Cronyism and Corruption on Greenville City Council
From the article "As part of a storm of complaints and cross-complaints on the school’s sharply divided Board of Trustees, Moore filed a complaint against trustee Max Joyner. The complaint involves allegations Joyner used his position as a trustee and information he gained on the board as part of a real estate deal near campus. Moore has also alleged Joyner tried to recruit his own student government presidential candidate at the school."
This article was back in 2020. I believe Joyner failed then but has since succeeded in his mission to fund and hand-pick the current SGA president; and has leveraged this into his very own puppet on the Greenville City Council.
Seth Hardee, an ECU student, defeated the incumbent Marion Blackburn in the last election. Where does an ECU student get the money and campaign manager to run for local office? In the main photo in the article, we see sitting in a row awaiting recount results: the current SGA president, Hardee, and none other than Max Joyner.
What will Joyner want for his return on investment? Will it benefit him and his landlord cronies (like the mayor), or the public?