Scotland County town’s charter being dissolved amid alleged financial misdeeds

SCOTLAND COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — The modest city of East Laurinburg will turn into an unincorporated part of Scotland County on Friday amid documented money violations, the Carolina Community Press studies.

Previous fall, a report by the condition auditor’s business office detailed the economic violations of East Laurinburg officials and proposed embezzlement rates. Having said that, Scotland County District Legal professional Reece Saunders has not sought criminal expenses versus the town’s former economical officer.

The Local Government Fee utilized a new law (Senate Invoice 314) final December for the initially time in North Carolina historical past and unanimously voted to dissolve the town’s constitution.

The commission seized the town’s guides and took control of its finances a thirty day period in advance of voting to dissolve the charter.

State Treasurer Dale Folwell, who chairs the commission, reportedly has urged the Common Assembly to revoke the town’s constitution because it had “ceased to functionality as a feasible governing device,”

Folwell then identified as on Saunders to cost the former formal in relationship to monetary violations.