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Soles Mishandled Client Funds, State Bar Says Sheriff’s office Clash New sheriff’s office building tops commissioners’ wish list. Pack takes victory over uuSEE PAGE 3A Vikings in conference. uuSEE SPORTS 1B The News Reporter Founded 1890. Published every Tuesday and Friday for the County of Columbus and her people. WWW.NRCOLUMBUS.COM Friday, April 19, 2019 $1 LIGHT THE LAKE Commissioners plan to renovate historic county courthouse By Justin Smith plan will set off a domino effect of [email protected] relocating several county offices. Judges and the district attorney’s The Columbus County Board staff will be moved from their of Commissioners plans to reno- offices on Courthouse Square vate the historic county court- into the first floor of the historic house that has been empty since courthouse. The plan calls for its replacement opened in 2015. probation and parole, operating While not taking official action, out of leased offices in the Pro- a majority of fessional Build- commission- ing on Franklin ers reached The courthouse renovation Street, to move the agreement into the offices during their re- plan will set off a domino currently used treat Tuesday effect of relocating several by judges and at Lake Wac- the district at- camaw State county offices. torney’s office. Park. Commis- The board of sioners Ricky elections and Bullard and Buddy Byrd opposed housing offices, which are located the plan, which is expected to be in a building on U.S. 701 N. the finalized in a vote during an up- county leases from Whiteville coming commissioners’ meeting. City Schools, will move into the Staff photo by Grant Merritt “We’ve talked about it long Dempsey Herring Courthouse Jocelyn Morgan holds an electronic candle during Light the Lake Tuesday evening at Lake enough,” said County Manager Annex on Smith Street. As part Waccamaw. Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina coordinates the annual walk to raise Mike Stephens. “We should start of the plan, the courthouse annex awareness of child abuse and to promote prevention. moving on this.” The courthouse renovation uuSEE COURTHOUSE 9A Soles mishandled client funds, State Bar says By Jefferson Weaver funds involved. He is not allowed any money is missing, Soles said. sition onto “a law-abiding life,” in [email protected] to handle trust funds, settlements, “It’s just poor bookkeeping,” he 2009. Three men, all former clients, or any client funds until further said. “The money was never gone. accused him of taking advantage Tabor City attorney R.C. Soles notice, according to the order. That It was just in the wrong account. of them. Jr. has been prohibited from han- includes writing checks or making They say I mishandled it.” In August 2009, Soles shot a dling client funds after the State withdrawals from any account. Soles said he does not know former client, Kyle Blackburn, in Bar determined he had “mishan- Soles is providing the bar with when the order may be lifted. the leg as Blackburn allegedly at- dled” money coming into the office. all financial records from the “It will be whenever they (the tempted to break into Soles’ home. Soles, 84, is cooperating fully firm, including bank statements, state Bar) get finished,” he said. Blackburn, Jessica Nealy and B.J. with investigators, according to canceled checks, deposit slips, “They do things on their own Wright had reportedly gone to the bar. He has blamed the mis- credit card receipts and “any other schedule.” Soles’ home to ask him for money. takes on miscommunication with records relating to the receipt and Soles was the longest serving When Soles refused to answer BB&T over account numbers. disbursement of client and/or state senator in North Carolina the door, Wright began spinning “There was some unauthorized fiduciary funds,” according to the history, with more than 30 years wheels in Soles’ yard. The men access to the Soles Law Firm ac- consent order. in office as well as seven years then went back to the door, where count,” Soles said, “and the bank “I can practice law, and do busi- in the State House. He chose not they were met by Soles, who fired refunded all of that.” While that ness as usual,” Soles said, “but to run for reelection in 2010, and one shot in the air and told told account was frozen, Soles said, I cannot operate a trust fund or was succeeded by Dr. Bill Rabon them to leave. money was sent to other accounts. similar account.” of Southport. He was inducted Soles allegedly chased Black- A direct deposit into Soles’ person- Margaret Cloutier, senior depu- R.C. Soles into the Bar Association General burn and Wright around the drive- al account was supposed to go into ty counsel with the State Bar, said Practice Hall of Fame in 2006. way with a revolver, and Blackburn the firm’s trust account, Soles said. the consent order allows officials An attorney for 60 years, Soles was shot through the thigh. Soles “There was never a penny to freeze funds and prevent further Soles blamed the mistakes was indicted on four charges of said he was acting in self defense. missing,” he said. “It was just bad activity while an investigation aiding and abetting bribery as Soles was indicted for felony accounting. That’s all been taken takes place. on miscommunication with part of the ColCor investigation in assault with a deadly weapon, in- care of. Every single dime has been “For example, say you have an BB&T over account num- 1983. Three of those charges were flicting serious injury, in January accounted for.” attorney who does personal injury. dismissed, and he was found not 2010. He pleaded guilty to a lesser The preliminary consent order He would still be allowed to prac- bers. guilty of the fourth. charge and was fined $1,000. filed by the bar does not detail tice, but another attorney would Soles has also been the target of In another incident, Soles pep- who made the initial complaint be required to handle any deposits clients or a trust account.” accusations of sexual assault by per sprayed another former client against Soles, or the amount of or payments from money going to There are no allegations that clients he said he was helping tran- who allegedly attacked him. New stormwater fees appear likely in new city budget; residents could pay $6 monthly, businesses charged $12 By Allen Turner in line with what is charged There are 563 municipalities and [email protected] elsewhere. Currently, 83 munici- 100 counties in the state. The palities and counties in North only town in Columbus County No decision has been finalized, Carolina assess stormwater fees. with such a fee is Chadbourn, but it appears likely that resi- Although fees range from a low which has been imposing a $3 dents and businesses in White- of 50 cents a month to a high of monthly fee for years. Establish- ville will be assessed fees to $12 monthly per residential cus- ment of stormwater development create a stormwater utility fund tomer, the average in the Tar Heel ordinances would aid in slowing when a new city budget is adopted state is $6.25 a month. water flow into the system and to go into effect on July 1. Fees elsewhere in the state allow the stormwater system to City council held a two-hour vary depending on whether the “keep up” in hard rains. workshop Monday to talk about property served is residential, Implementation of the storm- creating the fund and heard from commercial or industrial and de- water utility fund would be un- Finance Director Coburn Brown pending on the property’s use, the dertaken by the city’s planning and City Manager Darren Currie size of the property, and area of and zoning department. that monthly fees of $6 for resi- impervious surface and the char- Establishment of a storm- dences and $12 for commercial acteristics of the local watershed water utility fund would have a accounts likely will be recom- into which stormwater drains. primary effect of reducing ad- mended when Currie presents Eighty-three municipalities ditional flooding created by new File photo his proposed budget to council. and counties in North Carolina Floodwaters in downtown Whiteville after Hurricane Florence The proposed fee would be currently assess stormwater fees. uuSEE STORMWATER 6A in 2018. Volume 128, Number 084 Colleagues teasing County Commissioner Edwin Russ by giving him a box of crayons to keep him occu- Whiteville, North Carolina DIDYOB pied during the board’s retreat Tuesday at Lake Waccamaw State Park?...County and city school students excited about being out for spring break through next week?... The Easter bunny planning to visit Veterans DID YOU OBSERVE? Memorial Park on U.S. 701 S. of Whiteville Saturday? 2A • The News Reporter • Friday, April 19, 2019 IN BRIEF State hearing on sheriff’s race still not scheduled The State Board of Elections (SBOE) has not yet scheduled a meeting to act on recommendations from the Columbus County Board of Elections in the disputed sheriff ’s race between Republican challenger Jody Greene and incumbent Democrat Lewis Hatcher. Greene defeated Hatcher by 37 votes, and the November general election has been a matter of controversy ever since. SBOE spokesman Pat Gannon said Wednesday that the state board had not yet received a transcript from a court reporter of the two-day hearing conducted in Whiteville by the county at the order of the SBOE on April 3-4. The state board cannot schedule a meeting on the matter until the transcript is received. Gannon was hopeful that the transcript would be available this week.
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