CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 3, 2025--
Cushman & Wakefield announced today that Jordan McCarley has joined the firm as Executive Vice Chair in the Carolinas Institutional Multifamily Advisory team and broader Sunbelt Multifamily Advisory Group.
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McCarley, who began his career with a Cushman & Wakefield legacy company, rejoins the firm as part of the Carolinas Institutional Multifamily team’s industry-leading platform in the Carolinas. McCarley will lead the Carolinas Multifamily team alongside Blake Okland, Paul Marley and Alex McDermott.
“I’m excited to rejoin Cushman & Wakefield and the Carolinas Institutional Multifamily team,” McCarley said. “With the firm’s commitment to growing its multifamily advisory business in the Sunbelt and across its platform, it’s an extraordinary opportunity. Our analytical, collaborative approach and unsurpassed industry relationships create synergies to provide unparalleled client services in this complex capital markets environment.”
Added Blake Okland, President of Multifamily Capital Markets at Cushman & Wakefield, “We’re transforming our multifamily capital markets platform, enabling delivery of outstanding coverage across the sector’s property types in the Sunbelt and around the country. Jordan’s experience and leadership are invaluable in that effort and will be instrumental in driving client engagement, business development and platform-wide collaboration and success.”
McCarley has nearly 20 years of experience in the Carolinas, providing multifamily investment advisory services to institutional and private-capital investors and developers. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in the disposition of more than 700 transactions valued at more than $20 billion.
“With the region’s strong job and overall-economic growth, the Carolinas continue to be a top destination for multifamily development and investment,” said Chad Love, Cushman & Wakefield Carolinas Managing Principal. “We have a great multifamily advisory team, and adding Jordan just makes it that much stronger. With the depth and breadth of our capabilities, we are primed to offer our clients the best advice and build on our position as multifamily capital markets leader in the region.”
Cushman & Wakefield’s Sunbelt Multifamily Advisory Group is an 85-person investment sales team covering 14 states with No. 1 multifamily market share in that region based on sales volume and transactions reported to CoStar. Per Cushman & Wakefield, in 2024, the group closed $5 billion in sales volume through 172 deals and 28,000 units. For more information about the Sunbelt Multifamily Advisory Group, visit https://multifamily.cushwake.com.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A state appeals court is being asked to dismiss felony voter misconduct charges against an Alaska resident born in American Samoa, one of numerous cases that have drawn attention to the complex citizenship status of people born in the U.S. territory.
In arguments Thursday, attorneys for Tupe Smith plan to ask the Alaska Court of Appeals in Anchorage to reverse a lower court's decision that let stand the indictment brought against her. Her supporters say she made an innocent mistake that does not merit charges, but the state contends Smith falsely and deliberately claimed citizenship.
Prosecutors also have brought charges against 10 other people from American Samoa in the small Alaska community of Whittier, including Smith’s husband and her mother-in-law. American Samoa is the only U.S. territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship by being born on American soil and instead are considered U.S. nationals. Paths to citizenship exist, such as naturalization, though that process can be expensive and cumbersome.
American Samoans can serve in the military, obtain U.S. passports and vote in elections in American Samoa, but they cannot hold public office in the U.S. or participate in most U.S. elections.
About 25 people gathered on a snowy street outside the courthouse before Thursday's hearing to support Smith. One woman, Fran Seager of Palmer, held a sign that said, “Support our Samoans. They are US nationals.”
Smith's husband, Michael Pese, thanked the American Samoa community in the Anchorage area. “If it wasn’t for you guys, I wouldn’t be strong enough to face this head on,” he said.
State Sen. Forrest Dunbar, a Democrat who attended the rally, said the Alaska Department of Law has limited resources.
“We should be going after people who are genuine criminals, who are violent criminals, or at least have the intent to deceive,” he said. “I do not think it is a good use of our limited state resources to go after these hardworking, taxpaying Alaskans who are not criminals.”
Smith was arrested after winning election to a regional school board in 2023. She said she relied on erroneous information from local election officials when she identified herself as a U.S. citizen on voter registration forms.
In a court filing in 2024, one of her previous attorneys said that when Smith answered questions from the Alaska state trooper who arrested her, she said she was aware that she could not vote in presidential elections but was “unaware of any other restrictions on her ability to vote.”
Smith said she marks herself as a U.S. national on paperwork. But when there was no such option on voter registration forms, she was told by city representatives that it was appropriate to mark U.S. citizen, according to the filing.
Smith “exercised what she believed was her right to vote in a local election. She did so without any intent to mislead or deceive anyone,” her current attorneys said in a filing in September. “Her belief that U.S. nationals may vote in local elections, which was supported by advice from City of Whittier election officials, was simply mistaken.”
The state has said Smith falsely and deliberately claimed citizenship. Prosecutors pointed to the language on the voter application forms she filled out in 2020 and 2022, which explicitly said that if the applicant was not at least 18 years old and a U.S. citizen, “do not complete this form, as you are not eligible to vote.”
The counts Smith was indicted on “did not have anything to do with her belief in her ability to vote in certain elections; rather they concerned the straightforward question of whether or not Smith intentionally and falsely swore she was a United States citizen,” Kayla Doyle, an assistant attorney general, said in court filings last year.
One of Smith's attorneys, Neil Weare, co-founder of the Washington-based Right to Democracy Project, said by email last week that if the appeals court lets stand the indictment, Alaska will be “the only state to our knowledge with such a low bar for felony voter fraud.”
Bohrer reported from Juneau, Alaska.
Michael Pese and his wife, Tupe Smith, stand outside the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, ahead of the Alaska Court of Appeals hearing a challenge to the voter fraud case brought against her by the state. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
Michael Pese, left, his wife, Tupe Smith, and their son Maximus pose for a photo outside the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, ahead of the Alaska Court of Appeals hearing a challenge to the voter fraud case brought against her by the state. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
FILE - Tupe Smith poses for a photo outside the school in Whittier, Alaska, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
