09 October 2019

Affinity Fraud: How It Works

There's something about the two words 'TRUST ME' used by Jeff McVay, the City of Mesa's Director of Downtown Transformation, at a public meeting of the Planning & Zoning Board on September 25, 2019 for a Site Review in a zoning case that would allow "a university campus and a public plaza" in what is called Mesa City Center, better recognized for years as two parking lots adjacent to a Bureau of Land Management Conversion Grant Landscaping Project on Pepper Place. It's now a 360-Degree Dilemma *.
Here's a story, perhaps coincidental, where those two words "TRUST ME" are used - from a case last year in Kaysville, Utah (a predominantly LDS community 20 miles north of Salt Lake City) involving the U.S. Department of Justice in a fraud scheme using money given from friends and fellow church members, requiring the help of attorneys and bankers.    
Here in Downtown Mesa it is using taxpayer money that takes it to the next level . . . 
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Another Former LDS Stake President Indicted for Affinity Fraud