Former North Carolina Governor Mike Easley Fined for Not Reporting Flights; Prosecutors Investigate
Former NC Gov. Mike Easley
Published: October 30, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - 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 Friday 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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Well folks SC is not the only state whose Governor has done this. How about that? The news sure made it sound like it when they were investigating him. There were jokes made about SC on the late shows at night. Such an embarrassment for our state! There sure are a lot of poltiicians now days who have been crooked and should have never been in office—we need to be careful who we vote for.
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