Doing the math
Update: The AP updates its story, now saying:
An appeal from the former political director of House Speaker Jim Black to urge him to consider the ideas of a lottery executive in getting the lottery bill passed and a plea for the former staffer to return Black's state-owned computer were among more than 2,100 pages of new documents released by his office Thursday.
Earlier...
Our friends at the Associated Press report:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — House Speaker Jim Black released 1,800 pages of new documents Thursday that his office gave to a federal grand jury examining the video poker and lottery industries, his former political director and others....
The documents provided in response to the subpoena include more than 1,200 pages previously given to the media.
In case you're keeping score at home, that means there are 600 pages of new material out there for my colleagues to scrub over. With that much more fodder in the offing, stay tuned for a new round of stories concerning Jim Black's troubles.