Jim Kephart for House 74
Against Waste - Fraud - Abuse
In Order to Revitalize & Grow our Community

SITE LINKS
INFORMATION
HOME PAGE
Contact Info
URA Housing Scam
Phoenix Building
URA
Sidewalk Scam
URA Parking Garage Scam 1
URA Parking Garage Scam 2
URA Property
Tax Scam
URA Financial Reporting & Audit Scam
URA Administrative Expense & Funds Scam
What Can The URA Do For Butte?
Economic Development
Butte-Silver Bow 
& MT State
Legislative Items
Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners Reform
   
RESOURCES
URA Map
(right-click to download if not viewable)
Jim Kephart
Resume & Bio

Fraud Waste-Abuse at Butte-Silver Parking Garage

$8M*** BSB GARAGE CONTRACT WAS GIVEN TO *SLETTEN* CONSTRUCTION ... By BSB “HEAD OF TIFIDS” … KRISTEN *SLETTEN*-ROSA ... [*she is also assistant to KAREN BYRNES-BSB’s “DIRECTOR” of URA & BSB Head of Economic Development.] ... FOR A ***$5M GARAGE
   

INSIDER DEAL - HUGE FRAUD/WASTE/ABUSE $ by URA

I-P.1-MCA 7-15-4239 

a) EXPRESS CONFLICT REQUIREMENTS---if a BSB or URA employee has a conflict (SLETTEN Construction is Kristen SLETTEN-Rosa’s family’s company. Her BROTHER did this work) … MANY laws forbid this…including 7-15-4239, which is specific to TIFIDS like URA.

b) 4239-1(b) REQUIRES FULL DISCLOSURE OF ANY INTEREST (to URA Board &BSB Council…in WRITING and placed in MINUTES. [These NEVER happened.]

c) 4239-2 REQUIRES that “conflict of interest” MUST be disclosed IN WRITING by conflicted staffer-and staffer CANNOT participate in anything.

d) Add’l requirements on full discussion and then a WAIVER of conflict, using independent expert, are elsewhere in MT code AND IRS regs.)

II-P.2 -Attorney follow up on Rick Chappel’s (long ignored) 9/10/18 FOIA/records request for copy of REQUIRED disclosure by Kristen *SLETTEN* Rosa (disclosure battle=10/9/18-1/9/19)

III-P.2&3- ILLEGAL DEMANDS (by Eileen Joyce AND Karen Byrnes) …for over $600 to find and copy a NONEXISTENT DISCLOSURE. 
[BTW, MT Supreme Ct. says such huge “cost upfront” demands on “research & copy” fees are illegal under Open Records law; see Victory Ins. v. MT SOS Stapleton.]

IV-P.3KAREN BYRNES ADMITS NO DISCLOSURE EVER GIVEN BY HER-OR KRISTEN *SLETTEN*-ROSA (BSB Head of Tifids)-ABOUT THIS HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

V-P.4-My 5/23/18 letter to Dave Palmer, BSB Commissioners, & URA board complaining about URA/KRISTEN SLETTEN/KAREN BYRNES all breaking law/ (esp. on conflict of interest) and related/continuing HUGE excess costs at BSB garage of “insider” deal.

V-P.5-Specific info that BSB garage is highest$-per-spot in NW USA.

VI-P.6-my follow up REMINDER about my prior complaints on related fraud, waste, and/or abuse by Karen Byrnes involving BSB garage and Phoenix Building garage next door.  

    

Click Links Below to See Proofs
(not viewable using Firefox, right-click to download if not viewable)

GARAGE PROOF 1   |   GARAGE PROOFS 2

        

Copyright © 2019-23  |  All Rights Reserved  |  Jim Kephart