Incompetence or malfeasance prevails. Transparency please. October 13, 2018

The River Valley Sports Complex, back on front-page center stage. This time to appeal the verdict against the city on said RVSC and in all likelihood file further criminal charges against RVSC participants.

What is absent in the Times Record Article 10/10/18 are at least 3 questions which remain unanswered and nobody except yours truly seems to want to ask or know.

There are at least 4 members and perhaps more of the Fort Smith City Board that may have been around when this curiously concocted plan was hatched. Possible suspects are Directors Settle, Good, Hutchings & Catsavis. Hutchings was on a couple of administrations back.

Question number 1. Who authorized this notorious scheme of former Senator Jake Files (R) & Democrat Election Commissioner Lee Webb? And why?

The 2nd question & most obvious one, why didn’t the then and current Park’s Director exercise extreme daily oversight of the project, and more particularly of both politicians?

Partner Jake Files is now residing in a federal prison in El Reno, OK with the strong possibility of more charges filed against him: therefore the final question being why is Lee Webb not being held legally accountable for his participation in the RVSC fiasco? The T.R. stated specifically that Lee Webb, Jr. stated he was a “principal partner of RVSC”, which I believe demands investigation & litigation.

The absence of answers to the stated questions leaves no doubt that the RVSC deal was and is corrupt to the core. What is the position of the Federal Prosecutor?

Joe McCutchen
Arkansas Freedom dot com