Source:  Paul A. Specht, Anne Blythe, and T. Keung Hui, NEWS & OBSERVER, 2/14/18


The new head of a conservative, Raleigh-based think tank says he has asked the state’s ethics commission to look into whether Gov. Roy Cooper accepted an illegal gift tied to his administration’s approval of a key Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit.
The ethics complaint came Wednesday, hours before Cooper announced he won’t block a bill that would divert money from the fund...

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