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Investment adviser pleads guilty to stealing $1M from clients
Posted: Sep. 9, 2009
Raleigh, N.C. — A Raleigh man who once ran for state treasurer and a seat in General Assembly pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $1 million from his investor clients.
Christopher Brooks Mintz, 34, pleaded guilty to fraud by an investment adviser. He will be sentenced on Dec. 7.
Mintz worked as a financial adviser in Cary and was a representative of a Boston-based brokerage, where he maintained accounts for his clients and himself, authorities said. Between December 2005 and last October, he embezzled more than $1 million from the brokerage accounts of with two elderly clients, authorities said.
"Financial advisers trusted with control over their clients’s property owe those clients great duties of care," U.S. Attorney George Holding said in a statement.
Mintz lost to Rep. Ty Harrell in the 2006 Democratic primary. He also briefly ran for treasurer in 2007 before dropping out of the race.
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Harrell faces ethics probe
The Democrat's campaign finances are in question after heavy activity in a nonelection year.
RALEIGH -- House Speaker Joe Hackney on Wednesday ordered an ethics investigation of Democratic Rep. Ty Harrell, a second-term Raleigh legislator, over his campaign finances.
Hackney's request came after the State Board of Elections began an audit of Harrell's campaign expenses and after Harrell corrected information in his financial disclosure form.
Meanwhile, Harrell acknowledged Wednesday that he has been living outside his district, District 41, for at least a month. State law allows members of the legislature to live outside their district as long as they intend to move back into their district.
Harrell said he has been living at a friend's house in North Raleigh, more than four miles from his district. Harrell's wife, Melanie Dupon, sued him for divorce in July over an alleged extramarital affair.
Harrell said he was trying to secure a permanent residence back in his district and planned to move back "within a reasonable time period, as soon as possible."
Hackney, a Chapel Hill Democrat, announced his plans to have the Legislative Ethics Committee look into Harrell's campaign finances about an hour after meeting with Harrell.
And The Media Establishment Attack continues on Harrell?
State wants information from Harrell
RALEIGH -- The State Board of Elections has asked Rep. Ty Harrell, a Raleigh Democrat, for more than 200 pieces of information about his campaign expenses.
Board officials are auditing Harrell's campaign expenses and dispatched a letter to Harrell's treasurer, Joseph Slaton, Thursday asking for details on why, for starters, the campaign account balance was $7,000 higher at the beginning of 2009 than at the end of 2008. Board auditor Joe Patton also asked for details on more than 200 expenses during the past three years that were listed with vague explanations such as "candidate obligation" and "donor cultivation."
Gary Bartlett, the board's executive director, described the number of items requested as unusually large.
Dozens of the expenses in question are at restaurants during a period when Harrell's only reported source of income was his nearly $14,000 legislative salary. Other curious listings include $235 to a pricey children's clothing store and $191 to Sharon Luggage, with both
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3 N&O Hit Pieces On Harrell In One Week?
Probe of Harrell heartens his 2008 GOP foe
With Democratic state Rep. Ty Harrell facing questions about his use of campaign money, his Republican challenger is considering another run at him.
Apex Town Councilman Bryan Gossage says he is taking a careful look at challenging Harrell again in 2010.
"Our message last year was that the liberal tax, borrow, and spend policies of the incumbent were wrong for the district and wrong for the state," Gossage said in a statement. "Unfortunately, higher taxes and unemployment numbers are some of the best proof of that."
Probe of Harrell heartens his 2008 GOP foe In 2008, Harrell defeated Gossage 54 percent to 46 percent in a strongly Democratic year. The district, which includes parts of Apex and Cary, is regarded as a swing district. Harrell won the district in 2006 by defeating six-term Republican Russell Capps.
The State Board of Elections and the Legislative Ethics Committee are investigating Harrell's use of campaign money.
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