On
June 24, 2010 Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball said of the primary Attorney General
Henry McMaster had just lost in his bid to be governor: “ If politics is entertainment then South
Carolina has become Broadway.”
What
Larry didn’t report was that McMaster
was also starring in the James Brown Opera. Opera because the only way to
follow its twists and turns is with both
a plot summary AND supertitles. Here’s the plot summary:
ACT
I: AUGUST, RICHLAND COUNTY [2007]
AG McMaster, in the person of Sr. Assistant Sonny Jones, is invited by David Cannon and Buddy Dallas to enter the James Brown case. He does so. On a white horse. With the Georgia AG at his side. They sound the cry:
We must rid ourselves of Bob Buchanan and
Adele Pope. They have ousted
the innocent
David Cannon. They have done so to get
the $5 million commission
on Brown’s $100 million Estate. They will aid non-wife Tommie Rae
Hynie and
the
clients of Louis Levenson.
Grandson Forlando and AG McMaster appear on television to denounce Bob
&
Adele. Grandson also files a federal lawsuit to
paralyze the “I Feel Good” Trust.
But the
millions Cannon took begin to be a problem. The AG – now wanting to be
governor - can fix that. He will make everyone
happy. Except the needy students James
Brown created the “I Feel Good” Trust to benefit. He will:
1.
Take control of Brown’s assets, and install his own
trustee;
2.
Give ¼ of the “I Feel Good” Trust to the non-wife
and put her and a non-son in control of Federal Copyright Termination Rights
elections;
3.
Give another
¼ to Levenson’s clients, fewer than half of Brown’s claimed children -- ignoring the DNA-proven children, and others.
ACT 1
ends with AG McMaster, Hynie and
Levenson proclaiming that they “speak as one.”
Bob and Adele are banished for suggesting this is not good for the “I
Feel Good” Trust. Or private property
rights. Or private philanthropy in South
Carolina.
ACT
II RICHLAND COUNTY [2010 -2103]
But there are two problems. The banished Bob & Adele have
appealed. And giving half of Brown’s $80
million charitable foundation to non-charities does create issues. No problem.
The AG’s trustee will produce – actually, not produce -- a secret
appraisal. Brown’s worldwide music empire will be declared to be worth under $4.7 million.
And
the State and Hynie will stop the appeal by suing Bob and Adele for tens of
millions of dollars. For loss to a $4.7
million empire? No problem.
The new AG and his trustee will tell the State Supreme Court that Bob and
Adele have committed the federal felony of overstating the value of Brown’s
assets by $79 million to the IRS. Why? To get that $5 million commission. On a $5 million estate. That will fix them.
Cannon
will not be jailed. He will not be required to return the missing millions. He is needed. He is the State’s witness
against Bob and Adele in the suit another previously-aspiring governor, Kenneth
Wingate, is pursing against Bob and Adele for the State.
ACT
III RICHLAND, AIKEN COUNTIES [2013 -2014]
The S.
C. Supreme Court voids the AG’s deal on May 8, 2013. There is hope for the needy students. But, no.
On May 29 Hynie
and Levenson ask the court to reinstate the AG’s settlement. Hearing this, the
AG withdraws -- abandoning the “I Feel Good” Trust he has dismembered. Hynie, her lawyers and Levenson smile. They may yet recover the $31 million AG McMaster gave them.
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It all began in August 2007
when Buddy Dallas and David Cannon asked AG McMaster to help save them – and the “I
Feel Good” Trust – from Bob and me.
Confident their plan would succeed,
on August 16, 2007 David Cannon wired $866,000 to Roatan Island --to complete
his turnkey retirement mansion. He had bought his $200,000 lot
just after Brown died.
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