Big-time Tabor City slithering snake, Carl David Wright arrest has no connection with Senator RC Soles, or so they say. We just thought you'd want to know that. We wanted you to know that David Wright's cocaine dealing days are not to be confused with the good Senator federal investigation. Nope, nothing the feds will admit to. The feds never comment on an investigation, never.
Carl David Wright, 53, home is located at 665 Vinegar Loop Road in the Vinegar Hill community northeast of Tabor City. Authorities discovered $256,000 and the 32 ounces of powder cocaine at the home. They made numerous undercover buys from Wright.
Wright, who was a police officer in Tabor City from 1978 to 1983, is not employed, and told officers at the time of his arrest he worked sometimes as an “assistant insurance adjuster.”
Wright is being held in the county jail under a $1 million secured bond, and the FBI has filed a detainer on him in case he posts the bond.
On August 19, 2002 Wright was convicted for possessing drugs. The defense attorney, RC Soles, was able to beat down the original charges of felony possession with intent to distribute to possession, and to dismiss a charge for maintaining a house for the purposes of dealing drugs.
In 1987 Wright was arrested by the same Columbus County detective that arrested him on all the other charges. In 1987 Wright was arrested for being a moonshiner.
Now don't get all excited trying to link a connection between Wright and Soles. I know there are tons of rumors running around about how Wright and Soles go way back. Senator Soles is a very public person and has many "connections" with people from all walks of life. Just because someone says Sen. Soles uses Wright from time to time to effect various situations in Soles' favor does not mean it is true. And just because the FBI has an interest in this case does not mean it has any connection with the supposed Grand Jury investigation taking place in Raleigh... at least that's what they say.
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck...it's usually a duck!
This duck will quack his head off and the big fat Christmas goose will soon end up on the US Attorney's dinner table. Dig in boys!
or so they say.
Was he part of COLCOR?
Was David Wright involved in COLCOR? That's a good question. Perhaps someone can answer that for us. We all know Soles was indicted for influence peddling, vote tampering, buying votes for District Attorney candidate Rex Gore, conspiracy to affect commerce by extortion, charges filed by the FBI. He went to trial in Federal Court but the case was dismissed on a technicality. The defense argued that the FBI undercover agent was untruthful because as an undercover agent to lie about your identity, you lie about your business so why, the defense argued, wouldn't the agent lie about Soles' involvement.
"COLCOR" stands for Columbus County Corruption, federal and state investigations ultimately snared a state district judge, two state legislators, a local police chief, two sheriffs, a county commissioner and the state's second-highest-ranking official.
Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green, a former speaker of the N.C. House and presiding officer of the Senate, was charged by a Wake County grand jury with accepting a $2,000 bribe from an FBI agent named Robert Drdak who posed as a businessman.
Neither Soles or Jimmy Green were found guilty of anything.
Interesting note Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green was accused of accepting a bribe. He was tried in state court in Raleigh rather than in the judicial district that included Green’s home county. Then-prosecutor Easley (Bruswick, Columbus, Bladen) called the Wake County district attorney and persuaded him that trial should be in Raleigh, where Green presided over the state Senate.
Says who? Says the current Wake District Attorney, Colon Willoughby, a friend of Easley’s .
In 1983, Willoughby was the acting Wake DA for two three-week periods when DA Randolph Riley was on short leaves of absence for drug problems, and Willoughby signed the indictment of Green. But two special prosecutors were called in to handle the Green trial. Green was found not guilty probably because while he had clearly discussed accepting a bribe with an undercover agent named “Doc Ryan” and had taken a $2,000 check, he gave the check back the next day. The jury didn’t think prosecutors had proven their case against Green.
Willoughby now jokes that he was "young and naive" when he agreed to then-DA Easley’s suggestion that the trial be held in Wake Superior Court. Willoughby later was elected Wake DA.
It really is all about how the game is played.
Here are several scandals involving North Carolina politicians:
* In 2005, former U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance was sentenced to four years in a federal prison for funneling about $100,000 in public money from a nonprofit he founded to his law firm, church and relatives.
* In 2004, Meg Scott Phipps, the former agriculture commissioner from a storied North Carolina political family, was sentenced to four years in a federal prison for taking tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions. Phipps' father and grandfather were North Carolina governors.
* In 2003, Garland B. Garrett Jr., a former state transportation secretary, was sentenced to five months in prison for operating an illegal gambling business.
* In 1997, former Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green was sentenced to 33 months of house arrest for income tax fraud in connection with a multimillion-dollar tobacco fraud scheme. He died in 2000.
* In 1982, former state Rep. G. Ron Taylor was sentenced to five years in prison for accepting a $1,500 bribe from the same undercover agent that contacted Green.
And of course the recent downfall of the Speaker of the House Jim Black and House Representative Thomas Wright.
Tell me, please--how many of those corrupt politicians were democrats?
Everyone of them were democrats.
Former North Carolina state Rep. Michael Decker, a republican, was sentenced to four years in prison in April for accepting a bribe to switch political parties.
A judge sentenced Decker on one count of soliciting and accepting $50,000 in cash and campaign contributions to switch from the Republican to the Democratic Party.
And this is how they passed the NC Lottery.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
While you're looking for "vote buying" someone should look at and investigate Julia Boseman's campaign finance reports. Specifically the people paid on Castle Street and around that area. Word has it, she paid the leaders in the black communities and other blacks for their vote. That was before this last election.
Senator Boseman is permitted to pay people to campaign for her. Hollis Briggs, long time community organizer and Julia's waterboy, was paid something like $2,000 a month to influence the vote. All this is perfectly legal. The 50 or so african american poll workers she had on her payroll that are listed in her campaign finance report are all legal. In fact poll workers have been paid at these primarily black precincts for a long time. They are well paid members of the community.
When you look at Sen. Boseman's campaign reports from last election, these things were put in her finance report, the same ones with the forged signature of her treasurer. Why, when Boseman could have legally signed her own name? What was she attempting to hide?
Wasn't there something on national news a few years back that stated Columbus County NC as being either #1 or #2 as being the most corrupt county in the nation? When will people sing in Columbus that know the filth that has been going on for years...
sorry for the as being as being sentence.
David Wright could not have acted alone in his drug set up because he didn't have the sense to operate such a large business.
His ties to Senator Soles probably run deeper than anyone suspects.
His wife certainly had to know about his business. She is the cool cucumber of them all.
Wright claims to have worked as an assistant insurance adjuster. If you call driving an insurance aduster around because he was convicted of a DWLR as work, I don't think so.
Wright was never a good TC police officer and he had to leave that position because of problems.
I don't have a single bit of sympathy for him. It will be interesting to see who his lawyer will be. Probably not Senator Soles, but it wouldn't surprise me if Soles was to be chosen because he hangs with a rougher crowd than David Wright.
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