Budd and Sherman R Lyle of Clemmons as owners of The Worx-Gso, LLC with Nick J Piornack as the registered agent.

Nick Joseph Piornack is also registered to the following businesses, most belly up as well:

SAVARINO ENTERTAINMENT, L.L.C. 3100 TOWER BLVD, SUITE 802, DURHAM NC 27707

UNIVERSITY CLUB ENTERTAINMENT, L.L.C.  3100 TOWER BLVD, SUITE 802, DURHAM NC 27707

SEASONED TICKET, L.L.C.  3100 TOWER BLVD, STE 802, DURHAM NC 27707

 DPN ENTERPRISES, L.L.C. 3100 TOWER BLVD., STE. 802, DURHAM NC 27707   
        
MOJITO SUN VENTURES, LLC  3512 STONEGATE DR. CHAPEL HILL NC 27516

It would appear the business Modus operandi of Mr Piornack is also much like that of Mr Budd: Rob Peter to pay Paul...

Nancy Hoffmann

As I pointed out in Nancy Hoffman's City Council Disclosure Form not everything is as it seems. (I recommend you read it as it is extensive.) For example: one of her many businesses, South End Partners LLC lists Nancy Hoffmann as the sole  proprietor of the business in the filings prepared by Desmond G Sheridan but if she is the sole  proprietor then why use the name "Partners" if not to deceive?

As a matter of fact, the Councilwoman's disclosure form disclosed so little it was of no value what so ever and reinforces why Mayor Vaughan refused my public attempts to make disclosure mandatory earlier this year.

James R Budd is a regular reader of this blog and member of Real Progress For Greensboro having read almost every day since I first posted about him on Sunday March 24, 2013: If you're not already a member there I recommend you join and demand answers from Mr Budd and others. It's time he, Mr Piornack and Councilwoman Hoffmann came out of hiding, took reporters' telephone calls and started answering questions: Pronto!  Or get the Hell out of Dodgeboro!

And Ms Hoffmann, I know more than I'm telling... yet.

Heard Spice Cantina went under...along with a couple hundred thousand Greensboro taxpayer dollars

"A property south of the train tracks behind South Elm Street and the Cascade Saloon was sold in 2008 to what would become Greensboro Parking Group LLC for $1,050,000, with a $52,500 real estate commission, half of which was paid to “NAI”.

NAI, as in Robbie Perkins' real estate company

The most crooked mayor in Greensboro's history

until Nancy Vaughan

In February 2012, Greensboro’s City Council passed a resolution approving a $200,000 loan, $100,000 of which was to construct a parking lot that has been completed, and a second $100,000 for a companion restaurant to Worx. Current City Council members who voted for the loan include Nancy Hoffmann, Yvonne Johnson, Zack Matheny, Nancy Vaughan and Marikay Abuzuaiter.

This is on Nancy, Yvonne, Zack, Nancy and Marikay's heads.

These current City Council Members 

and one crooked Greensboro taxpayer funded lobbyist

are directly responsible for what took place

The developer agreed to, and was required to comply with, specified contractual conditions including; “The second $100,000 of City loan funds will be invested in the last $100,000 of project improvements after confirmation that the developer equity and bank funds have been fully deployed into the project. Architect’s or engineer’s certification of work completed on the project and work remaining to be done will be provided to the City prior to the release of any City loan funds. Committed funds totaling $2,272,860... Capital investment must be complete and in-place by July 31, 2013. The parking lot and restaurant tenant, [Spice] Cantina, are required to create at least 4 new full-time positions [by] July 31, 2013. Developer must confirm that all funds inclusive of the tenant up-fit funds of $179,000 necessary to open the restaurant are available and ready to be invested in the business and present a signed lease ... that will own and operate [Spice] Cantina before the second $100,000 of City loan funds are disbursed. The second $100,000 will be used in the renovation and opening of the restaurant and will be reimbursed ... only after all work is substantially completed on the project. The second $100,000 of City loan funds will be invested in the last $100,000 of project improvements after ... bank funds have been fully deployed into the project. No advance payments shall be made.”

Instead of letting organic  forces of free market capitalism

determined who won or lost, 

Nancy, Yvonne, Zack, Nancy and Marikay

chose to allocate money to Council cronies,

which in my view, is a subtle form of fascism

which hurt unconnected businesses down the street

A member of the Momentum Group, whose principals including Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI) board member Nick Piornack, informed three City staff members last week that “75 or 80 percent” of the Cantina was complete.

Natty Greene’s poised to move to Revolution Mill

Natty Greene’s co-owner Kayne Fisher 

has previously said that the company will soon outgrow its production facility...

...Revolution Mill Business Development Manager Nick Piornack 

couldn’t be immediately reached for comment Thursday. 

But it appears that if city council approves both grants this upcoming Tuesday, 

Natty Greene’s is here to stay.

Councilman Jamal Fox, 

who represents the district where Revolution Mill is located, 

said he is confident that the resolutions will pass."

http://triad-city-beat.com

Yet the developers have submitted invoices, and received payments from the City, for all but $1,642.86 of the second $100,000. A guesstimate of the project’s progress appears to be far less than the 75 percent cited.

Greensboro's City Council 

just approved millions for a Nick Piornack connected venture

just like they did for his newly failed restaurant

which stole business from competitors down the street

with City Council's blessing 

and their own tax money

The Momentum Group has been in discussions with City Council member Nancy Hoffmann to develop a couple of properties Hoffmann recently purchased on Lewis Street, which would utilize the lot she voted to fund for patron parking.

Nick Piornack as in Nancy Hoffman's business partner, 

Nick Piornack?

Billy Jones

December 5, 2015 at 4:56 PM

Personal guarantees were required from the investor group that included Piornack, whom Nancy Hoffmann nominated for the DGI board.

Nancy Hoffmann Campaign Contributors 

whom Hoffmann voted taxpayer money/largess for, 

which Greensboro's press won't report;

Marty Kotis, Wayne Abraham, Andrew Brod

(Agnes) Gary Brame, George Carr, Dawn Chaney

Betty Cone, Shirley Frye, John Graham

Chip Hagan, Ross Harris, Cyndy Hayworth

Henry Isaacson, Marc Isaacson, Tobee Kaplan

Milton Kern, (Emily) Ed Kitchen, Deborah Lankford

The Lebauers, Reid Phillips, Nick Piornack

The Samet family, Michael Shiftan, Susan Schwartz

Desmond Sheridan, Barry Siegal, Doris Tanger, Cecilia Thompson

http://candidatereports.myguilford.com/files/1612_DOC080315hogf-08032015134439.pdf

Kinda makes you wonder, don't it?

Previously, Hoffmann consented to allow a tenant to apply for a retail grant for her Elm Street building for electrical work, frame and sheet rock, and plumbing. In my view, the grant, which was funded by a Hoffmann Council vote that allocated monies to DGI, benefited her personal property. At a Council meeting, Hoffmann stated “No taxpayer money was spent on my behalf for the 302/304 South Elm building.”

Think the News and Record 
will report Nancy Hoffmann's connections to Nick Piornack
after not reporting her lying to her taxpaying constituents
for self dealing?

It appears the developers have not deployed the agreed upon private monies before asking for the second $100,000 as required. The capital investment and jobs were not in place by the deadline, and the required lease was signed by Piornack, as managing partner of “Spice Cantina, LLC”, even though Piornack is a member of Greensboro Parking Group, LLC, which is listed as the landlord. The City declined further comment on whether the “up-fit funds of $179,000” for the restaurant were “available and ready to be invested”. Nancy Hoffmann did not reply for comment.

Nancy Hoffmann is a crooked, pay to play politician

among others who serve on Greensboro's City Council

who stole/steal from other's tax money 

and the News and Record won't report it

because the News and Record is in on it, deep,
and they keep letting it happen
along with John Hammer and Roy Carroll.

At an Economic Development Committee meeting on April 11, Marikay Abuzuaiter raised the issue of oversight on various loans, grants and incentives provided by the City, specifically citing the Greensboro Parking, LLC loan, and informed her colleagues that Momentum had not satisfied the requirements of the resolution passed by City Council. Abuzuaiter thinks there may be more unfulfilled, undisclosed contracts.

In December, 2013, the contract was amended by City staff without formally informing City Council, extending the “Time of Performance 7/31/2013, to 12/31/2013”. The document states “The City contact for all matters including request for payment and reporting under this agreement shall be Kathi Dubel. Dubel, like former City Manager Denise Turner Roth, served as a lobbyist for the Greensboro Partnership before working for the City.

The City appears to have extended a noncompliant contract after payments were made and obligations not produced, which now looks like it’s in default."

http://yesweekly.com/article-18090-developer-can%25E2%2580%2599t-pave-over-holes-in-city-loan-contract.html
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Greensboro's News and Record reported none of the following;

Robbie Perkins, Nancy Vaughan, Zack Matheny, Jim Kee, Yvonne Johnson and Nancy Hoffmann just cost taxpayers $586,000

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/09/robbie-perkins-nancy-vaughan-zack.html

It's hard to have a crooked government

without a crooked press corps

at the local paper of record
and Roy's Rhino Times

On Nancy Hoffmann's DGI Self Dealing and Conflict of Interest

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/on-nancy-hoffmanns-dgi-self-dealing-and.html

Allen Johnson, Doug Clark, Margaret Moffit, 

Jeff Gauger, Amanda Lehmert, Joe Killian,
Roy Carroll, John Hammer, Mark Sutter, Brian Clarey, Jordan Green, Eric Ginsburg, 

Susan Ladd and Stephen Doyle let this happen

without informing the public of the corruption

Kathy Manning, Randall Kaplan's wife, lobbying for a GPAC and their new hotel, with some Nancy Hoffmann, Dawn Chaney and Nancy Vaughan

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/kathy-manning-randall-kaplans-wife.html
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Will Nancy Hoffman vote to fund DGI this evening, after her "final subission" to be DGI's landlord?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/06/will-nancy-hoffman-vote-to-fund-dgi.html

Sounds like the Lee Comer money and street are a joint Dawn Cheney / Nancy Hoffmann project; Linkfest

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/03/sounds-like-lee-comer-money-and-street.html

Lee Comer received taxpayer money

advocated by Zack Matheny, Dawn Chaney and Nancy Hoffmann

to unfairly compete with other businesses downtown

with other businesses downtown's tax money,

and the News and Record thought it was great 

to see crooked politicians hook up their friends

to steal business from the unconnected 

How Nancy Hoffmann, Dawn Cheney and the Isaccson's give everyone else's money to their friends, while stiffing East Greensboro

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-nancy-vaughan-and-zack-matheny-give.html
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City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann signs authorization for tenant to receive taxpayer money she voted for

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/per-dgis-jason-cannon-city-councilwoman.html
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Zack Matheny and Nancy Hoffmann "Are NOT Prostitutes … They Are Pimps"; An Adaptation

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/11/zack-matheny-and-nancy-hoffmann-are-not.html

News and Record Letter to the Editor on Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-news-and-record-letter-to-editor.html
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"No taxpayer money was spent on my behalf for the 302/304 South Elm building." - Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/no-taxpayer-money-was-spent-on-my.html

Nancy Hoffman's campaign contribution connections to Tuesday's Give Away to Greensboro's 1%

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/nancy-hoffmans-campaign-contribution.html

How Greensboro works, Nancy Hoffman edition

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-greensboro-works-nancy-hoffman.html

From a thread at Greater Greensboro Politics on Nancy Hoffman's Crony Capitalism and Self Dealing

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-thread-at-greater-greensboro.html

Budd and Nick, Wheelers And Dealers

As first reported by Ben Holder, $200,000 has been stolen by the Greensboro Parking Group, a company with no business license and apparently no one plans to do anything about it, I assume because the owners of the company are closely connected to Greensboro City Council through Councilwoman Nancy Hoffman who is a partner in  South End Partners LLC, a joint venture between herself, Nick Piornack and Jim Budd.

Some of James Budd's and Nick Piornack's former partners include  Leigh Benoliel, Clark East and Blaine East of LandCoreGroup formerly Landcore Commercial Realestate LLC. in Raleigh, NC.  One of their companies, Camel Saddle Properties LLC, whose partners include Lucas M Andrew and Bobby Allen Branch of Sanford, North Carolina is currently listed as under review by the North Carolina Secretary of State.

Mr Budd and Blaine East were also partners in several other failed ventures including Landcore Entertainment in Raleigh, WILMINGTON COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PARTNERS, LLC located at 106 Barnhardt St. in Greensboro and Fairway Village Partners, LLC, a shopping center in Pinehurst with it's office listed as 106 Barnhardt St. in Greensboro,

Mr East also ran the failed Davis Drive Village Partners, LLC, an Apex, North Carolina project from the same Greensboro address where Nick Piornack is said to run The WORX Restaurant. Sure must be crowded in there. As a matter of fact, the number of so called businesses and partners that have gone in and out through the Barnhardt Street location over the course of the last few years has been staggering to say the least. Fact is: I haven't even scratched the surface in this little blog post.

Did no one see it coming? From the Business Journal, Jul 19, 2010:

"Now buyers are moving closer to purchasing Rhyne’s buildings.

Nick Piornack, managing partner for Momentum Development Partners in Raleigh, said his company plans to buy the 109-111 W. Lewis St. and the 532-536 Elm St. properties from Rhyne by a target date of Aug. 17. Momentum plans to open two restaurants in the Lewis Street building and one in the Elm Street location.

Piornack said the purchase has been delayed due to issues related to keeping tenants lined up and raising equity, but “we hope to pull this off within the next 30 days.”

Like I wrote before, robbing Peter to pay Paul is how these guys do business. They don't have money to invest, they simply move money from one victim to the next.

What I find most interesting of all is the fact that their new partner, Nancy Hoffman, a full time professional recruiter working for for Reffett Associates, who seeks out top level management employees for Fortune 500 companies, never saw through the facade. Nancy Hoffman managed to find herself a partner with men with criminal histories, strings of failed business ventures and almost a $Million in law suits hanging over their heads-- how? Perhaps Greensboro City Councilwoman Hoffman never wanted to see through the facade?

And here's a question for you: Why is Nick's wife, Marian Carol Piornack's removal from the loan Guaranty List   a condition of modifying the contract after the money was paid out by the City of Greensboro? Is Carol fed up with Nick's wheeling and dealing? Protecting herself from his scams?

My thanks to Ben Holder for bringing more attention to the scam I saw coming over 1 year ago. Ben Holder has done this city a great favor. Greensboro is watching you Jim Budd, there's no place you can hide.

Neighborhood Watch Said

An anonmoyous commenter calling herself Neighborhood Watch with a Blogger profile created June 14, 2014 has challenged the accuracy of two of my posts concerning Greensboro City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffman and her business partners James R Budd and Nick Joseph Piornack.

In the comments to my post Mayor Vaughan Still Suffers From Perkins Syndrome she wrote:

"Why not report how the city's malfunctioning sewer shut down the business for two weeks. Report that that the weather didnt cooperate. The railroad decided to shut downthe street to repair a track for the first time in 30 years.. Report that this improvement benefited everyone on the southside because of lack of parking. Report that sometimes it is nice to see the city give someone out of the normal good ole boy network a chance in this city. Report the whole story not the hole story my friend."

I replied:

"What in the hell are you talking about?"

Yes, I can be rather short sometimes. I don't live downtown and I don't keep up with train schedules. Apparently Hoffman and her partners didn't either. As for the sewer system? I've been warning Greensboro residents for over 20 years that downtown Greensboro's antique sewer system is in dire need of repairs and cannot handle the ever increasing loads being placed on it by increased downtown construction-- especially big users like restaurants and hotels. It's just that when people use events I've long said would happen as excuses it pisses me off. It's like the time when your Daddy told you not to drive the car because it was overheating but you wouldn't listen, drove it anyway and turned a $200 radiator repair into a $2,000 engine repair. It wasn't your Daddy's fault.

And in my story, Momentum Partners James R Budd, Nick Joseph Piornack And Nancy Hoffmann: It's Time To Come Clean Or Run Like Hell! she commented:

"Again you have only part of the story. I would point you in the right direction, however you like the Msnm only report the partial facts. you will not be satisfied until you destroy everything good to kill one snake. "

She's right that I have only part of the story. As a matter of fact: in the very article she commented on I urged Nancy Hoffman, Jim Budd and Nick Piornack to:

"It's time he, Mr Piornack and Councilwoman Hoffmann came out of hiding, took reporters' telephone calls and started answering questions: Pronto!"

Could I be any clearer than that? As I replied to Neighborhood Watch whoever she might be:

"Please try me instead of hiding behind what you think I might do. Or just go away and prove me right-- your call.

The comment feature allows hyperlinks just like the main portion of the blog, you can link to evidence, photographs, documents, newspaper articles, etc...

The fact that you choose not to do so only strengthens my case.

Again-- your call."

I'm betting the most we ever get out of Ms Neighborhood Watch is more bitching but for once I'd like to be proven wrong as I'm still holding what I believe to be the trump card.

Prove me wrong, Ms Neighborhood Watch, prove me wrong. Greensboro developer Marty Kotis and Councilman Tony Wilkins both proved me wrong by presenting evidence to the contrary and now I'm among their biggest supporters. We don't always agree but I support them still. Are you man enough or woman enough to present the evidence and prove me wrong or will you simply do like most and simply hurl accusations at me?

And Tony and Marty never hid behind anonymity, why do you?

 Update: Sunday, June 8, 2014 On my post Momentum Partners James R Budd, Nick Joseph Piornack And Nancy Hoffmann: It's Time To Come Clean Or Run Like Hell! Neighborhood Watch returned to say:

"A hyperlink will not tell the whole story. I know that doesn't matter to you or the msm. You are the worst kind. Scream bloody murder just like a witch trial."

I calmly and rightly replied:

"As I predicted, you prefer to hurl insults rather than tell "your side of the story. The invitation has been cast,  it remains your call.

My e-mail address and a link to my Facebook page are at the top of the page, commenting here is open to anyone. You can only make yourself look worse by staying in the dark hurling insults.

It appears you are the one screaming bloody murder but pointing at no one but yourself as the perpetrator.

You dug this hole, now dig yourself out."

What's wrong with the truth? Why hide behind accusing me of not being willing to allow both sides of the story to be told when I'm making every effort humanly possible to give this person the chance to tell her side of the story? Why haven't Nancy Hoffman and her business partners James R Budd and Nick Joseph Piornack gone public if everything they've done is within the law?

Questions on the Kotis real estate deal etc...

Who else was the property offered to at a low price
without most knowing about the offer?

Who had the ability to offer the property at a steal
with Jim Westmoreland's okay?

Who else knew about the under the table give away
of taxpayer owned property?



Who was with Zack Matheny the night he got caught 
in the parking lot, 
relative to who just got nominated to be on DGI's board?

Was there pay to play in the Andy Zimmerman Lotus property deal?

Did someone get the shaft, 

with the okay of Nancy Vaughan and Zack Matheny

to benefit Andy at the expense of Piornack?

What did Zimmerman's deal have to do with Spice Cantina
and Nancy Hoffmann?

Isn't Piornack heavy in the Revolution Mills 

taxpayer funded give away for it and Natty Greene's

with another couple million thrown in for the Phillips Avenue project?

Did Don hire a PI to follow Nancy?

What does Costa Rica have to do with it?

Who screwed Roy Carroll, Robbie Perkins and Nathan Duggins

among others out of the Kotis real estate deal?

What does Say Yes to Education have to do with it?

Was the Kotis real estate deal a payoff

for help in last year's redistricting fight

and election results?

Did Mary get paid off with a slush job
to keep her mouth shut?

Would a prepared food tax to pay for the STPAC shortfalls
be regressive?

If City Council passes a regressive tax 

to pay for discretionary spending for STPAC as the economy tanks, 

poorer citizens in Greensboro will pay for for STPAC shortfalls

instead of our wealthy patrons etc...

who won't have to pay as much because it's a sales tax 

as opposed to an income tax or increased property tax

to pay for STPAC shortfalls for Greensboro's 1%?

"'Regressive Tax'

A tax that takes a larger percentage from low-income people
than from high-income people.

A tax that takes a larger percentage of the income
of low-income people than of high-income people.

...it hits lower-income individuals harder.

Sales taxes...are generally considered to be regressive
...because expenses for food, clothing and shelter
tend to make up a higher percentage
of a lower income consumer's overall budget.

If City Council proposes a prepared food tax

to make up for STPAC shortfalls,

they will have stolen from our community's poorest

to provide the wants of our most wealthy

...even though the tax may be uniform (such as 7% sales tax),
lower income consumers are more affected by it
because they are less able to afford it.

Are the Spice Cantina folks paying on the loan

provided by Greensboro's taxpayers,

as Nick Piornack got his on the Revolution Mills incentives?

...a regressive tax imposes a greater burden (relative to resources)
on the poor than on the rich
— there is an inverse relationship between the tax rate
and the taxpayer's ability to pay
as measured by assets, consumption, or income.

Did Nick Piornack 

receive a commission for the Revolution Mills 

incentive grants?

Regressive taxes tend to reduce the tax incidence
of people with higher ability-to-pay,
as they shift the incidence disproportionately to those
with lower ability-to-pay.

'Regressive Tax'"

Is Jim Westmoreland a TREBIC pawn?

Who was with Zack Matheny the night he got arrested
other than John Lomax and Sam Simpson
who just banked it on Megasite real estate commissions?

Didn't John Lomax just get re-appointed to DGI's board
by Nancy Vaughan?

Why is Nancy living with her mother?



I remember hearing this song at a Pizza Hut before being sent away to boarding school by my parents, who didn't understand how many times I listened to it on our Magnavox record cabinet in our basement.

Coldest winter of my life.

Things Are Getting Really Nasty For Nancy Hoffman's Business Partners

Earlier today Roch Smith jr wrote:

 "As The Troublemaker documented, the company, Greensboro Parking Group, LLC,  missed deadlines, became delinquent on their property taxes, had the original contract with the city extended four months after it expired and missed milestones that were to be met before the public funds were given to them. The city gave them the full $200,000 anyway, before the milestones were met—some of it even after the contract extension expired."

I highly recommend you read all of Roch's post as it only gets better... Or worse if your names happen to be Nancy Hoffmann, Nick Piornack or Jim Budd.

Note: Before another stupid, anonymous coward commenter points it out again: Nancy Hoffman partnered with Budd and Piornack to form South End Partners LLC, not Momentum nor Greensboro Parking Group or any of the long list of other fraudulent and/or failed business ventures Misters Budd and Piornack have started to date.

In recent days anonymous commenters have been going about a damage control program seeking to discount entire bodies of work based on simple mistakes. As I have written before: there may well be mistakes in the reporting of what has happened but the actions of Nancy Hoffmann, Nick Piornack or Jim Budd are very much deliberate and represent a long pattern of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

One commenter using the pseudonym Neighborhood Watch accused me of only telling one side of the story but when I offered to allow Neighborhood Watch the chance to tell both sides of the story all I got was insults and more lies.

Then along came another anonymous commenter using the initials, RP whose Modus operandi is to find one mistake, demand a correction and declare the entire body of work to be incorrect. Why if I didn't know better I'd swear RP is Ed Cone. Well here's a little redneck analogy for you RP: If your car has 8 spark plugs and 1 spark plug is fouled the car will still get you to where you want to go. Not as fast, not as efficiently and not as smoothly but it will get you there.

Coming to any blog post and discounting what you read there without following through on the hyperlinks to see the evidence presented is tantamount to driving while blind-- even with 8 good spark plugs you still won't get there-- ever.

Of course, commenters like RP, Neighborhood Watch and the other anonymous cowards attempting to spin this story already know this but they are hoping you don't. They're hoping you'll read their comments without following through the links and be convinced by their words alone, sans any evidence. So with that said I take you to 2 posts by Dang. The first is where James Budd bullied then city employee Jamal Fox, now City Councilman Jamal Fox.

And the second is filled with e-mails showing the special treatment given the Greensboro Parking Group by the City of Greensboro. Now how many strings to you think Nancy Hoffmann pulled to make all that take place?

Seems RP, Neighborhood Watch and the rest had best crawl back into their holes. The #1 sign that something corrupt is going on: City Council isn't talking about it. They've all clammed up. Happens every time until the media pushes the issue.

Greensboro City Market Signs Illegal Contract

Remember our old friend, downtown developer and con artist, Jim Budd? Well it looks as if the Buddman is at it once again. This time he entered into a contract with Downtown Greensboro Inc and the City of Greensboro for an event called City Market using the corporate name Zazz Hospitality Group. Problem is: According to the North Carolina Secretary of State there is no such legal entity as the Zazz Hospitality Group nor has there ever been.

Leaving one to wonder of the possible involvement of Jim's business partners Greensboro City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann and Nick Piornack.

Of course I could be wrong entirely. You see, I found the contract by doing a Google search for the search terms "Zazz Hospitality Group" So I checked the other companies listed on the contract:

Running With Horses Llc belongs to a Mr Julian N Loflin of Greensboro.

Momentum Development Partners, Llc belongs to Nick and Budd.

So how do I know Nick and Budd own Zazz? Because they told the News & Record they do:

"Recently, Jim Budd and Nick Piornack, Zazz Hospitality Group and Momentum Development renovated a mill on Barnhardt Street and opened The Worx, a restaurant which provides “classic, comfort, and cheer.” (Be sure to try the signature Barnhardt burger when you go.)

Next, Zazz Hospitality Group will open Spice Cantina, offering a fresh, authentic and fun vibe 
and generous patio for
specialty drinks and 
dining, next door to 
The Worx."

Another on the long list of the City of Greensboro helping crooks to get out of paying their state and federal taxes.Can a city be charged with aiding and abetting or just city employees?

Oh, and while we're at it let's give thanks to Jim's lifelong friend Rebecca Hannah for putting Jim back on our Radar here at EzGreensboro.com. There's nothing better than old friends to dredge up shit you don't want anyone else to know.

Sarah Palin slams Greensboro for 'crony capitalism' deals

"Sarah Palin criticized Greensboro on Friday for a deal City Council struck with Natty Greene’s Brewery for a $387,500 incentive, condemning it as "crony capitalism."

Greensboro City Council unanimously signed off on the deal

which included Tony Wilkins

who won't ask a cogent question about Greensboro's subsidization of Say Yes

In an op-ed for the Young Conservatives website, Palin wrote that Republicans oppose the kind of government deal making mayor Nancy Vaughan made with the company, joining in with a chorus of conservatives who have said it violates free market principles.

Andy Zimmerman anyone?

"Foundational to our exceptional nation’s sacred private property rights, a business must have freedom to locate where it wishes," wrote Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. "In a free market, if a business makes a mistake, threatening to move elsewhere claiming efficiency’s sake, then the market’s invisible hand punishes."

"Thankfully, that same hand rewards, based on good business decisions," she continued. "But this time-tested truth assumes we’re operating on a level playing field. When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent."

Greensboro's City Council also approved a $1 million incentives package

for Revolution Mill owner Self-Help Ventures Fund

tied to Councilmember Nancy Hoffmann's business partner 

and DGI board member Nick Piornack, 

who Hoffmann voted $200,000 for, which Piornack's company defaulted on

without the News and Record informing the public of

The deal included tax subsidies over 10 years to keep some of the jobs that were planned to be exported.

Palin wrote that the "illogical precedent" leads to special interests manipulating markets.

Roy Carroll, Republican parasite

who doesn't give a shit how much he can take taxpayers for

Marty Kotis, Republican buyer of City property 

for pennies on the dollar in unannounced auctions

and skimmer of tax breaks for a Sheetz next to a government funded highway,

and a sweet $600,000 to design a bike path from all the City Council members he funded

"Republicans oppose this, remember?" she wrote. "Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail."

She continued, adding that the "picking and choosing" which companies receive "corporate welfare" is roiled by fiscal conservatives and is a "hallmark of corruption" and "socialism."

"A $20 trillion debt-ridden country can’t afford this sinfully stupid practice, so vigilantly guard against its continuance, or we’re doomed," she said, adding, "However well meaning, burdensome federal government imposition is never the solution. Never. Not in our homes, not in our schools, not in churches, not in businesses."

"But know that fundamentally, political intrusion using a stick or carrot to bribe or force one individual business to do what politicians insist, versus establishing policy incentivizing our ENTIRE ethical economic engine to roar back to life, isn’t the answer," she wrote, adding, "The lines strangle competition and really, really, dispiritingly screw with workers’ lives."...

http://www.businessinsider.com/palin-trump-carrier-deal-2016-12

Greensboro's taxpayers just voted for millions

to be redistributed to our community's oligarchy

and most don't know, as the News and Record propaganda made it look great

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan; "If I Could Be Just Completely Honest For A Second, I Believe Exactly What You Believe"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/greensboro-mayor-nancy-vaughan-if-i.html

Matheny. Lomax, Hammer, Barber and Vaughan; Greensboro is Corrupt; An Adaptation as our press has been compromised

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/07/greensboro-is-corrupt-adaptation-as-our.html

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan doesn't know she's incompetent

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/greensboro-mayor-nancy-vaughan-doesnt.html

Questions on the Kotis real estate deal etc...

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/questions-on-kotis-real-estate-deal-etc.html

The following censorship instructions issued to local media organizations, has been leaked, distributed and adapted online.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-following-censorship-instructions.html

Same Crony Capitalism, Different Year, Still Zack Matheny, Nancy Vaughan and Nancy Hoffmann's friends and contributors

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/03/same-crony-capitalism-different-year.html

Sounds like the Lee Comer money and street are a joint Dawn Cheney / Nancy Hoffmann project; Linkfest

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/03/sounds-like-lee-comer-money-and-street.html

Today's News and Record Letter to the Editor on Nancy Hoffmann, and a Hoffmann Linkfest

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-news-and-record-letter-to-editor.html

DGI $ and favoritism for Nancy Hoffmann's on Elm Street with DGI money she voted herself via her incoming tenents

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/dgi-and-favoritism-for-nancy-hoffmanns.html

From a thread at Greater Greensboro Politics on Nancy Hoffman's Crony Capitalism and Self Dealing

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-thread-at-greater-greensboro.html

How Greensboro works, Nancy Hoffman edition

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-greensboro-works-nancy-hoffman.html

City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann signs authorization for tenant to recieve taxpayer money she voted for

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/per-dgis-jason-cannon-city-councilwoman.html

"Key downtown property owners [who have received a great deal of Greensboro taxpayer money] back DGI for contract" [for their lobbyist, Zack Matheny]

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/key-downtown-property-owners-who-have.html

Pay to Play; Revolution Mill Business Development Manager Nick Piornack's unreported Jamal Fox Campaign Contribution

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/12/pay-to-play-revolution-mill-business.html

Guess who owns Jamal Fox? Crony Capitalists in Greensboro Edition

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/guess-who-owns-jamal-fox-crony.html

Jamal Fox misleads Guilford County Board of Elections and Greensboro's African American Community

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/07/jamal-fox-misleads-guilford-county.html

Marty Kotis angling for more city of Greensboro money, using taxpayer funded Zack Matheny as his lobbyist; "City might help"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/10/marty-kotis-angling-for-more-city-of.html

So If Zack Didn't Do It, Who Did?

In case you haven't figured it out I'm not a journalist. I've never claimed to be. My specialty is literary Tyrannicide. Problem is: I'm restricted to using a scatter gun so everyone in the vicinity of the tyrant gets hit too. My advice would be to stand clear of tyrants at all times.

You may have also noticed that unlike journalists I ask my questions in public view whereas journalists ask questions privately then tell you what journalists think you need to know. My way is messy, it angers people, it embarrasses folks, makes enemies and eventually leads to finding out the truth... sometimes.

But then my goal isn't to tell you what the truth is, my goal is to help you find the truth along with me.

And yes there will be mistakes.

In beginning this series with  Recapping The Zack Methany, Jason Cannon, DGI Story. I made a big mistake in assuming that Zack Methany was the source of Jason's Cannon's resume-- the resume in which Jason lied about his master's degree and eventually lost his job as president of DGI only to be replaced by Zack. Not that it couldn't have been Zack but we've simply no proof... yet.

In the previous post in this series, My Apologies To Eric Robert I also pointed out that Mayor Vaughan might not have been responsible for leaking the resume either. I mean, she looks pretty guilty according to The Zack Methany Texts and the e-mail exposed in The Grasshopper Sez wasn't good for her reputation but there still isn't proof that she or Zack were responsible.

So who else was involved in hiring Zack Methany? That would be the DGI Board of Directors.

According to DGI's website their 2015 board of Directors was made up of the following people:

Gary Brame – Chair Jules Antique and Fine Arts DGI Executive Committee
Dawn S. Chaney Chaney Properties DGI Executive Committee
Derek Ellington Bank of America DGI Executive Committee
Mark Hewett Area Modern Home and Lighting
Mark Gibb Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Co.
Paula Pierce Downtown Resident
Thomas Philion ArtsGreensboro
Nick Piornack Momentum Development
Marsh Prause Allman Spry Davis Leggett & Crumpler, P.A.
Mark Prince Guilford Merchants Association DGI Executive Committee
Tim Sexton – Chair Elect / Treasurer Lincoln Financial Group DGI Executive Committee
James N. “Smitty” Smith DADS Enterprise
Paul Talley Lotus Club
Brian Wise The Carroll Companies
Jeff Yetter Iron Hill Investments, Inc.
Rob Youth Connective Mortgage Advisory Company, a division of United Guaranty Corporation
Dianne Ziegler – Secretary Greensboro Downtown Residents’ Association
Andy Zimmerman AZ Development, LLC
Marty Lawing Guilford County Manager
Jeff Phillips Guilford County Commissioner
Nancy Vaughan Mayor of Greensboro DGI Executive Committee
Jim Westmoreland Greensboro City Manager DGI Executive Committee


So assuming that Zack Matheny and Nancy Barakat Vaughan did not give Jason Cannon's resume to Eric Robert then it must be safe to assume that someone else on DGI's board of directors wanted to replace Jason Cannon with Zack Methany. Who might that someone be and does he or she represent one of Greensboro's biggest employers like say Lincoln Financial Group, The Carroll Companies or United Guaranty Corporation? Or could it have been  Guilford County Manager Marty Lawing, County Commissioner Jeff Phillips or even Derek Ellington of Bank of America? Could it have been Nick Piornack who is a business partner with City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann?

By keeping this covered up Mayor Vaughan, Zack Methany and the Board of Directors of Downtown Greensboro are casting aspersions on every member of the DGI board and all the corporations and institutions they represent. Were the Greensboro Downtown Residents’ Association or ArtsGreensboro responsible? Gibb’s Hundred Brewing or Iron Hill Investments, Inc? Maybe Andy Zimmerman did it?

I wonder how downtown resident  Paula Pierce feels about being picked out of the blue to be put into a den of thieves? I think I'd be pretty damned pissed if I were she. I mean, successful Federal employee, retired in 2007, moved to Greensboro in 2008... Hey, what a great way to attract new residents to our city center. You blew it DGI! She owns a freaking condo, she doesn't need this shit!

I can't make people tell the truth. That's not among my superpowers. So it comes down to this: there's truth and then there's swords to fall on. Which is it going to be? May the e-mails and telephone calls begin.

Who knows, maybe they'll finally let me have a sniper rifle instead of this scatter gun.

Pay to Play; Revolution Mill Business Development Manager Nick Piornack's unreported Jamal Fox Campaign Contribution

http://candidatereports.myguilford.com/files/1676_FOX_JAMAL.pdf
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"Natty Greene’s poised to move to Revolution Mill

Natty Greene’s co-owner Kayne Fisher has previously said that the company will soon outgrow its production facility...

Fisher could not be reached for comment. Revolution Mill Business Development Manager Nick Piornack couldn’t be immediately reached for comment Thursday. But it appears that if city council approves both grants this upcoming Tuesday, Natty Greene’s is here to stay.

Councilman Jamal Fox, who represents the district where Revolution Mill is located, said he is confident that the resolutions will pass."


http://triad-city-beat.com/natty-greenes-poised-to-move-to-revolution-mill/
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Greensboro's news outlets are worthless.
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Andy Zimmerman's Jamal Fox contribution;

http://candidatereports.myguilford.com/files/1703_FOX_JAMAL.PDF

Nancy Vaughan Could And Should Do More

In today's News & Record, George Hartzman writes:

"Mayor Nancy Vaughan has asked Greensboro’s City Council to adopt more transparent ethics disclosures for some very good reasons.

For example, at the Dec. 17 City Council meeting, Nancy Hoffmann nominated her business partner, Nick Piornack, to Downtown Greensboro Inc.’s board, after voting to loan Piornack’s firm $200,000 for a parking lot that created spots where patrons of her three recently purchased buildings will likely park for a fee.

Hoffmann also nominated the architect for her now-taxpayer-subsidized project at 304 S. Elm via a DGI grant, which city taxpayers funded via a Hoffmann City Council vote. The interior designer for the same property now serves on the Minimum Housing Standards Commission.

If council members place citizens who do business with them on city boards, they should disclose the connections. Members should disclose financial interests in businesses and nonprofits, as well as organizations they are involved with that may become reliant on City Council votes bequeathing everyone else’s money.

Even though participation would be voluntary, identifying and following the actions of those who choose not to provide sunlight on their financial dealings should be enlightening."

Problem is: Mauor Vaughan's new disclosure rules won's stop Councilwoman Hoffman from lying or force her to disclose her associations. Case in point: Council members are already required to disclose all property they own to the City staff and voters but back in 2012 when I pointed out that Nancy Hoffmann had intentionally hidden her purchase of  304 S. Elm, the same building Mr Hartzman writes of in his letter to the editor, Greensboro City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann faced zero consequences.

On November 16, 2012, Greensboro City Attorney S Mhjeeb Shah-Khan wrote a letter (PDF) to the City Council defending Councilwoman Hoffman of my charges. Time has proven the city attorney to be wrong-- again.

You see, I spoke on the telephone with Frayda Bluestein of the North Carolina School of Government back in December of 2012 when I penned The Plight Of Local Governance and it was with tears in my eyes that I wrote:

"Recently I wrote of my concerns that Council members Zack Matheney and Nancy Hoffman had not filed their property disclosure forms as is required by Greensboro City Law only to find out from the Greensboro City Attorney that property disclosures are not required by Greensboro City Law. Well, they are required but they're not required.

You see, there is no penalty, no loss of voting privileges, no fines, no fees, no nothing that can be done to a council person who breaks any council rule imposed by City Council.

I didn't believe it either. I thought the City Attorney was playing me for a dumb redneck so I contacted the North Carolina School of Government to find out. The NC School of Government agreed. When they returned my call yesterday just minutes before I rushed out to get an early place in line at last night's Greensboro City Council meeting, the experts from the SOG explained to me that while all local governments in North Carolina have the right to pass laws regulating their own conduct, none have authority to establish or impose penalties upon members of their  own boards.

Sadly, this is why it is impossible for the Greensboro City Council to police itself and any effort to impose self-regulation no matter how well intentioned, is merely a farce. This is why the rich will always control our local governments. This is why the poor will always suffer at their hands."

Nancy Baracat Vaughan can and should do better. Instead of wasting Council's and staff time drafting and passing feel good resolutions that will not be obeyed and have no means of enforcement, Mayor Vaughan should be asking the Greensboro City Council to pass a resolution to lobby the North Carolina House and Senate to enact laws with teeth-- laws that can and will be enforced.

But Nancy Baracat Vaughan, who first ran for city council on a platform of ending local corruption only wants to put up more smoke and mirrors-- why?

If you can't do something the right way then don't do it at all.

Sounds like the Lee Comer money and street are a joint Dawn Cheney / Nancy Hoffmann project; Linkfest

How Nancy Hoffmann, Dawn Cheney and the Isaccson's 

give everyone else's money to their friends, while stiffing East Greensboro

Dawn Chaney
Executive committee for The Greensboro Landlord Association
former DGI Chair, and current executive board member past her term limit
RUCO taskforce
Post RUCO study committee
Chair; Greensboro's Redevelopment Commission
Committee to fix DGI, with Zack Matheny and Nancy Vaughan.
Greensboro Downtown Economic Development Strategy Project Committee, Community Stakeholders and Advisory Group
Dawn Chaney contributed to Don Vaughan's campaign fund in 2010.
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City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann signs authorization for tenant to recieve taxpayer money she voted for

Nancy Hoffmann consented to allowing a tenant to apply for a retail grant for her Elm Street building for electrical work, frame and sheet rock, plumbing, a front window display and a retail sales counter.

Councilwoman Hoffman denied the application existed at Natty Greene's last Thursday evening in front of David Brantly Craft on the second floor.

Mrs. Hoffmann voted for DGI's budget allocation at Council's last meeting, as well as the year before, and now she appears to be self dealing via her new tenant while publicly denying the existence of the pending transaction involving taxpayer monies which voted for to benefit herself.

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/per-dgis-jason-cannon-city-councilwoman.html

"...at the Dec. 17 City Council meeting, Nancy Hoffmann nominated her business partner, Nick Piornack, to Downtown Greensboro Inc.’s board, after voting to loan Piornack’s firm $200,000 for a parking lot that created spots where patrons of her three recently purchased buildings will likely park for a fee.

Hoffmann also nominated the architect for her now-taxpayer-subsidized project at 304 S. Elm via a DGI grant, which city taxpayers funded via a Hoffmann City Council vote. The interior designer for the same property now serves on the Minimum Housing Standards Commission.

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-news-and-record-letter-to-editor.html
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Will Nancy Hoffman vote to fund DGI this evening, after her "final submission" to be DGI's landlord?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/06/will-nancy-hoffman-vote-to-fund-dgi.html

On Nancy Hoffmann's DGI Self Dealing and Conflict of Interest

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/on-nancy-hoffmanns-dgi-self-dealing-and.html

"No taxpayer money was spent on my behalf for the 302/304 South Elm building." - Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/no-taxpayer-money-was-spent-on-my.html

Developer Can’t Pave Over Holes in City Loan Contract

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/04/developer-cant-pave-over-holes-in-city.html

Nancy Hoffman's campaign contribution connections to Tuesday's Give Away to Greensboro's 1%

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/nancy-hoffmans-campaign-contribution.html

Should Nancy Hoffmann now be excused from City Council votes concerning DGI?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/should-nancy-hoffmann-now-be-excused.html

01/05/2014; News and Record Letter to the Editor on Nancy Hoffmann, and a Hoffmann Linkfest

"Mayor Nancy Vaughan has asked Greensboro’s City Council to adopt more transparent ethics disclosures for some very good reasons.

For example, at the Dec. 17 City Council meeting, Nancy Hoffmann nominated her business partner, Nick Piornack, to Downtown Greensboro Inc.’s board, after voting to loan Piornack’s firm $200,000 for a parking lot that created spots where patrons of her three recently purchased buildings will likely park for a fee.

Hoffmann also nominated the architect for her now-taxpayer-subsidized project at 304 S. Elm via a DGI grant, which city taxpayers funded via a Hoffmann City Council vote. The interior designer for the same property now serves on the Minimum Housing Standards Commission.

If council members place citizens who do business with them on city boards, they should disclose the connections. Members should disclose financial interests in businesses and nonprofits, as well as organizations they are involved with that may become reliant on City Council votes bequeathing everyone else’s money.

Even though participation would be voluntary, identifying and following the actions of those who choose not to provide sunlight on their financial dealings should be enlightening."

George Hartzman

http://www.news-record.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_dd11f490-740a-11e3-901a-001a4bcf6878.html#.UsjwasvWoGw.twitter

By the way, it is my understanding that Robbie Perkins was the real estate broker on the purchase of the land for the parking lot.
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From a thread at Greater Greensboro Politics on Nancy Hoffmann's Crony Capitalism and Self Dealing

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-thread-at-greater-greensboro.html

Proposed legal theft of taxpayer money; "developers want $8 million in taxpayer money from City of Greensboro"

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/11/proposed-legal-theft-of-taxpayer-money.html

Zack Matheny and Nancy Hoffmann "Are NOT Prostitutes … They Are Pimps"; An Adaptation

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/11/zack-matheny-and-nancy-hoffmann-are-not.html

How to purchase a Simkins PAC endorsement, by Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-to-purchase-simkins-pac-endorsement.html

From the 2010 Greensboro funded study for the Elm Street Center hotel, of which the Rhino can't seem to investigate

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/12/from-2010-greensboro-funded-study-for.html

DGI $ and favoritism for Nancy Hoffmann's on Elm Street with DGI money she voted herself via her incoming tenents

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/dgi-and-favoritism-for-nancy-hoffmanns.html

Legal Theft, by Whoever Votes for Greensboro's City Council Agenda Item 34

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/11/legal-theft-by-whoever-votes-for.html

City Council Agenda Item 11; Investment Grant for a hotel and parking garage for the Elm Street Center Hotel, LLC.

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/11/city-council-agenda-item-11-investment.html

Nancy Hoffman's perfectly legal contributions from GPAC task force members, as confirmed by city attorney S. Mujeeb Shah-Khan

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/nancy-hoffmans-perfectly-legal.html

Nancy Hoffman's campaign contribution connections to Tuesday's Give Away to Greensboro's 1%

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/nancy-hoffmans-campaign-contribution.html

Nancy and Nancy

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/nancy-and-nancy.html

Eric Robert on Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/eric-robert-on-nancy-hoffmann.html

Per DGI's Jason Cannon; City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann signs authorization for tenant to recieve taxpayer money she voted for

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/per-dgis-jason-cannon-city-councilwoman.html

How Greensboro works, Nancy Hoffman edition

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-greensboro-works-nancy-hoffman.html

Will Nancy Hoffman vote to fund DGI this evening, after her "final subission" to be DGI's landlord?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/06/will-nancy-hoffman-vote-to-fund-dgi.html

Ethical Responsibilities of the Governing Body of the City of Greensboro

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/04/ethical-responsibilities-of-governing.html

What I said last night

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-i-said-last-night.html

Why write in Billy Jones for Mayor of Greensboro?

Greensboro's communications/news/information dissemination industry is supposed to keep an eye on the government and its connected rent seekers for the people, but it doesn't, our local news outlets keep an an eye on the people for its bought and paid for elected government and its City executive cronies

Because the few who control most of the dissemination of most local political opinion, who enjoy relatively disproportionate levels of influence than the many who don’t, are encumbered with track records of being pretty wrong about multiples of issues over the years, while intentionally misrepresenting or omitting truth in the interests of a select few who have more influence than most others

Nancy Vaughan betrayed the trust of Greensboro's voters while the Greensboro News & Record knew of her issues and failed to inform the public before an election, as usual

Greensboro’s political and local opinion writers didn't see the gross corruption coming and going, as most of our elected leaders and city staff didn't know or didn't want to know, or that some knew in the run up to the 2017 election the performing arts center is going to be financially unsustainable, and did the deals anyway while keeping the truth from the public

Some who now share relatively high portions of blame left the same corrupt leadership in place while espousing how responsible 'they' have been to Greensboro's community to win an election

Nancy Hoffmann nominated her business partner, Nick Piornack, to Downtown Greensboro Inc.’s board, after voting to loan Piornack’s firm $200,000 for a parking lot that created spots where patrons of her three recently purchased buildings will likely park for a fee

Hoffmann also nominated the architect for her now-taxpayer-subsidized project at 304 S. Elm via a DGI grant, which city taxpayers funded via a Hoffmann City Council vote. The interior designer for the same property now serves on the Minimum Housing Standards Commission

Council members place citizens who do business with them on city boards, and don't disclose the connections

If Billy Jones were Mayor, Council Members would disclose financial interests in businesses and nonprofits, as well as organizations they are involved with that are reliant on City Council votes bequeathing everyone else’s money to themselves, and our press would be obligated to disclose how crooked our City is

This City Council allowed private businesses intensely involved in convincing City Council with words and money to build a $80 million plus performing arts center that Randall, Kathy and Roy can now profit from, and they voted again to have everyone else cough up more money to go directly into their pockets in parking decks

Write in Billy Jones because our press is a big, corrupted turd who let this stink happen

Nancy Hoffmann's Mid Year Campaign Finance Report; How much taxpayer money has she voted for...

John Lomax; $1,000

Kathy 'STPAC' Manning $1,000; Kathy's hubby Randall Kaplan just got a $30 million parking deck for his new hotel down the street from the performing arts center, thanks to the Nancys and friends

Jim Melvin

Skip Moore, who totally fucked up the Say Yes to Education program,
and misled Guilford County's youth and their parents with bullshit made up numbers
of how many kids could get college paid for

Donna Newton, who represents Greensboro's Community Foundation who, see Skip Moore,
but the Foundation was/is skimming off the top of scholarship monies with way high fees,
lining Walker Sanders' pockets along with the STPAC monies

Brooks Pierce's Reid Phillips; $1,000; Making sure he keeps the City's legal business, and motivating Nancy to keep Justin advocating for Brooks' clients without conflict of issue issues

Nick Piornack; $250; Who got Hoffmann's vote for millions for the Revolution Mills project from taxpayers after Piornack defaulted on a loan for his Lewis Street clusterfuck

Arthur Samet, $500 and another $1,700 from the family; Who got Nancy's vote for taxpayer funded developer give aways

Paul Saperstien; $250; Greensboro's taxpayer funded DC lobbyist

Desmond Sheridan; $500; Real Estate and developer attorney who lobbies for those who are interested in greasing the wheels of elected leaders for profit.

Barry Siegal; $1,000; who got money from the City and parking deck spots for downtown apartments which Nancy voted for

And Andy Zimmerman; $500, who has reaped millions from taxpayer coffers via Nancy Hoffmann

http://candidatereports.myguilford.com/files/2021_HOFFMANN%20NANCYMID2.PDF
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Nancy Hoffman's post election filing take from Roy Carroll via the Triad Good Government PAC

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/nancy-hoffmans-post-election-filing.html

Randall Kaplan's payoff for Nancy Hoffmann's votes for his hotel money and the Performing Arts Center

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/randall-kaplans-payoff-for-nancy.html

$15,600,000 more for Matt Brown and Greensboro's Coliseum on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 with some cheese for the Samets, who purchased themselves some votes for the project in 2015's City Council election

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/15600000-more-for-matt-brown-and.html

19. ID 16-0188 Resolution Approving Construction Contract with Samet Corporation/SRS, Inc. as the CMAR to Build the Coliseum Field House

JW CMAR Field House D League - 3-31-16.docx
ID 16-0188 Resolution Authorizing Samet.docx

https://greensboro.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx

The Greensboro City Council has already approved $1.2 million in loans as part of the shovel-ready site initiative. Developer Pete Goria and Samet Corp. plan to use loans of $600,000 each for projects in Greensboro.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/03/same-crony-capitalism-different-year.html

Remember Samet's $600,000 shovel ready loan advocated by Matheny
and the correlating campaign contributions?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/03/john-hammer-mayor-nancy-vaughan-had.html

How to purchase Mayor Nancy Vaughan for pennies and get a $5,482,424.00 City of Greensboro taxpayer funded project, by Samet Corporation

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-to-purchase-mayor-nancy-vaughan-for.html

Greensboro City Councilmember Nancy Hoffmann's Samet payoff for sliding $5,482,424.00 to Samet Corporation

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/greensboro-city-councilmember-nancy.html

"Greensboro approves bond for coliseum improvements, construction for new basketball team"; No mention of Samet contributions to Hoffmann and Vaughan

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/greensboro-approves-bond-for-coliseum.html

John 'Roy's Boy' Hammer; "Tanger Center To Move Dirt in April"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2017/03/john-roys-boy-hammer-tanger-center-to.html

Nancy Hoffmann's take from Andrew Brod's money made via the City of Greensboro

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/nancy-hoffmanns-take-from-andrew-brods.html

Greensboro's danger is the connected politicians, elites, and media pundits who enable, run and pilfer our city

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/greensboros-danger-is-connected.html

"Key downtown property owners [who have received a great deal of Greensboro taxpayer money] back DGI for contract" [for their lobbyist, Zack Matheny]

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/key-downtown-property-owners-who-have.html

Jeff Sykes; "Why are so many of us willing to accept mediocrity in our political leaders?"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/06/jeff-sykes-why-are-so-many-of-us.html

Nancy Hoffmann Attempts To Steal Downtown Building

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/08/nancy-hoffmann-attempts-to-steal.html

Two very different Nancy Hoffmann related articles on her downtown property which received taxpayer funds she voted for via DGI

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/08/two-very-different-nancy-hoffmann.html

John Hammer on Nancy Hoffmann

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/08/john-hammer-on-nancy-hoffmann.html

New City of Greensboro Give Away Program John Lomax and Sam Simpson knew about before the general public

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-city-of-greensboro-give-away.html

Yes Weekly, 11/16/2011; On John Lomax's "reimbursement" for $217,812

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/yes-weekly-11162011-on-john-lomaxs.html

Per DGI's Jason Cannon; City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann signs authorization for tenant to recieve taxpayer money she voted for

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/per-dgis-jason-cannon-city-councilwoman.html

From a thread at Greater Greensboro Politics on Nancy Hoffman's Crony Capitalism and Self Dealing

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-thread-at-greater-greensboro.html

DGI $ and favoritism for Nancy Hoffmann's on Elm Street with DGI money she voted herself via her incoming tenents

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/dgi-and-favoritism-for-nancy-hoffmanns.html

Today's News and Record Letter to the Editor on Nancy Hoffmann, and a Hoffmann Linkfest

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-news-and-record-letter-to-editor.html

Eric Robert on Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/eric-robert-on-nancy-hoffmann.html

On Nancy Hoffmann's DGI Self Dealing and Conflict of Interest

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/on-nancy-hoffmanns-dgi-self-dealing-and.html