Neil Shelton has been to hell and back.
At one time, he was a successful entrepreneur, worth about one million dollars.
After his divorce got started, he went to jail for nearly a year, became homeless, and didn’t see his children for years.
Neil has told his story many times: none funnier than on the livestream with Megan Fox and I in 2021. Starting approximately thirty-three minutes in.
As Neil noted on the broadcast, “I was arrested for trespassing at my own car lot.”
{Check out his previous appearance on Michael Volpe Investigates here.}
In one day, he was detained and sent to the psych ward… THREE TIMES.
In fact, as he has noted, his story is not about a corrupt divorce, but widespread corruption in a town with a reputation for anything but that.
He grew up in Mount Airy, North Carolina, which is the same town where Andy Griffith grew up and the model for Mayberry in the Andy Griffth Show.
The roots of his corruption are something out of a Martin Scorsese movie.
His ex-wife hired the President Pro Temp of the North Carolina State House: Sarah Stevens, to be her lawyer.
Stevens maneuvered the system so that Neil was visited by the SWAT team, held in jail for nearly a year for a threatening letter he didn’t write, and so that despite making a bunch of money he got nothing in his divorce: including no time with his children.
In 2018, Sarah explained to me why Neil wasn’t allowed to see his children.
Stevens, in an email, disputed this narrative: “He (Shelton) has had visitation rights since the first court hearing. He knows that he can request further hearing upon meeting one condition and he has not.”
Shelton said he’s required to get a psychological evaluation for $7,000 with a psychologist of Stevens’ choosing; this condition was entered at a time when he was penniless.
The court even rejected, Shelton said, three psychological evaluations which were performed for free.
“That’s extortion,” Shelton said of being forced to get an evaluation to see his kids. “If President Trump truly wants to Drain the Swamp he should start with The NC Swamp Queen Sarah.”
His travels have taken him all over the country; he currently lives in Alaska. He has even written a book.
In 2018, he gave a speech at the Whistleblower Summit.
Today, Neil wanted to talk about something else.
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