He is credited for luring tourists to Dothan, but this man's job hangs in the balance because he lied to obtain a loan.
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. -A presentence investigation that will sway the judge who punishes Dothan’s top tourism official is complete.
Visit Dothan President and CEO Aaron McCreight has admitted defrauding an Iowa bank while he headed Go Cedar Rapids, a tourism group similar to Visit Dothan.McCreight hopes to instead receive probation, despite manufacturing false revenue projections to obtain a loan for Newbo Evolve, a music and arts festival staged by Go Cedar Rapids that flopped. He is not implicated of personally profiting from the loan.
Following the three-day event the bank got stiffed for $2.3 million, its president got fired, vendors didn’t get paid and McCreight was sent packing.Visit Dothan’s Board of Directors stands by McCreight, praising his success in luring tourists. “The Board reached this decision after careful consideration of the present facts and circumstances surrounding the 2018 music festival event held during his tenure at Go Cedar Rapids in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where Aaron has now admitted guilt expressed remorse,” per a statement that followed his indictment.The presentence investigation is a sealed document and cannot be viewed by the public.
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