Are the pieces of the puzzle surrounding the recent FBI raids in Jackson starting to fall into place? Out of state "investors" spoke to several Jackson City Council members about building a Convention Center hotel this year. WLBT reported last night:
Ward One Councilman Ashby Foote suspects the raids could be related to a meeting he had back in February with Owens and individuals he believed to be developers interested in building a convention center hotel. Foote says he walked away from that meeting underwhelmed, saying developers never tried to give him a “hard sell.”... Ward Five Councilman Vernon Hartley also met with Owens and individuals believed to be developers back in January. He initially jumped at the opportunity, because Owens told him the developers were interested in finding out about Ward 5...
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33 comments:
Jackson doesn't need a hotel. What Jackson needs is employees that do what they are paid to do. Simple things like cutting the grass, keeping trash cleaned up, swimming pools and libraries operational etc.....
Give it a few weeks and we'll all be singing I'm on a boat - I'm on a boat - take a good hard look 'cuz I'm sailin' on a boat!
My money's on the whole thing being part of some government insured loan that would allow the bogus developers to steal a bunch of money and leave an incomplete project.
What Jackson needs is a Katrina, not a convention center.
If only they were interested in investing in...wait for it...One Lake. ($2.3 Billion to construct).
Have we seen a set of financial statements on that convention center lately?
The silver lining....when SHTF and we're living in Mad Max world, me thinks us Jacksonians will hardly notice.
lets not forget Kingfish is the one who broke this story on the meeting with Foote and investors/feds
PLEASE PEOPLE. There never was a real development or real developers. This is all make believe as part of an FBI operation. Marked money was paid. This same marked money was found. What caused this undercover operation to take place? Was it the Richard's Garbage garbage? Somebody provided information to the FBI or other law enforcement agencies that probably put this all in motion just like in Tallahassee, Florida. May be the same "Developers" with that company FBI Developers Are Us LLC. Very soon a federal indictment will reveal details as they always do.
Don’t conventions typically book 2 to 3 years in advance?
Where are the potential conventions coming here to need a hotel?
Are the lights even still on at that place? If so, shut them off and spend the money to feed the zoo animals.
"So how does Jackson work?"
"How much time you got?"
Financial statements?
Has anyone seen a financial statement on anything related to the City lately?
It just gets curiouser and curiouser............
Judging by the timeline of events, they weren't Feds.
1:31 == bulls**t. Yes, I follow KF, and enjoy reading JJ. But the interview with Foote far from "broke this story"; the Foote connection was just one more piece of the puzzle (kinda as KF noted in the headline for this post).
There's a bunch more parts pieces than just the attempts to bribe Foote, Hartley, or any of the other members of the Council; hell, the story goes back for a couple of years with parts becoming evident months ago, and the biggest parts yet to be disclosed -- wait for the indictments and you will see that the one piece you suggest was 'breaking' the story being not even a corner, much less and edge piece of this giant jigsaw puzzle. But continuing the puzzle analogy, the cover picture on the box is going to be quite telling once it all comes out
June 7, 2024 at 1:45 PM
If marked money was used by the Feds why did they have two different meetings with two different councilmen? This doesn't make sense. Also the timeline of events makes no sense for them to be Feds. Why would the Feds claim to be working for a made up company only for the DA to then register that company week later?
You know what I think? I think some of you anonymous posters know what's going on if tangentially and are trying to throw people off the scent.
For those claiming Jody is working with the Feds can you make this chain of events make sense to me?
Events:
January 11, 2024 - Jody and Co meet with Vernon Hartley
February 29, 2024 - Jody and Co meet with Ashby Foote claiming to be working for Facilities Solutions Team LLC
March 19, 2024 - Jody Owens registers Facilities Solutions Team LLC with Secretary of State
May 22, 2024 - Jody Owens offices raided
Why oh why would the Feds meet with these officials and then raid who they're supposedly working with?
Trying to calculate the life expectancy of a white collar indictment of City of Jackson administration members or their associates/family/friends under the current DOJ, current VPOTUS Kamala Harris, current POTUS Joe "Pandering" Biden, with a Democratic Black Caucus Member Rep, six month before the embattled Biden's election.
Let's see: That life will end in 5.391 247 x 10-44 s. And that's a negative exponent.
Any FBI Investigation in this election year of the wrong people will be disposed of in Planck time. And that's way shorter than walk the plank time.
I don't care what the law or evidence is, it will be torpedoed by DOJ, the Dem appointed USAO, and Bennie faster than a wolfpack on a freighter off of Miami in 1942.
Agreed @ 12:52
Learn to swim
1:45 has it right, and I question the judgment and critical thinking skills of the lot of you. There was never any development.
I just want to wake up one morning and see a glaring headline that reads "FBI ARRESTS LUMUMBA".
Didn't the dark shades, ear pieces, and van across the street give them away?
Really looking forward to more info from the feds.
Hell hath no fury like a grifter who gets out grifted AKA unindicted co-conspirator #1.
Guess Jody will get to use all that criminal law experience once he's indicted. Oh wait! Despite being DA for over four years, he has ZERO criminal law experience! So sad.
3:15, So Joe Biden exerts so much control over the DOJ that he's allowing his only living son to be prosecuted on a gun charge?
Ashby, Do like the rest of us of your generation. Put your Jackson house up for sale, and move to Madison county. You are military trained, and you studied WW2, and Viet Nam, I admire your faithfulness, but as you know, there is a time to retreat.
The mayor's grift on the Richard's garbage contract was so transparent that even a Democrat-appointed U.S. Attorney couldn't ignore it for long. Bennie doesn't run everything in Jackson. It's the state capital, you know, and Republican legislators and congressmen have pull too.
"So Joe Biden exerts so much control over the DOJ that he's allowing his only living son to be prosecuted on a gun charge?
ME, ME...Call on me! Biden's Justice Department is not prosecuting the charge against the son.
Guess I’m slow. Gonna need you to spell it out for me, KF.
I don’t think the FBI would visit the Hinds County DA’s office and business for no reason, and apparently visited the Jackson Mayor’s office also. My vision for Mississippi’s Capital City…a a city run right, a city to be proud of. Politicians, from the governor down, seem to promise anything to get in office, the promote only the things that benefit them or their party. We’ll see where this goes with Hinds County leadership. Got a feeling it not going to be pretty.
Lil Choke requested FBI to investigate Harley and Foote, which undercover investigation was a fart in the wind. So, pissed off, FBI looked at Omari-Mayor files to see what evidence could justify wasting their time.
Stupid idea for a bust since onvention centers are costly, losing money pits across the country.
Post the audited financial statements.
No serious investor would touch that "Convention Center". Possibly a Socrates type would if there were City Loan Guarantees with prepaid fees.
6:43, So Lumumba was the whistleblower here, right.
He’s about as much a whistleblower as Phil Bryant, and maybe even less.
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