Virginia
West Virginia gov's historic Greenbrier hotel avoids foreclosure as he runs for Senate
The family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has reached an agreement with a credit collection company to avoid the foreclosure of their historic hotel as he runs for US Senate, the resort announced Thursday.
The Republican governor’s family had been set to appear in court Friday to ask a judge to halt the auction of The Greenbrier, which had been scheduled for Tuesday.
That hearing has been canceled.
“It’s taken care of, and we move forward, and The Greenbrier is as whole as it can possibly be,” Justice said at a news briefing. “The Greenbrier is going to be in our family forevermore.”
The hotel came under threat of auction after JPMorgan Chase sold a longstanding loan taken out by the governor to a credit collection company, McCormick 101 — a subsidiary of Beltway Capital — which declared it to be in default.
In a statement, the Justice family said it had reached an agreement with Beltway Capital to “receive a specific amount to be paid in full by October 24, 2024.”
The family said it had already secured the money, although the Justices did not specify the amount.
“Under the agreement, Beltway Capital will Beltway reserves its rights if the Justice family fails to perform,” the statement reads.
A message left with Beltway Capital wasn’t immediately returned Thursday.
Justice defended his family’s business practices at Thursday’s briefing and repeated past claims that JPMorgan Chase’s sale of The Greenbrier loan was a politically motivated effort to hurt his US Senate campaign.
“We had a 14-year working relationship with JPMorgan, and then shortly after the primary where I was the winner — hands down, you’re going to the U.S. Senate, no matter what anybody says under the sun — it makes, it made, total no sense other than political, it made no sense at all,” he said.
Justice said that his family had made payments on the JPMorgan as recently as June and that it was notified the loan had been sold in July without prior warning. JPMorgan Chase did not respond to an email seeking comment.
If the hotel had been sold, Justice said, “there would have been carnage and devastation like you can’t imagine to the great people of The Greenbrier,” referring to jobs that could have been lost.
The auction, which had been set to occur at a courthouse Tuesday in the small city of Lewisburg, involved 60.5 acres, including the hotel and parking lot.
Justice family attorneys filed a motion this week for a preliminary injunction to try to halt the auction of The Greenbrier.
They claimed that a 2014 deed of trust approved by the governor was defective because JPMorgan didn’t obtain consent from the Greenbrier Hotel Corp.’s directors or owners, and that auctioning the property violates the company’s obligation to act in “good faith and deal fairly” with the corporation.
They also argued, in part, that the auction would harm the economy and threaten hundreds of jobs.
About 400 employees at The Greenbrier hotel received notice this week from an attorney for the health care provider Amalgamated National Health Fund saying they would lose coverage Tuesday, the scheduled date of the auction, unless the Justice family paid $2.4 million in missing contributions.
Peter Bostic, a union official with the Workers United Mid-Atlantic Regional Joint Board, said that the Justice family hasn’t contributed to employees’ health fund in four months, and that an additional $1.2 million in contributions will soon be due, according to the letter the board received from Ronald Richman, an attorney with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, the firm representing the fund.
The letter also said some contributions were taken out of employees’ paychecks but never transferred to the fund, concerning union officials.
Justice dismissed concerns about the claims Thursday, telling reporters that “insurance payments were made and were being made on a regular basis.”
“There is no way that the great union employees at The Greenbrier are going to go without insurance,” he said. “There is no possible way.”
Justice is running for Senate against Democrat Glenn Elliott, a former mayor of Wheeling. Justice, who owns dozens of companies and had a net worth estimated at $513 million by Forbes Magazine in 2021, has been accused in court cases of being late in paying millions for family business debts and fines for unsafe working conditions at his coal mines.
He began serving the first of his two terms as governor in 2017, after buying The Greenbrier out of bankruptcy in 2009.
The hotel has hosted US presidents, royalty and, from 2010 until 2019, a PGA Tour tournament.
Justice’s family also owns The Greenbrier Sporting Club, a private luxury community with a members-only “resort within a resort.”
That property was scheduled to be auctioned off this year in an attempt by Carter Bank & Trust of Martinsville, Virginia, to recover more than $300 million in business loans defaulted by the governor’s family, but a court battle delayed that process.
2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
Women’s 400 Medley Relay
- NCAA Record: 3:19.58 – Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch), 2025
Championship Record: 3:21.01 – Virginia (Walsh, Nocentini, Walsh, Parker), 2024- American Record: 3:19.58 – Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch), 2025
- U.S. Open Record: 3:19.58 – Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch), 2025
- 2024 Champion: Virginia (Walsh, Nocentini, Walsh, Parker) – 3:21.01
TOP 8 FINISHERS:
- Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch) – 3:20.20 (Meet Record)
- Tennessee (Fuller, McSharry, Stotler, Spink) – 3:24.99
- Florida (Sims, Bottazzo Peoples, Cronk) – 3:25.18
- Indiana (DeWitt, Crawford, Grana, Paegle) – 3:25.83
- Texas (Bray, Enge, Sticklen, Nesty) – 3:26.11
- Stanford (Parkhe, Thomas, Huske, Nordmann) – 3:26.34
- USC (Famous, Dobler, Sasseville, Abraham) – 3:26.82
- Louisville (Murray, Cheatwood, Welch, Dennis) – 3:27.76
The Virginia women’s 400 medley relay of Claire Curzan, Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh, and Anna Moesch swam to a new NCAA meet record posting a 3:20.20. The relay also swam the #2 performance of all-time sitting right behind their own NCAA and American Records of a 3:18.58 that they swam at ACCs last month.
Split Comparison
The biggest difference today was Gretchen Walsh as she split a 47.35 on the fly leg, faster than the 49.15 that sister Alex Walsh swam in the previous meet record.
Notably, Curzan and Gretchen Walsh were all slower in their relay swim tonight compared to their individual wins earlier in the session in their respective stroke 100s. Curzan won the 100 back in a 49.11 while Gretchen Walsh was off her winning time of a 46.97.
Spring football is in full swing for Virginia Tech and there are a lot of newcomers to the program. The Hokies have 12 enrollees as freshman and 19 transfers and as they begin their first season in Blacksburg, they are going to be wearing new jersey numbers as well:
WR Donavon Greene – No. 3
DB Christian Ellis – No. 4
LB Jordan Bass – No. 6
DB Sherrod Covil – No. 7
WR Cameron Seldon – No. 9
QB Kelden Ryan – No. 12
RB Jeff Overton – No. 16
DB Tyson Flowers – No. 17
QB A.J. Brand – No. 18
DB Isaiah Cash – No. 18
DB Joseph Reddish – No. 21
WR Micah Matthews – No. 22
RB Braydon Bennett – No. 24
CB Isaiah Brown-Murray – No. 26
RB Marcellous Hawkins – No. 27
CB Knahlij Harrell – No. 28
CB Jahmari DeLoatch – No. 29
DL Ben Bell – No. 33
CB JoJo Crim – No. 35
LB Brett Clatterbaugh – No. 44
DL Sherrod Henderon – No. 52
OL Tomas Rimac – No. 55
OL Lucas Austin – No. 57
DL Zeke Chinwike – No. 58
OL Kyle Altuner – No. 62
DL James Djonkam – No. 66
OL Carter Stallard – No. 70
DL Christian Evans – No. 88
DL Arias Nash – No. 92
DL Jahzari Priester – No. 95
Earlier this week before practice got underway, Hokies head coach Brent Pry talked about how this spring will be different compared to past years due to having so many new faces:
“You know the spring to me is always a reload you know it’s about fundamentals it’s about guys you know identifying strengths and weaknesses, it’s about planning, schemes, attempting to master your craft, do we have more questions this spring than last? You know, as thorough as you are in evaluating talent, whether it’s a transfer or a high school player, there’s still more to know once they’re on your campus to get a closer look at these guys and how they can help us, how quickly they can help us. That’s a big piece of it this spring.”
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Virginia high school track star struck in head with baton cleared to run in Nationals — days after opponent rallies supporters
The Virginia high school track star concussed by a baton-wielding opponent will look for redemption when she returns to the starting line to race for a national title as her attacker faces assault charges.
Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker secured her spot at the Adidas Track Nationals in Virginia Beach after she received clearance from her doctors to return to competition, her father told TMZ.
The 16-year-old will race in the preliminary heats of the girls’ 60-meter and the 200-meter dashes at the Virginia Beach Sports Complex, according to race lineups for the meet.
Tucker will also join her schoolmates under the name Brookville TC in the 4×200 meter relay, the same race in which she was attacked.
The sprinter’s season had been in the dark since she suffered the head injury at the VHSL Class 3 State Indoor Championships at Liberty University on March 4.
Tucker, the second leg in the relay race, was battling IC Norcom High School senior Alaila Everett for second place when she was allegedly attacked.
Everett was captured on video bringing her right arm backward before launching it forward and striking Tucker with the metal baton.
Tucker detoured off the track, grabbing her head and falling to the ground.
The ailing runner immediately pulled herself and her team out of the race, while officials disqualified Everett and her school.
Tucker’s initial prognosis was grim when she was told that she suffered a concussion and “possible skull fracture.”
Everett has maintained her innocence, saying she “would never hit someone on purpose.”
She argued that her baton got “stuck” on Tucker’s back and rolled up and hit her opponent’s head.
“I lost my balance when I pumped my arms again,” Everett said, according to TMZ.
The Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Office deemed otherwise, charging the 17-year-old with one count of assault and battery stemming from the incident.
Everett and her family were also the subject of a protective order, filed against them by the Tucker family.
A rally was held at a local park in support of the teen after she was charged.
Tens of people turned out to the event Everett thanked her supporters.
“There’s no one else that wanted to hear my story, except the people that know me and people that know I would never do anything like that, I would never harm anybody. I’m not a fighter, I’m not even confrontational, I wouldn’t even do that on purpose, and I thank y’all for believing in me. I love y’all,” she said according to WAVY.com.
Everett’s speech was met with loud applause and a chant of “We stand with you.”
The president of the Portsmouth, Virginia NAACP said the Everett family had been targets of racial slurs and other threats since the viral attack.
“The Everett family has experienced racial slurs, they’ve experienced death threats, and we think unequivocally that those things are unacceptable,” James Boyd said at the gathering.
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