Easleys got break on coastal lot
The price was cut 25 percent, documents show. The Easleys' spokesman says the deal was legit.
(News & Observer) - Gov. Mike Easley and his wife, Mary, accepted a $137,000 discount on a coastal waterfront lot they bought in 2005, months after Easley's administration granted environmental permits to the developer of the Carteret County subdivision.
Easley did not report the 25 percent price break from R.A. North Development, on his state ethics disclosure forms; and his closing attorney, the mayor of Beaufort, did not report the discounted price on the deed registered with the county. It was recorded at the original sales price of $549,880.
The closing documents, obtained by The News & Observer, contradict what Easley's representatives have said for years. In 2006, while Easley was still in office, his spokeswoman Cari Boyce said the Easleys didn't get a special deal. "The governor paid the listed asking price for the lot," she said at the time. "The price was set and non-negotiable."
(News & Observer) - Gov. Mike Easley and his wife, Mary, accepted a $137,000 discount on a coastal waterfront lot they bought in 2005, months after Easley's administration granted environmental permits to the developer of the Carteret County subdivision.
Easley did not report the 25 percent price break from R.A. North Development, on his state ethics disclosure forms; and his closing attorney, the mayor of Beaufort, did not report the discounted price on the deed registered with the county. It was recorded at the original sales price of $549,880.
The closing documents, obtained by The News & Observer, contradict what Easley's representatives have said for years. In 2006, while Easley was still in office, his spokeswoman Cari Boyce said the Easleys didn't get a special deal. "The governor paid the listed asking price for the lot," she said at the time. "The price was set and non-negotiable."
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