More than two months after Bel Rio owner Jim Baldi asked local artist Chris Butler to display his paintings and pen-and-ink work inside Baldi’s Belmont club, Butler returned to take his work from the walls. By then, Bel Rio had been closed for nearly two weeks, and its owner—the subject of a $300,000 fraud lawsuit […]
Maybe Secretary of State Hillary Clinton caught word of Patricia Kluge’s wines during her 2008 presidential campaign stop?
George Seward became a lawyer one year before he graduated from the UVA Law School, in 1936
Meanwhile, Albemarle County posts one of the lowest rates in Virginia
The Bel Rio owner is accused of embezzling money from two county businesses
From former clients of his Virginia Payroll & Tax business to the Virginia Department of Taxation, more than a few folks would like to know the whereabouts of Jim Baldi. Baldi, who also owns the Belmont club Bel Rio, now shuttered, slipped out of Charlottesville during the last few weeks without a trace, apparently. Other […]
On the west side of Old Lynchburg Road, directly opposite Biscuit Run, sits Whittington—Biscuit Run’s Rural Area cousi
Missing Bel Rio owner Jim Baldi was reported by other media sources to have left town with the 25-year-old Bel Rio employee
The building at 722 Preston Avenue is one of Charlottesville’s individually protected properties