The keeper of a box full of American Legion documents and receipts has been subpoenaed to appear June 4 before a Kanawha County grand jury. Douglas Davis, a past commander of American Legion Post 57, received a subpoena dated April 13 from Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Stephen B. Revercomb. Davis was ordered to bring along all financial records from the historically black West Side post, covering January 1995 to the present. Some members of the post have been trying for years to get to the source of missing funds, bounced checks and unmet mortgage payments. Jones said the post's situation is dire.
Factions often bicker with each other.
Last summer, two members got into a brief physical altercation and had to be restrained by others. Post 57 gained its charter in 1921. That's a thing I've always felt proud of. Jones investigated the post's finances and issued a report in June 2000. It did not appear that the lounge's bank statements had been balanced.