Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 12/12/18


The months-long legal spat over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper took an unexpected turn Wednesday when Cooper’s office requested public records from the legislators in a bid to expose the political machinations behind their planned investigation of him, just hours before the legislators hired a private eye firm to start investigating Cooper. Cooper sent his public records request Wednesday, coinciding with a legislative subcommitteepublic hearing to interview a trio of veteran investigators and hire their firm, Eagle Intel Services, at a rate of $100 an hour. 

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