The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating an unnamed member of the Greensboro City Council; however, according to several sources, that investigation is not related to the SBI investigation of former Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts, who retired suddenly at the start of July.
Though SBI officials have not said which City Council member is under investigation, many people have surmised that it may be Councilmember Zack Matheny due to a lot of recent discussion of potential conflicts of interest and other concerns regarding his role as the president of Downtown Greensboro Inc. in conjunction with his position on the Greensboro City Council.
For about two decades, George Hartzman, a Greensboro tax consultant and financial planner, has been providing local news outlets and government officials with information on what he sees as wrongdoing by city leaders and others. Sometimes there has been something to those claims; sometimes they have turned out to be dead ends. In recent months, Hartzman has been sending a flurry of emails to multiple news outlets – including the Rhino Times – as well as to law enforcement officials, government attorneys, Downtown Greensboro Inc. board members and many others regarding his concerns about Matheny and other DGI issues…