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your support. So let's talk about our sheriff again. I
didn't even get to all of the allegations against him
yesterday and I talked about it for over two hours.
That's how many allegations there are against Mecklemburg County Sheriff Gary.
Not my fault, McFadden. So some developments since the petition
was filed and was published by the law firm that
is handling the petition. They're based out of Raleigh, and
some leftist website purporting to be a news operation. They
got to the real heart of the matter. The real
story here is that they identified a Republican operative who
helped the law firm draw up the petition. Pay no
attention to the fact that the petitioners are all Democrats.
They're all former employees of the sheriff. So this is
not a Republican hit piece on Gary. Not my fault, McFadden.
This has been building for years, right. The real story
is not that some Republican guy helped to draw up
the petition for the law firm. The real story is
that we have an awful sheriff who is credibly a
cute of a whole host of things from corruption, maladministration, extortion, bribery,
retaliation against crime victims and whistleblowers like. We have been
documenting this for years and it has finally now resulted
in a petition for his removal. I have been advocating
this for years because it is the only way to
get him out of the office that he was elected to.
So because of the petition that was filed, the district
Attorney in Mecklemburg County now shall investigate or I guess
he could have the county attorney take it up, but
he Spencer Merriweather his office put out a statement yesterday
said the qualified filing of a removal petition is a
serious matter, requiring an approval determination from either the district
Attorney or the county attorney in order for the petition
to proceed. District attorneys have only rarely granted the approval
of such a petition. Yep, because the petitions are rare
in and of themselves too, So these things don't get
filed all the time. So, yes, that's true. But it's
also true that there aren't a lot of these things
that get filed. So with the understanding that the election
of a community's official is a binding choice of the
public which should be only superseded under the most grave circumstances, yes,
like we have right now. Yes, the most fundamentally sound
method for removal of public officers is popular election by ballot,
where the people of a given jurisdiction are themselves the
final arbiter of the fitness of those who wish to
serve them. Okay, slight problem there. If you have a
corrupt sheriff who has built a constituency out of inmates,
former inmates, and their families and a patronage system that
he is running through the jail through his office right
where he values the loyalty of his employees and their
families to go vote for him because their promotions depend
on their loyalty to him. And that's what's documented in
the petition here, not that he's demanding their votes, but
that their promotions are tied to loyalty. So obviously, if
you know your husband or wife works at the sheriff's
office and they are perceived to be not loyal enough
to the sheriff, then they're not going to get promotions.
They're going to get crap assignments. They may even get fired,
which is in the petition. But if you're loyal to
not my fault McFadden, and you're willing to act as
an informant to him about what other coworkers are doing,
then you can rise through the ranks and now you
are stickier to him, which means you're going to be supportive,
which translates into votes. Right, if you have an elected
official who has built a machine, if you will to
guarantee his continued reelection, this is the mechanism. I understand
that in a perfect world, these things should not be
entered into lightly, and all of that, I get all
of that. This is not being entered into lightly. The
accusations against him are well known, they've been documented, and
they are egregious, but it took until now for five people,
five voters with direct knowledge of these accusations, to finally
step forward to get the five necessy very petitioners to
sign on to this petition. I'm going to come to
a piece that was over at the Charlotte Observer about
the suspicious timing of all this. No, it's not suspicious timing.
McFadden wouldn't say if he was going to run for reelection, right,
He kept hemming and hauling about it before the holidays. Oh,
I'm not sure. I'm going to go down to Macbee,
South Carolina for the family reunion and all of that,
and we'll go down to our family home and we'll
pray about it and all of this. So he was
he was not saying if he was going to run again.
There's a March primary, and so now that he's going
to run again, that's the now the petition got filed.
So the timing does not seem suspicious to me. Anyway,
back to the DA's press release here. For decades, other
prosecutorial authorities, both state and federal, have developed policies restricting
the advancement of any prosecution of public officers within close
proximity of them. Standing for election. Yeah, and that's how
we ended up with Pat Cannon becoming the mayor of
the City of Charlotte while being investigated for bribery and corruption.
And then when he won because the public didn't know
he was under this investigation, then he wins and then
you arrest him, not the day they were federal charges,
but then they arrest him, and now we have no mayor,
and now we have to have what an appointment, right,
that's how we got the Democrat Party. They got to
appoint a replacement and then a special election gets held.
That's a cost to the taxpayers. You could have just
told us that you had this guy on video in
a hotel room taking cash and like flitting through the
dollar bills. You know, Oh, I love the breeze of
the dollar bills on my face. Like you could have
told us that before the election. Yeah. I'm not a
big fan of this rule. Like I understand, you know,
the intent behind it is, like, well, we don't want
to influence the election. Yeah, I would prefer to know
the information if our if our city councilman, mayoral candidate
is under federal investigation is about to be indicted. I'd
prefer to know that before the election. I feel like
that's a pretty critical piece of information, you know. Nevertheless,
the statement from the DIA goes on to say, our
removal statute creates obligations for the district Attorney or the
county attorney, if he so chooses. I don't know who
the he is there. I don't know if it's the
If it's the county attorney, is the he and he
gets to choose, or if it's the DA, who is
the he who gets to choose who takes the case up?
But he is correct. The state law requires you to
bring this investigation forward. It requires it. It says shall,
It's not may, you shall. So whatever your thoughts are
about not wanting to get involved in any of this
investigation or litigating this petition with the March primary coming up,
McFadden is in the primary, it doesn't matter. You have
to do it. In this office, a substantive review of
any allegations will typically come only after a state or
local law enforcement agency has had an opportunity to investigate
any reported claims. Accordingly, before an approval determination comes from
this office. I will, in my discretion, request that the
State Bureau of Investigation investigate each allegation and report its
findings to my office directly. So it sounds like he
doesn't want to take lead on this, so he wants
all of the evidence presented before he goes forward with it.
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attorney's news release that he sent out saying that he
has kicked the removal petition against Sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden.
He has kicked it over to the State Bureau of
Investigations because of the allegations in the letter, he says,
in your review to this is the he's sending to
the Special Agent in charge of the SBI. In your
review of the petition, you will note that a number
of criminal violations are alleged, which I'm requesting to be
investigated as well, including the following state campaign finance violations,
Hatch Act violations, extortion and bribery, economic threats made to
influence legislation, and then he he notes, in the event
it impacts, where the investigation may be assigned, I want
you to be aware. One of the petitioners is former
North Carolina SBI Southern Piedmont District Special Agent in Charge
Kevin Knty, who was formerly your colleague. No. I interviewed
Kevin Canny. Kevin Canty came from the SBI. He had
a long career at the SBI, well respected, went to
work for McFadden, lasted nine months, quit, wrote the public letter.
His successor came in, he lasted nine months quit. He
too wrote a public letter where they outlined all of
the outrageous behavior of the sheriff. A lot of it
is detailed in the petition to remove McFadden. It says
McFadden misused official resource in his management of dignitary duty.
Dignitary duty refers to the use of on duty sheriff's
deputies and other official resources to escort and protect public
figures and VIPs okay specifically on information and belief. McFadden
directed deputies on dignitary duty to pick up officials at
the National Sheriff's Association who were in town for a conference.
National Sheriff's Association in Charlotte. Dignitary duty assigned to these deputies,
and McFadden directed these deputies to drive the Sheriff's Association members.
So these are sheriffs and their entourages, I guess to
drive these officials around Charlotte to bars and strip clubs.
The deputies did as instructed they were on duty and
used Mecklinberg County Sheriff's Office vehicles while driving the officials
to the bars and strip clubs. I'm no prude, but
I don't think that's appropriate. I don't think that the
local sheriff's office needs to be running an uber service
to strip clubs. Why are we paying the freight for that?
Why are we paying the cost for that. McFadden also
misused official resources in connection with travel. On information and belief,
McFadden has used the county credit cards to pay for
upgrades on hotel rooms and flights. This is in violation
of policy requiring economy class travel. On information and belief,
McFadden has used vehicles for personal travel, including driving to
his wife's family reunion in South Carolina. McFadden has also
misused a f resources for the benefit of friends and
political supporters, Specifically on information and belief. Nickfadden has ordered
patrol deputies to check on the businesses of his friends
and supporters, even if those deputies would ordinarily be doing
something more pressing. Normally, these businesses would need to hire
off duty law enforcement to obtain a similar level of service.
Once again, those are taxpayer funded cruisers and personnel, and
he's sending them to his friends and political supporters' places.
Then there is his weaponization of the Office of Professional Compliance,
which is basically the internal affairs division inside the Sheriff's office.
McFadden directed this office to initiate investigations of deputies, detention officers,
and civilian staff based on his personal animosity towards them
when there was no suspicion of any actual misconduct. So
he's initiating internal affairs investigations against people inside his own outfit.
I mentioned this yesterday. It's in the petition. When he
took over, there was twice as many employees as there
are now. Right now, I think there's like seven hundred
and seventy employees, and when he took over, I think
there was like thirteen hundred. People don't want to work
for him. This is what the people who are quitting
are telling the media. Again, this has been known for years.
But it's not his fault. He'll tell you. That's what
he says about all these allegations. None of this stuff
is his fault. Okay, he used a racial slur, but
that wasn't his fault. It was that, according to him,
he got flustrated. He was flustrated by his command staff
not doing what he told them to do, or not
being loyal enough. And that was his real problem, was
that he he trusted people and then they stabbed him
in the back and he got frustrated, and that's why
he needed to use the racial epithet. Not his faults.
Hey McFadden intervened in at least two internal affairs investigations
to protect a field training officer as well as a major,
because they were both loyal to him, they were in
his good graces. In the first incident, internal affairs found
that the field training officer at the issue had falsified
a doctor's note, which would normally be a firing offense.
McFadden personally appeared at the hearing and refused to allow
the review board to recommend the officer's termination despite the
board's finding of the falsification of the doctor's note. As
a result, the Sheriff's office became saddled with an officer
who became effectively unswearable in court, right because that's part
of their record. And so now if you try to
call this person like something happens at the jail. You
need them to testify. You can't because they're impeachable because
there's a finding that they falsified the doctor's note, so
you cannot put them on the stand. That's why it's
a fireable offense. They were unswearable in court and no
longer suitable for field duty, all because McFadden wanted to
protect a dishonest employee who was personally loyal to him.
In the second incident, a major, also a favorite of McFadden's,
was accused of being complicit in allowing a field training
officer to falsify the time records. The Internal Affairs found
there was substantial evidence to support her involvement, but McFadden
came to her hearing and would not allow the Internal
Affairs panel to sustain the allegation, nor would he allow
them to demote or terminate her. The major was also
allowed to ridicule and disrespect her supervisor during the hearing
without any admonishment. This major then sat on the Internal
Affairs hearing panel for the field training officer who had
falsified the doctor's note, and she sided with McFadden not
determinate the employee and then McFadden promoted this major to
the position of chief. This is corruption. What these allegations
spell out is corruption. All right, if you're listening to
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it makes sense that McFadden would keep the unswearable deputy
if I recall correctly. Not my fault. McFadden is also
unswearable due to past conduct as a CMPD officer. Yes,
I believe, I believe that is correct. Kevin says, I
worked at CMPD for thirty years and there were a
lot of people like McFadden. They jockey and politic for
prestigious positions because they want to dress fancy and feel
important rather than do the job. Once they get the position,
they can't help but abuse it because they think they
are untouchable, and in a lot of cases they are.
Jim says past Mecklenburg sheriff CW. Kid was taking prisoners
to the beach to work on his motel back in
the eighties. Wow, that was before my time, but that
would not surprise me. On the text line, Anthony says
the state of Connecticut did away with the election of
sheriffs due to just what you are talking about, patronage
and the like. The grumpy major says, you talked about
deputies being unusable in court due to their internal affairs record.
McFadden falls into that scene group due to internal affairs
investigations while at CMPD. It's called the Giglio rule, and
guess what it was his fault. I love it when
you go to call your county commissioner who's supposed to
represent you. In my case, Vilma Leak. She doesn't have
any voicemail on the phone number. She doesn't take any calls.
I've called her a couple of times over the last
six or seven years and told her that McFadden is
a problem, it needs to be audited, and she has
never called me back. We aren't being represented by people
who care about the people who are voting for them.
They only care about the people who pay the bills.
And that's the worst part about this city is nothing
here gets done because we don't have enough money to
influence the people who need to do the things. Yeah,
I mean, this is part of the concern, is that. Yeah,
I mean, you get this guy out, but then, you know,
is the new boss the same as the old boss?
You know? Let me get Alex on real quick. Hello Alex,
welcome to the show. Happy, Hey, I'm good. What's up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to say I was born and
raised in Charlotte, and I still live here, and over
the years have seen this city and this state put
people in positions of power who are so crooked. There's
still to stink off a dog turd, no.
Speaker 1: Man, oh, I say, okay, well, thank you, Alex. It
does seem like it's gotten worse. Charlotte used to have
a record and was proud of its record of being
a clean government city, and that has taken the beating
over the last ten to fifteen years or so. From
the petition. Marcia Crenshaw Hill. She was an employee of
the Sheriff's office for thirteen years. A sergeant, she worked
in the detention center. She observed that when officers were
assaulted by inmates, the inmates were not charged, and if
charges were ever filed, they were dropped for unclear or
spurious reasons, all involving allegations of fault on the part
of the victim. In other words, the officer. Crenshaw Hill
observed that the frequency of weapons, drugs, and contraband in
the jail increased significantly after McFadden took office. She saw
how McFadden changed policies and his non enforcement of and
add hoc exceptions or case by case on the fly
exceptions to existing policies created unsafe conditions in the jail.
For example, before McFadden, inmates in single cell confinement, in
other words, they're placed in a cell alone, usually for
disciplinary or safety reasons. They Before McFadden, these people were
not allowed to have pencils or soda bottles or cans.
That's a standard correctional policy because prisoners could and sometimes
did harm themselves with these items or make them into weapons.
McFadden relaxed these policies to appease inmates and the inmates families.
I honestly think this is the key here. I think
it's the families of the inmates and the people that
go through the jail, the residents. Right this whole kid
glove euphemistic treatment that he gives the inmates, and he
gives them his personal cell phone number, gives the families
of the inmates his cell phone number, and then they
call him directly to complain about anything that goes wrong
in the jail against their son or daughter or family member,
like oh, they're sleeping on they're sleeping on the floor,
and how dare you let them sleep on the floor
and all this and so then he makes exceptions for them.
And I think he sees the families and the innates
as his constituency. I think this is the key. I
think that he is expecting their support for him, which
makes sense if you have a regular jail population, like
most of the crimes are committed by you know, a
limited cent of the population. But if all of those
criminals that keep getting re arrested, you get all of
their families to keep voting for you as sheriff because
like in the past, I remember talking to former Sheriff
Jim Pendograph when Democrats activists tried to go into the
jail to register voters in his jail, and he was
like no, he was like, generally speaking, inmates in the
jail aren't hot to trot to vote for the sheriff.
But what if you flip that dynamic, What if you
cater to the inmates and their families, right, wouldn't that
redound to your electoral benefit. Before McFadden, inmates would lose
visitation rights if they violated rules. Now, if jail officials
restrict visitation in response, to inmates misbehavior, the jailers worry
that McFadden is going to overrule them to appease the
inmates and the families. Prisoners then increased their hoarding of
contraband because they believed McFadden would allow them to have it,
despite policies to the contrary. As a result, crenshaw Hill
observed that inmates became more emboldened to hoard contraband and
break jail rules. In twenty twenty, crenshaw Hill was stabbed
in the neck by an inmate inside that inmate's cell.
They were doing an inspection a shakedown looking for contraband.
The wound missed her artery narrowly that would have killed her. Okay,
despite an inmate attempting to murder her, McFadden was never
willing to lay fault with that inmate, always and only
with blaming his own employees. In communications with others, McFadden
blamed crenshaw Hill, not the inmate. McFadden contended that crenshaw
Hill had violated a policy by entering the inmate's cell.
In fact, crenshaw Hill had not violated any such policy
by entering the cell for the contraband search because she
had a supervisor and multiple other deputies with her, as
the policy required. Crenshaw Hill was out of work on
workers' comp for over a year. At the end of
the year, she was fired. Kevin Canty, former chief deputy.
He witnessed McFadden initiate internal investigations into employees who had
done nothing wrong simply because McFadden appeared to dislike them
or did not view them as personally loyal to him.
McFadden pressured Canty into recommending that the Sheriff's office that
he fired the head of HR and the director of
business Operations, even though Kanty said they had done nothing wrong.
McFadden could have terminated them based on their act Will status,
but he didn't want to do it himself. He wanted
Canty to do it. He wanted a sock puppets report
from a subordinate finding that they committed misconduct. And when
Kanty didn't do it, that's when he was at odds
with McFadden, and then he quit and he told us
all about that story when he was in studio with us.
Then there's Juan Delgado, an officer from four through twenty
twenty two, and he witnessed McFadden make verbal in person
promises to inmates inconsistent with security policies, but he never
would change the policies. McFadden could change the policies, but
he never would. He would just give these exceptions, these
case by case ad hoc decisions, and then the jailers
come in and they're like, well, no, we're following the policies,
And then McFadden comes down on the jailers. Is it
any wonder why he's lost about half of his staff?
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the petition seeking the removal of MECKLAMURK County Sheriff Gary
not my fault McFadden. One of the petitioners, Juan Delgado,
twenty year veteran of the sheriff's office. He witnessed McFadden
make oral in person promises to inmates inconsistent with security policies. Then,
when McFadden left the jail after making those promises, Delgado
and the line deputies under him would have to explain
to now irate and sometimes violent inmates that staff were
going to follow the written policies until they were changed.
So think about this scenario, right, you got an inmate
who's acting up but has somehow, you know, had some
interaction with not my fault McFadden in the past, and
he has gotten McFadden's phone number and gave the phone
number to the inmates family. And so mcfatten and is
now kind of buddy chump pals with the inmate. And
McFadden says, fine, fine, you can carry the contraband you
can violate the policy. We'll let you get away with it. Whatever.
So now you're the jailer, and now you got this
inmate who is saying, I get to do this thing.
You can't tell me what to do. I got the
sheriff on my side, and the jailer says, no, we're
following the policy until the sheriff changes the policy. And
the policy has not been changed. So we are following
the policy, which then angers the inmate. Now the inmate
is mad at the jailer. You can see how this
creates a dangerous workplace for these jailers. Delgado also witnessed
McFadden make oral in person promises to deputies that were
inconsistent with policies without actually changing those policies. Delgado was
informed by inmates that McFadden gave out his personal phone
number to them and their families. When inmates broke prison
rules and were disciplined according to the policy, they and
their families would call the sheriff directly to complain. McFadden
then blamed the middle managers like Delgado, or the rank
and file employees for enforcing jail policies. McFadden possessed authority
to change jail policies that he disliked, but he didn't
do so. He simply reacted to complaints by inmates and
family members on an ad hoc basis, again a case
by case basis. Because Delgado insisted on following jail policies
as written without these exceptions, he attracted McFadden's wrath. Shortly
before his retirement, McFadden summoned Delgado into his office and
threatened him, saying, quote, I am going to get you.
Delgado retired shortly thereafter. Then there is the petitioner, Brian Adams.
Brian Adams retired after thirty years of service as a
major in the Sheriff's office. Each year the Sheriff's office
conducts a promotional process for individuals looking to get a promotion.
Candidates have to pass all of the phases of the
process in order to be considered for the promotion. The
first phase is a written test. Everybody has to score
a seventy or above in order to advance to phase two.
If they fail the written exam, then they automatically are disqualified.
But McFadden undermines the process and promotes those who are
in his favor. While in charge of training, Adams witnessed
McFadden routinely circumvent policies that he disliked regarding the promotion
and training process. Even though McFadden had substantial authority to
change policies and regulations regarding these promotions, he never did so. Rather,
he simply he ignored the policies in an ad hoc
fashion in order to hire and promote the candidates that
he personally preferred. He valued candidates for hiring and promotion
based on their loyalty to him personally, not on their
qualifications or job performance. And by the way he has
said this, he has said this repeatedly in interviews that
his demands for loyalty like he wants people around him
that are loyal to sheriff. Make sure they're loyal to
the sheriff. In all of this, he says, there's a
quote of McFadden's if you want to eat, you have
to provide something, and that if they wanted to advance,
they needed to stay on quote team Sheriff. What McFadden
meant by this was that employees needed to demonstrate personal
loyalty to him by going outside the chain of command
and reporting to McFadden personally about their coworkers and supervisors.
That would help them remain in his good graces and
to be considered for promotions and desirable assignments. Thus, Adams
and others watched McFadden develop a culture of internal informants,
which predictably rendered much of the Sheriff's office workforce paranoid
and afraid to question anything the sheriff said or did,
even when misguided or unethical. McFadden also developed a culture
in which personal loyalty to him was the paramount value
in policies and procedures designed to protect staff were routinely
ignored based on his personal whims. McFadden promoted one deputy
detention officer to a sergeant within six months of her
being hired. Because she was on Team Sheriff, she acted
as a de facto informant. This deputy was not prepared
for the demands of being a sergeant and was later
demoted because she was overwhelmed by the work. He promoted
an unqualified sergeant to captain because she was on Team Sheriff.
This deputy had failed the captain's exam. Adam's training department
removed her from the captain training program. McFadden, though, intervened,
insisting shed be reinstated and continue in the training program,
which had never been done before. This same sergeant later
arrived late to a training exercise that would have been
disqualifying for her, but no McFadden again intervened to insist
that the training department schedule a makeup session for her
and her alone, never been done before. When reviewing candidates
for promotion to captain, McFadden insisted that this sergeant would
be promoted over several other qualified candidates who had passed
the written exam and had completed the required training without incident.
McFadden promoted this candidate over better qualified competitors because of
her perceived loyalty to him. Again, the word for this
is corruption. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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