During the Lake Central High School referendum, it was very clear that the administration was cheating. They were using school employees and school property to get out the vote.
Unfortunately, the Lake County Election Board has refused to do anything about it.
Interestingly, the Democrat Attorney for the Election Board is Jim Weiser, who just so happens to be on the board of People's Bank, which is the lead bank in the financing consortium that funded the expansion. Conflict of interest? You bet.
It just so happens that executives of People's Bank were all over this thing, running the "Friends of Lake Central" organization that got out the vote with the help of the school administration and its employees and facilities.
This is the other side of the building trades coin. While the building trades run Lake County, they do so with the collusion of the banks like People's Bank. And, of course, with Democrat insiders like Jim Weiser.
Lake County corruption never ceases to amaze me.
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Lake Central hired Unicom Arc to determine why the 2009 referendum failed. Those findings showed low level support for athletic stadiums and additional parking lots. When the Stuperintendent Harry Vertacco gave his presentations to the public (May 19 and 23, 2011) along with Assistant Stuperintendent Al Gadafi they told the public that only a building was needed because of overcrowding and deteriation. They even showed a video presentation that showed only a building was sought. Afterwards members of the audience asked what would happen to the track where the proposed building would be built. Nervously Al Gadafi looked at Harry Vertacco and said that it would unfortunately need to be relocated to Clark Middle School. He never mentioned further that it would be back at the High School when the new football stadium is built. Their presentations and statements were purposely misleading because they knew of theses were failures for the 2009 referendum. You mention the ties to Peoples Bank which are also interesting. Their CEO, Joel Gorlich, is the president of the LC athletic boosters. His son Jeremy also employed by Peoples Bank is the treasurer for the LC Politcal Action Committee. Todd Scheub, son of Gerry Scheub, is a chief lending officer at Peoples. You have already mentioned Jim Wiesers connection. The Lake Central fraud gets deeper. The amount is for 160 million before interest is figured. Whoever purchases the bonds, possibly Peoples Bank stands to make a lot of money of the interest. Also interesting are the resignations and retirements that have taken place since the 2011 referendum was announced. Superintendent Gerald Chabot, Lake Central Principal Robert McDermott, Protsman Principal Jack Thomas and most recently Peoples CEO Joel Gorlich.
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