N.C. panel penalizes former governor, asks for probe

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The Associated Press
© October 30, 2009

By Gary D. Robertson

RALEIGH, N.C.

North Carolina elections officials have penalized former Gov. Mike Easley's campaign $100,000 for unreported airplane flights and asked prosecutors to investigate whether laws were broken.

The State Board of Elections decision today came after hearings into the conduct of the two-term Democrat and the state Democratic Party.

The party was ordered to forfeit $9,000 solicited by the Easley campaign.

The Easley campaign was told to give up $60,000 for flights costs and to reimburse the elections board $40,000 for its investigation.

A political ally of Easley testified this week he flew the governor dozens of times for campaign-related events.

Easley denied allegations he told the ally to file flight invoices to get money for home repairs.

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Enough

Submitted by rightleftmiddle on Sat, 10/31/2009 at 10:42 am.

enough on this. we get our state news from raleigh. keep the focus on local news. amazing about the news coverage on certain stories out of chowan, or lack of coverage. conflict of interest possible? sure seems like.