May 17, 2007
ROBERT LIPSCOMB AND LEMOYNE OWEN COLLEGE SINKHOLE
It is interesting to revisit an open records request that I sent to Sara Hall in 2005. It was concerning Robert Lipscomb and his salaries at the Housing and Community Development Department and the Memphis Housing Authority. His name has surfaced again with his recent proposal to donate $1 million per year for three years to LeMoyne Owen College. He is a graduate of that college.
The public’s reaction to this $3 million dollar bottomless hole is that it should not be done as this is a private college and like other private colleges and institutions, they should fail or survive on their own. However, given the past performance by the City Council, the proposals passage has good possibilities. The Mayor cannot spare money for more police but he can throw money down this bottomless pit.
I have attached the October 12, 2005 letter from Sara Hall explaining Robert Lipscomb’s salary arrangement allowing him to earn more than the Mayor. Also look at the payment to Robert Spence and Ricky Wilkins, special friends of the Mayor. Also I have attached an article reporting on the discovery of seventeen boxes of Beale Street documents found locked in a closet at the Offices of Housing and Community Development at 701 N. Main which of course was headed by Robert Lipscomb. Not one red cent has been collected from John Elkington or Beale Street by the City in all the years of the Herenton Administration.
Click here to read about Robert Lipscomb's combined jobs and salaries allowing him to earn more than the Mayor and Ricky Wilkins and Robert Spence's legal fee bonanza courtesy of the Mayor
Click here to read about Robert Lipscomb's combined jobs and salaries allowing him to earn more than the Mayor and Ricky Wilkins and Robert Spence's legal fee bonanza courtesy of the Mayor
ROBERT LIPSCOMB AND LEMOYNE OWEN COLLEGE SINKHOLE
It is interesting to revisit an open records request that I sent to Sara Hall in 2005. It was concerning Robert Lipscomb and his salaries at the Housing and Community Development Department and the Memphis Housing Authority. His name has surfaced again with his recent proposal to donate $1 million per year for three years to LeMoyne Owen College. He is a graduate of that college.
The public’s reaction to this $3 million dollar bottomless hole is that it should not be done as this is a private college and like other private colleges and institutions, they should fail or survive on their own. However, given the past performance by the City Council, the proposals passage has good possibilities. The Mayor cannot spare money for more police but he can throw money down this bottomless pit.
I have attached the October 12, 2005 letter from Sara Hall explaining Robert Lipscomb’s salary arrangement allowing him to earn more than the Mayor. Also look at the payment to Robert Spence and Ricky Wilkins, special friends of the Mayor. Also I have attached an article reporting on the discovery of seventeen boxes of Beale Street documents found locked in a closet at the Offices of Housing and Community Development at 701 N. Main which of course was headed by Robert Lipscomb. Not one red cent has been collected from John Elkington or Beale Street by the City in all the years of the Herenton Administration.
Click here to read about Robert Lipscomb's combined jobs and salaries allowing him to earn more than the Mayor and Ricky Wilkins and Robert Spence's legal fee bonanza courtesy of the Mayor
Click here to read about Robert Lipscomb's combined jobs and salaries allowing him to earn more than the Mayor and Ricky Wilkins and Robert Spence's legal fee bonanza courtesy of the Mayor
posted by watchdog at
1:25 PM
3 Comments:
Before moving over to MHA, Lipscomb was the chief financial officer at LeMoyne-Owen who helped LOC along to continued financial insanity. Under his watch there were scams concerning students using their student loans to buy cars, officers of the college getting fired for embezzlement, etc. How come Lipscomb couldn't fix this situation when he was there? Now, he wants the Memphis taxpayers to bail the school out, which is a magnet for corrupt officers and poorly run financial officers?
Bottomless pit...
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Anonymous, at 7:24 PM
Which members of the council voted for this funding? Is there anywhere I can find out? Thanks.
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