Source: Dan Kane and Craig Jarvis, NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/27/18


House Speaker Tim Moore has hired a former Wake County district attorney to represent him as he deals with questions about his legal work for a Durham-based pharmaceutical startup and an association that trains bail agents, WBTV reported. Moore told WBTV that he hired Colon Willoughby, who served as Wake’s top prosecutor for nearly 30 years, after the current district attorney, Lorrin Freeman, launched an inquiry into Moore’s private legal work. Freeman has stressed the inquiry is not a criminal investigation.

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