Source: Laura Leslie, WRAL, 1/16/19

 A veteran political watchdog wants state investigators to look for any connection between House Speaker Tim Moore's 2016 sale of a chicken processing plant in Siler City and major political donations from the plant's buyer that followed. Moore's involvement with the chicken plant has been questioned for some time. He and partners bought the former Townsend plant out of bankruptcy for $85,000 in 2013 through a company called Southeast Land Holdings. They sold it to Mountaire Farms in 2016 for $550,000.

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