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- Federal Lawsuit Challenges “Politically Manufactured” Marijuana Rescheduling Order
"...one of the most haphazard and legally indefensible drug-policy actions in modern American history:..." May 29, 2026 Americans Against Legalizing Marijuana (AALM) has received notice of a federal lawsuit challenging one of the most haphazard and legally indefensible drug-policy actions in modern American history: the Biden-Trump Administration’s effort to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include a cannabis addiction recovery clinic, two doctors, a cannabis industry victims rights organization and a cannabinoid medical company. The lawsuit claims that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s April 22 order attempts to federally legitimize state "medical" marijuana systems without requiring the scientific scrutiny, FDA approval, medical safeguards, or regulatory accountability demanded of every other federally recognized medicine. According to AALM, the order represents not reform, but political capitulation to a powerful and rapidly expanding marijuana industry whose profits depend on normalizing high-potency THC consumption while minimizing its risks.“This administration is trying to declare marijuana medicine by political decree instead of scientific proof,” said AALM President Carla Lowe. “If this order stands, it will fundamentally corrupt the integrity of the FDA approval process and the Controlled Substances Act itself.” "The lawsuit names President Trump as a defendant because it was his Executive Order that started this arbitrary process" stated David Evans Chief Counsel for the Cannabis Industry Victims Educating Litigators (CIVEL). Federal Government Accused of Creating a Fraudulent Medical System The lawsuit centers on the allegation that the federal government is creating a legally unprecedented “hybrid” drug category that exempts marijuana from standards applied to every other Schedule III controlled substance.Under federal law, Schedule III drugs require: 1. FDA-reviewed safety and efficacy data 2. Physician oversight 3. Controlled prescribing systems 4. Manufacturing controls 5. Pharmacy accountability 6. Labeling and warning requirements 7. Standardized dosing State "Medical" Marijuana satisfies none of those requirements. Yet the Attorney General’s order would permit state medical marijuana products — including raw cannabis flower, ultra-high potency THC concentrates, vape oils, edibles and THC products exceeding 90% potency, to bypass the safeguards imposed on every other federally recognized controlled medicine. This creates a dangerous double standard where political favoritism replaces evidence-based medicine. “Medical Marijuana” Without Medical Standards AALM claims the term “medical marijuana” itself has become politically weaponized and scientifically hollow. Unlike legitimate medicines, state "medical" marijuana marijuana has: No universally accepted dosing guidelines No standardized therapeutic formulations No FDA-approved package inserts No accepted prescribing framework No reliable potency consistency No uniform manufacturing standards State "medical" marijuana programs operate largely through subjective physician “recommendations” rather than actual prescriptions. In most jurisdictions, patients can obtain marijuana approvals with little or no meaningful medical evaluation. AALM argues that these systems bear virtually no resemblance to federally regulated medical frameworks and instead function as commercial retail operations masquerading as healthcare. “Calling something medicine does not make it medicine,” says AALM VP Scott Chipman. “Medicine requires science, standardization, clinical evidence, and accountability. The marijuana industry has spent years bypassing those requirements while demanding the credibility of pharmaceutical legitimacy.” FDA Approval Process Being Circumvented The lawsuit further argues that the Department of Justice is attempting to use United Nations rescheduling powers to circumvent our federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act entirely. While the FDA has approved isolated synthetic THC cannabinoid-based pharmaceuticals it has never approved smoked or raw plant derived marijuana containing THC as safe or effective medicine. According to the complaint, this political shortcut undermines decades of public-health protections and creates a dangerous precedent in which public pressure and industry lobbying override scientific review. Public Health Risks Ignored The lawsuit will also accuse federal officials of not providing physicians with FDA-quality evidence documenting marijuana-related harms, including: Increased risk of psychosis Adolescent neurological impairment Cannabis use disorder and dependency Cognitive decline Cardiovascular complications Prenatal developmental harm Drugged driving fatalities Psychiatric destabilization In addition, the lawsuit will highlight hundreds of known harmful marijuana interactions involving medications such as warfarin, benzodiazepines, antiepileptic drugs, sedatives, statins, corticosteroids, and psychiatric medications. AALM claims that no comprehensive federal physician informational framework exists to safely manage these interactions. “The first obligation of medicine is ‘do no harm,’” added VP Scott Chipman. “This rescheduling effort abandons that principle in favor of politics, ideology, and corporate profit.” Lawsuit Challenges Legality of Order The lawsuit raises multiple legal challenges, including whether the Attorney General: Exceeded statutory authority Violated procedural due process Ignored federal administrative requirements Created an unlawful scheduling category never authorized by Congress Failed to address documented public-health harms Violated international treaty obligations Violated the major questions doctrine by making a decision of enormous economic and political consequence without clear congressional authorization “This case is about far more than marijuana,” stated Evans. "It is about whether science and the rule of law still matter in American drug policy.” Media Contacts:Carla Lowe, President, AALM(916) 708-4111carladlowe@aol.comScott Chipman, Vice President, AALM(619) 990-7480scott@chipman.infoDave Evans, Chief Legal Counsel Cannabis Industry Victims Educating Litigators (CIVEL)(908) 963-0254seniorcounsel@civel.orgPatrick Kenneally, Esq.Connor Mighell, Esq.Burke Law Group(847) 651-8525Dr. Ken Finn, Plaintiff(719) 331-9199 Dr. Libby Stuyt, Plaintiff(719) 671-1611 We appreciate your generous donation! Petition for Review Circuit Court of Appeals District of Columbia New Directions V. Trump https://static1.squarespace.com/static/597f5bd2f7e0ab110dbfb2e5/t/6a19e306b230665694904079/1780081414980/NEW.DIRECTIONS.V.TRUMP+26-1136.pdf Donate
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- Dead voters, double registrations and the law the states are ignoring
https://nevadanewsandviews.com/dead-voters-double-registrations-and-the-law-states-are-ignoring/ Your Voter Rolls Are a Mess. Some States Won't Let Anyone Look. One in eight voter registrations in America is significantly inaccurate. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a Pew Research finding. And some states are fighting hard to make sure you can't verify it for yourself. A new legal report from the Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law, written by Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky, lays out exactly what's going on. It's a story about dirty voter rolls, federal law, and courts that can't agree on something that really shouldn't be this complicated. The Problem Is Bigger Than You Think Between 2013 and 2023, more than 35 million voter registrations were out of date because people had moved, died, or were registered more than once. That's not just sloppy recordkeeping. It's a wide-open door for fraud. A 2020 study compared voter registration lists and voter histories from 42 states. What it found was troubling. There were over 144,000 cases of potentially fraudulent voting during the 2016 and 2018 elections. That included more than 14,000 deceased voters who were recorded as having cast ballots. Over 81,000 people who voted twice at the same address. Nearly 8,400 who voted in two different states. And 34,000 who voted despite being registered at vacant lots, parks, or commercial buildings. Is it any wonder that 43 percent of Americans told Gallup they're not confident in the accuracy and security of our elections? The Law Already Has an Answer Congress saw this coming. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993, known as the NVRA, requires states to keep accurate voter rolls and make those records available for public inspection. Not just for election officials. For anyone. The law is pretty clear. States have to maintain records on their voter list maintenance programs and make them available for public inspection. The goal is transparency. Let citizens and watchdog groups check the work. Groups like the Public Interest Legal Foundation have been doing exactly that. They've asked states for voter roll records. And some states have said no. Where Courts Are Making a Mess Here's where it gets complicated. Federal courts across the country can't agree on who has the right to demand these records in court. The First and Tenth Circuits say yes, watchdog groups have standing to sue when states refuse to hand over voter data. The Ninth Circuit says they have standing but then ruled they can't actually get the voter registration list itself. And the Third, Fifth, and Sixth Circuits say these groups don't have standing at all. That's a genuine legal mess. Your rights under federal law depend entirely on which state you're in. In Michigan, election integrity group PILF tried to get records showing 34,000 deceased voters still on the rolls. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson refused. The Sixth Circuit sided with Benson. In New Mexico, a group published voter data it legally obtained, and the secretary of state sent a criminal referral to the attorney general. You read that right. A criminal referral for publishing public voter data. What Needs to Happen Von Spakovsky's conclusion is straightforward. The U.S. Supreme Court needs to step in and settle this. The NVRA means what it says. The public has a right to inspect voter rolls. No extra hoops. No proving you “need” the information before you're allowed to have it. Nevada isn't immune to these problems either. Our state has had its own questions about voter roll accuracy and post-election counting processes. When federal law provides a transparency tool, Nevada's citizens should be able to use it. Clean elections start with clean voter rolls. And clean voter rolls start with transparency. The Supreme Court should make sure we can get it. The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Nevada News & Views. Digital technology was used in the research, writing, and production of this article. Please verify information and consult additional sources as needed. Chuck Muth Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, founder of CampaignDoctor.com, and publisher of Nevada News & Views. His views are his own. He can be reached at chuck@chuckmuth.com.
- EIN Sending Progressives into a Panic
Marc Elias and the progressive establishment are spiraling because the Election Integrity Network and Cleta Mitchell dropped the Model Election Laws Handbook, giving states a real blueprint to dismantle the election chaos machine that they have spent years creating and protecting.For years the Left exported the same playbook nationwide: mass mail ballots, loose verification, ballot harvesting, "just trust us" systems. Now conservatives have a playbook of their own, and the same people who manipulated election law from the shadows are suddenly clutching pearls about "democracy." The handbook covers proof of citizenship, voter ID, transparent ballots, clean voter rolls, and chain-of-custody protections.Progressive outlets like Democracy Docket posted scathing reviews of the handbook, exposing how threatened they are by its existence.The loopholes are closing, and the meltdowns prove it. Know the rules. Change the laws. Protect your vote. Read the Guidehttps://www.modelelectionlaws.org/
- Tea Time Thursday, June 18th: Meet Jeff Groh for City Council
Tea Time Meeting is Thursday, June 18th at Noon at Bay Breeze Restaurant, 1830 Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville, NC 28792 View the entire newsletter in your browser here. Speaker: Jeff Groh for Hendersonville City Council: Town Hall. Q & A https://www.groh4council.com/ Agenda Ammo Raffle/250th Anniversary items Updates on Election Integrity strategies and H958 at the NC General Assembly Luncheon Fundraiser for Buncombe Sheriff Candidate, Gary Parris, Saturday, July 25th .Hosted by William and Delphine Noland. 5. Special Guests: Delphine Noland and Hilly from the Buncombe County Republican Women's Club will join us. Permanent Rulemaking by NCSBE- We are tackling the 15 Rules Need your citizen input: Action Alerts: Photo ID In-Person Voting. Revise the NC Administrative Code for Election Rules: Public Comment ends July 15th. Part II of the Epoch Times documentary: The Final War: The 100 Year Plot to Defeat America. Trailer
- Vance Refers New Fraud Allegations Against Walz to DOJ
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/09/vance-refers-new-fraud-allegations-against-walz-to-doj/ Vice President JD Vance said he has referred new fraud allegations against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation. A report of the House Oversight Committee released Monday alleges Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison were “aware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years” but did not attempt to stop it. “Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimidated whistleblowers, they must face justice,” Vance said Monday on X.
- Feds Probe CA Ballots
Bongino Report Today's Top Stories June 8, 2026 TRUMP FINALLY HAD ENOUGH President Trump had heard enough. During a “Meet the Press” interview that aired Sunday, NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Trump multiple questions about elections but didn’t like his answers, so she repeatedly interrupted him and downplayed obvious problems with election integrity. But Trump was done speaking with a “one-sided crooked network” — and turned the tables on Welker. “Your elections are crooked and you’re crooked and ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked,” Trump said. “So let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough.” Welker begged him to stay, but Trump refused. “Thank you darling, have a good time,” he said — and then he walked out. FEDS PROBE CALIFORNIA’S BALLOTS Democrats always seem to find the votes. On election night last week, Spencer Pratt held a sizable lead over far-left Democrat Nithya Raman to advance to a November runoff against Mayor Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Then a flood of mail-in ballots began erasing his edge — with Raman somehow winning nearly every new drop. Now, Pratt’s lead over Raman is just 1%. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli on Friday announced “multiple election fraud investigations” are underway with the FBI, citing California’s “serious structural vulnerabilities.” “My office will not look the other way. We will investigate and prosecute,” Essayli said.
- Cultural Mood Turns Against Data Centers
By Bill Moss, Published: June 5, 2026 https://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/four-seasons-politics/16122-the-cultural-mood-turns-against-data-centers.html If it’s new and made of steel and concrete, it must be a data center. Even if it’s old, it must be a data center, as long as it’s vacant. It can’t be a warehouse/distribution or a factory or simply a vacant former mill because, well, a data center is scarier. … Related Stories Ask Matt ... whether a data center could locate here Laurel Park approves zoning to allow more commercial use Petition seeks to block sewer permits until spills end Fence case ends suddenly when applicant walks out Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning Meaning, that big building behind the Blue Ridge Commerce Center is a data center, right? And the old Coats America thread mill in Laurel Park is gonna be one, too, right? Wrong and wrong — and elected leaders are worn out from quashing the rumor. The Upward rumor got deep-sixed last week when local and state officials announced that BorgWarner is building a manufacturing plant off McMurray Road. So we asked county and Laurel Park leaders whether the Coats America building is an AI data center waiting to happen. “It is not,” County Manager John Mitchell said. “There are no current permits that have been pulled or that someone is attempting to pull for any data center projects in the county. The Henderson County commissioners passed a zoning change I want to say five years ago that addressed the possibility of data mining or data centers of large industrial uses that consume large amounts of power and water. The code makes those very difficult to accomplish in the county.” That preemptory strike against data centers, which came before opposition to data centers became a national NIMBY trend, hasn’t stopped worried residents from lighting up the county switchboard. “We’ve probably gotten 20 or 30 emails from citizens concerned about that, and the board is concerned about it too, and we’ve discussed with the county attorney what options we might have to stop it,” Board of Commissioners Chair Bill Lapsley said of the Coats America site, which is in unincorporated Henderson County but subject to Laurel Park’s extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction. Adopted in 2023 to guard against cryptocurrency mining operations, the county’s regulations are among the most restrictive in the state. The rules bar bitcoin mining facilities from locating within 2 miles of a home or residential zone, library, nursing facility, group care facility, day care center, park, church or school — and pile on a dozen more specific restrictions. Lapsley said commissioners may take a look at applying those restrictions and others to all data centers. Bitcoin mining is a close cousin of but not exactly the same as data centers, which are proliferating because of the need to feed the booming artificial intelligence industry. County Attorney Russ Burrell has been advising commissioners on their options, which are limited because of the law the Legislature enacted in late 2024 that barred cities and counties from making land-use zones more restrictive by downzoning. “If the commissioners take away a use from land, that’s a downzoning,” Burrell said. “What they can do is what five or six other counties and have done, issue a moratorium to study the things they can do — which is to persuade the Legislature to get rid of the downzoning (law) at least as far as data centers. Right now they’re bound by this issue of downzoning and they have to figure out what they can do around the downzoning.” In Laurel Park, the vacant Coats America mill is the most visible object of curiosity. Since the plant closed and was bought by Ingles, residents of the town and parts west have wondered about its status. Many hoped Ingles would build a new supermarket there. But in recent weeks, social media was all fizzed up with a new possibility: A data center was going in. “That was a bunch of bull--,” said Carey O’Cain, the usually mild-mannered Laurel Park mayor. When he looked into the rumor, O’Cain found the source. There was a growing frenzy about a new data center going up in Henderson, all right, which turned out to be the town in Vance County near Kerr Lake on the Virginia line. “Someone had picked that up and broadcast it around and the emails just wore my a-- out,” O’Cain said. “The first call I received was from Ingles: ‘What do you know about a data center going into our property?’ And I said, ‘That’s not true.’” As for the hoped-for supermarket, that's highly unlikely, too, on the site penned in between the Ecusta Trail and the upcoming roundabout project on U.S. 64. "That property is not big enough to build new Ingles on. They know that," O'Cain said, adding it's possible that Ingles could try to acquire property to the east to make it work. ‘We don’t have the sites’ Suffice it to say, elected leaders are in tune with the growing anxiety over the centers filled with acres of powerful computers firing out AI answers at the speed of light. The plants are energy hogs, water hogs, big noise polluters. Lapsley, the county commission who is also a retired civil engineer, says land availability may be a greater impediment than zoning. “My middle son works for a construction contractor in Chicago,” Lapsley said. “He tells me that he's working on a number of these data centers in the Midwest, and he said, ‘Dad, you know these places are requiring 5-600 acres or more of flat land.’ If that's what they need to build a site, plus huge amounts of power, we just don't have the sites here. They're not going to pay $100,000 an acre for that kind of place, not around here. I don't think the likelihood of one coming here is very high now. Maybe South Carolina has some property, but I don't think we've got sites for that.” Just this week, the Hendersonville City Council signaled that it’s interested in doing what it can to block a data center. During the council comments segment at the tail end of Thursday night’s meeting, Gina Baxter raised the idea of a moratorium on the facilities. “It's not as simple as just adopting a moratorium,” cautioned City Attorney Angela Beeker. “You've got to do some work, some study, and a little process before you do it, but we could certainly map out the steps and bring that back to you for consideration.” Beeker noted that the state House had just passed a bill earlier that day regulating data centers as the political mood in Raleigh tilts away from data centers. Gov. Josh Stein and some legislators are calling for an end to economic development incentives to encourage the increasingly unpopular facilities.
- Luncheon Fundraiser for Buncombe Sheriff Candidate, Gary Parris, Saturday, July 25th
Click to RSVP here. View this in your browser https://parrisforsafety.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2faf81c4753429f1034e5a9c9&id=5b72cbffeb&e=3d84511acd More about Gary and why we need him to clean up the mess in Buncombe https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/gary-parris-for-buncombe-county-sheriff
- Kratom, the legal drug that's destroying lives & the community that's providing hope
There are lobbies in NC devoted to this drug. https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/the-legal-drug-that-is-destroying-lives-and-the-community-thats-providing-hope-6025850 After Decima Davis started taking kratom, a tropical plant often billed as a healthy pick-me-up, she couldn’t stop. Whenever she tried to pry herself loose from kratom’s grip, her torment only intensified. “Every morning, I’d wake up drenched in sweat, already in agony, knowing relief was just two minutes away at the local gas station” that sold the products, Davis, 51, of Mississippi, told The Epoch Times. “I spent my mornings throwing up, desperately redosing just to be functional enough for work. That desperation is what led to three overdoses and grand mal seizures. “I reached a point where I couldn’t even look in the mirror; I didn’t recognize the person looking back. I felt completely gone, just a hollow shell of myself living a daily nightmare. “It was a relentless, soul-crushing cycle.” After many failed efforts, something finally clicked for Davis after she and two fellow kratom addicts formed the online community “Quitting Kratom Support—There Is A Way Out.” Since its inception in 2017, the peer-guided group has drawn upward of 15,000 unique online visitors, said Davis, its president. “The group replaced my isolation with accountability. In the past, I was surrounded by negative messages and self-loathing, but this community drowned that out,” she said. “We use a ‘collective tools’ approach—people bring what they’ve learned from various programs and share it. Peer support is backed by the ‘helper therapy principle,’ which suggests that when we help others, we heal ourselves.” Now, at least three times a day, dozens of people quietly tap into a reservoir of hope at KratomQuitters.com. In the past two months, online attendance has grown 17 percent, Davis said. Many group members, including Davis, credit the online community with saving their lives. “We want people to know: Hope is out there; there’s help,” Davis said, noting that she and a handful of other volunteers—all unpaid—keep the group running. They often absorb website costs and other expenses themselves, defrayed by some contributions. Davis said being around others “who actually understand the specific pull of kratom” is key. “Being surrounded by people who truly want to see me win changed my internal narrative from ‘I’m a failure’ to ‘I am part of a family that cares about my well-being and loves me,’” she said. “This community is the family I chose. It didn’t just help me manage the withdrawals; it gave me my soul back.” Increased interest in groups such as Davis’s parallels the rise of kratom use in the United States, along with higher numbers of reported adverse effects among users—and additional legal restrictions. Last year, a Journal of Psychoactive Drugs survey found that about 9 percent of Americans were using kratom. That’s a ninefold increase over the 1 percent that an American Journal of Preventive Medicine survey estimated in 2019.
- Hendersonville Alert: In lawsuit seeking receivership, lender calls Cedars developer 'insolvent'
The eyesore of Hendersonville! https://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/business/16107-in-lawsuit-seeking-receivership-lender-calls-cedars-developer-insolvent.html By Bill Moss, Published: June 1, 2026 The lender of a $32 million construction loan for the building of the Cedars condominium project in downtown Hendersonville has filed a lawsuit seeking the appointment of a receiver to take control of the property, declaring in the suit that the loan was in default as of Dec. 31 and asserting that the developer is insolvent or “in imminent danger of insolvency.” The court action by Fuse 10 LLC comes as the site of the grandly planned development sits idle. The general contractor, pulled off the job in March and has sued the Cedars Lodge & Spa for $7 million in unpaid invoices for work and materials. Fuse 10 is part of Fort Lauderdale-based Fuse Group Investment Companies, a bridge and construction lender. In a 13-page complaint filed on Friday in Henderson County Civil Superior Court, Fuse’s Charlotte-based attorney, William L. Esser IV, sets forth the timeline of the project and the failure by the developer, the Cedars and managing partner Greggory Covin, to repay the construction loan. The Cedars Lodge & Spa was formed in April 2020 to buy land and construct a high-end residential/hotel condominium in downtown Hendersonville. The Cedars and another corporation Covin and investors formed, 719NoMain, bought eight parcels of land valued on the tax books at $11,662,500. The land contained the historic Cedars building, plus the Chariot and the Autobell carwash, which were razed to make way for the new construction. The land and buildings bounded by North Church Street, U.S. 64 and Buncombe Street were bought by Hendersonville businessman Clifton Shipman in the 1950s and passed on to his son, Thomas W. “Tom” Shipman, the well-known operator of the Cedars and Chariot as event venues. An exhibit in the Fuse lawsuit lists the corporation's owners as Tom Shipman, Clifton's daughter Barbara Shipman Huntley and his widow, Delores Shipman, each with a 10 percent stake, and LBM Enterprises LLC and Greggory Covin, with 35 percent apiece. Covin, the builder of several successful high-end developments in Miami, is married to Shelley Shipman, the daughter of Fran and Tom Shipman.Covin did not immediately respond to a request from the Lightning for an interview or statement in response to the Fuse 10 lawsuit. The condo development, unveiled amid much fanfare as the Fairmont Heritage Place The Cedars, was marketed as “the Finest Residences in Western North Carolina.” The Cedars obtained the $32 million construction loan from Fuse in October 2022, secured by a deed of trust. In May 2025, the Cedars and Fuse agreed to extend the maturity date to Dec. 31, 2025. Covin and the Cedars had also secured junior construction loans — subordinate to the Fuse loan — through the EB-5 financing instrument. Covin announced plans in early 2025 to raise of $23.5 million through EB5, a U.S. immigration program that allows foreign investors to obtain a green card by investing capital in American businesses that create jobs. Construction on the luxury condos stalled in early 2026 as Turner demobilized and a contractor removed the crane that had towered over the city for more than a year. Fuse incorporates as an exhibit the lawsuit by Turner Construction Co. seeking $6,988,473 for breach of contract and asking the court to foreclose on a lien on the real property. Turner says in its lawsuit that it began work on the project in February 2024 and last performed work on Feb. 28 of this year. Multiple subcontractors have also filed mechanics’ liens against the Cedars, Fuse noted. Despite the lender’s notice of default, delivered to Covin’s office in North Miami on May 5, “the loan remains unpaid and in default,” Esser, the Fuse attorney wrote. “Defendants have failed to come up with additional funding for the project or a new lender to refinance the loan.”The attorney asserts that “the defendants are insolvent,” holding debts of $50 million against the tax value of the property of around $10 million. The first of two planned residential wings, the Church Street-facing Pisgah Tower, is “partially completed and is presently exposed to the elements,” raising concerns that the property will “continue to deteriorate,” the lender said. Citing the North Carolina General Receivership Act, Esser argues that a receivership is warranted when a person or corporation is insolvent, not paying its debts, unable to pay its debts or is in imminent danger of insolvency. The court’s authority to grant a receivership “is particularly applicable when corporate entities have agreed to the appointment of a receiver in their loan documents with a lender,” Esser said. If the Cedars is not insolvent, the Turner Construction lawsuit and potential for foreclosure of Turner’s lien claim “further evidences an imminent danger of insolvency.” If no receiver is appointed to manage, protect and maintain the building and grounds, the property is in danger of “waste, loss, dissipation and impairment,” the lawsuit asserts. THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY. RETURN TO THE LIGHTNING FOR MORE COVERAGE.
- News You Can Use: Week of June 1st, 2026
Townhall: The RNC Just Scored a Major Election Security Victory in North Carolina Mountain Area Pregnancy Services: A MAPS Minute video: https://mtnpregnancy.life/get-involved/maps-minute NC Family Policy Learn more about Governor Stein's Executive Order Learn more about the Children's Rights Scorecard Read the article on IVF The Federalist: Trump’s Counterterrorism Focus Shifts From Christian Parents To Antifa Thugs, Drug Cartels An earthquake! The Daily Signal: Paxton Defeats Cornyn in Texas Senate Primary ending Cornyn’s multi-decade career in the Senate. #RINOHUNTER Epoch Times: Trump Directs Agencies to Align With Study Recommending Fewer Childhood Vaccines Trump in ‘Excellent Health,’ Doctor Says Newsmax: Bessent: Trump Will Enforce Iran Deal, Lower Energy Prices Coming








