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Micah Neal's tape recorder was running with colleagues

Now you see why so many people who work under the Capitol dome have been nervous.
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Saturday's open line: Plus, the Malzahn watch and embezzlement news of note

The open line includes a Razorback football watch, including the potential return of Gus and Kristi Malzahn, and the suicide of a Missouri embezzler who worked for a company in the news in Arkansas.
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Ozone therapy revisited: You read it from Russ Racop and here first

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette caught up this morning on a state surplus spending scandal that blogger Russ Racop reported nine months ago and which was detailed on the Arkansas Blog, along with other General Improvement Fund funny business.

Government: More indictments possible in legislative kickback case

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that federal Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville has delayed the bribery trial of former Sen. Jon Woods  "in part because the prosecutor said the investigation is continuing and further indictments are expected."
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Little Rock's deal to resume corporate welfare payments

Here are details behind the plan for the city of Little Rock to resume $300,000 in taxpayer corporate welfare payments to the Little Rock Regional Chamber Commerce. It's as opaque and business-lobby friendly as it was before a court struck the arrangement down. Which means the City Board will probably go for it.

Not-guilty pleas entered in college kickback case

Three men implicated in a kickback scheme involving state tax money directed to Ecclesia College in Springdale pleaded not guilty today in federal court in Fayetteville.
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Big ball in Rocktown to fete House Speaker Jeremy Gillam

You won't find it on the list of scheduled events of the House of Representatives, but you can find many if not all of the legislators at the refurbished Robinson Center tonight for Speaker of the House Jeremy Gillam's formal ball. He recently engineered a law change to make sure the free wining and dining and swag bags wouldn't run afoul of the ethics law.

Jon Woods' attorney says he's innocent and will fight charges

A statement from former Sen. Jon Woods' attorney strongly disputes his guilt in Thursday's indictment and says he will fight the charges.
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Ecclesia College stands by its president

Ecclesia College in Springdale is standing by its president, Oren Paris III, indicted this week for paying kickbacks in return for state tax money shipped into his tiny Bible college.

Indictment charges former Sen. Jon Woods, college president and pal in kickback scheme

A new indictment names former Sen. Jon Woods, Oren Paris III, the president of Ecclesia College in Springdale and Randell Shelton, a personal friend of Woods and Paris in a kickback scheme using state money.
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Pork barrel included more than $40,000 for ozone therapy shipped from NWA to Benton

Blogger Russ Racop uncovers another curious bit of spending of the pork barrel money known as the General Improvement Fund: Shipment of more than $40,000 from Northwest Arkansas legislators' allotment to a little-known outfit in Saline County that promotes an alternative medicine known as ozone therapy. Familiar legislative names were involved.

To repeat: Ecclesia College has nothing further to say

Patheos blogger Warren Throckmorton calls my attention to a comment added today to the Facebook page of Ecclesia College of Springdale, which has a role in the kickback scandal involving former Republican Rep. Micah Neal of Springdale and other political players.
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