Re: OT: Hey Brian.....

Situation: Town board members feel upstaged by a financial debacle in neighboring city, which lost city many millions of dollars. Not to be outdone, town board suggests that nobody really needs a business plan, and cooks up a project dumber than the one in the nearby city. Within the next month, they'll announce the name of the entity which will run this thing, a hotel. A group of citizens will be interested in finding out exactly who is behind the curtain, because town boards *never* pull stunts like this unless someone's getting paid. Somebody's involved with the partnership, or somebody's selling the land under the project, and ruling on the zoning to expedite the sale. That sort of thing.

Would it require the help of a lawyer to "out" the information?

Probably. Corporations and LLCs are often used for precisely this purpose, to hide the identity of the real players. Each state has its own corporation laws, and its own set of shareholder's rights and disclosure laws. Plus, this is the kind of pure corporate-law question that I'm not well qualified to answer.

So much is available from government web sites now, let's see what we can find. What state are you in, and what are the names of the entities?
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