Lawyer defends official’s role in wooing Scripps [South Florida]
In October 2003, Greg Fagan served as tour guide for Scripps executives sizing up Palm Beach County real estate by helicopter and on foot.
That’s because Fagan, a civil engineer, had information almost no one else had, and a position of power as the outgoing chairman of the Business Development Board, the agency the county hired to help recruit major employers.
But as Fagan arranged meetings and meals aimed at luring the biotech executives here, officials involved with the deal said Fagan did not disclose to them his own interest in vacant rural land along Northlake Boulevard, across the street from the Vavrus Ranch and a short distance from Mecca Farms.