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ASHEVILLE - Former high-ranking Buncombe County elected official Ellen Frost has been sentenced to six months in prison for corruption.
The sentence was unexpected following a plea deal with prosecutors who recommended no prison time. U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Conrad imposed the punishment April 28 for the former Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Democratic vice chair, saying the case was unusual in that she did not gain monetarily, but that it had the very serious nature of local government corruption.
In the plea deal reached earlier this year, Frost admitted to conspiring with ex-County Manager Wanda Greene to misapply more than $575,000 of taxpayer s funds toward equestrian enterprises. In return, prosecutors agreed to recommend home confinement. They also agreed to give her a special avenue to appeal, though it was not clear after the hearing if she would.
ASHEVILLE - A former lieutenant governor candidate, a long-time top county elected official and an influential racial justice scholar are asking a federal judge for leniency in the sentencing of ex-county Commissioner Ellen Frost, who was convicted of corruption.
The dozen letters from former lieutenant governor candidate Terry Van Duyn, ex-Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair David Gantt, UNC Asheville political science professor emeritus Dwight Mullen and others were submitted by Frost s attorney in advance of her April 28 sentencing by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Conrad in Asheville. Ellen Frost ran for the right reasons and worked hard to make Buncombe County a better place. I hope during your deliberations, you will find it possible to take into consideration the good she did while serving Buncombe County, said Van Duyn, who served seven years as a Democratic North Carolina state senator from Buncombe.
Jan 25, 2021
How do you beat Lovely Warren?
As she runs for a third term, under indictment and at odds with Black Lives Matter demonstrators sometimes encamped outside City Hall, how do you beat her?
She’s got money, she’s got incumbency, she’s got a worshipful following on Facebook. She’s the right color and she’s the right gender and, as the last vestige of the David Gantt political machine, she’s backed into a corner and ready to fight.
On one hand, she seems like a pushover. A deeply wounded politician who is about to be blown to smithereens in a live webcast of the deposition of the former police chief who is going to say that she lied to the public about the death of Daniel Prude. She’s facing a felony charge having to do with squirrely campaign money. Her political organization has lost every fight it’s been in for the last two years.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Hundreds of people scattered chaotically in the early-morning darkness. Trying to escape a volley of gunfire, the young people gathered for a backyard party dispersed in countless different directions.
Ultimately, two 19-year-old Rochester residents were killed, 14 more were struck by gunfire, and police were left to sift through a massive and confusing scene. As they tried to get people to safety, they also had to gather others for interviews. What happened just after 1 a.m. on Sept. 19 in the 200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue is still under investigation. Police haven t made any arrests in the largest shooting in recent memory.
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