On the million-dollar bus-stop in Arlington....I lived in the area noted for 3.5 years and can vouch for the episode. Arlington runs a county council operation, with massive property and sales tax income. They basically have more money flowing into their pocket than they know what to do with....so, there are creative projects like this...more or less to just spend the loot as fast as possible. Citizen outage? I’d say fifty percent of the county are people moved in within the past two or three decades. Few folks show up at council meetings, and there’s no local newspaper for the county (we survive off the Washington Post, which rarely if ever reports on Arlington).
I should also note that there’s an aquatics center planned, which originally was talked about in 2010 at around $40 million (yeah a pretty hefty amount for just a pool complex). The recent bid? It’s around $85 million and with a overage expected....may cost around $100 million.
The curious thing is that the county wants to build what is an olympic pool, with slides and a ‘lazy’ river....then market it to local kids and families. No one....at this point has talked the ticket scheme or the cost of maintenance or operations staff. The odds of the complex ever paying itself? Zero.
Federal participation? No. It’s strictly county money...bound to be mismanaged, and no one cares.
You need to determine whether the city council issued "MISLEADING BOND OFFERINGS...perhaps funded by tax-exempt transportation bonds. (NOTE: Bonding means eternal taxpayer debt.)
The SEC and IRS would be interested in civil actions against city council members, financial directors, comptrollers, lawyers, financial units who might be involved in defrauding taxpayers about the city's finances in marketing materials---and if bond offerings were ballot referendums----by misleading voters/buyers for tax-exempt bonds.
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CONTACT: enforcement@sec.org.
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SAMPLE LETTER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, and bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: govt fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.
NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies by government insiders to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit and/or to facilitate redistribution schemes.
OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT The FBI should interrogate individuals for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify documents to further insider schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted.
Crimes might include---conspiracy, collusion, falsifying official documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extorting taxpayers, theft of govt monies, misuse of public office and government positions.
Thanks for your comments about the busstop and the proposed pool.