Calendar updates
In date order:
- Court documents say that former lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings is due to be sentenced on Monday.
- The Associated Press reports:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The State Board of Elections will meet May 15 to hold an investigative hearing into the campaign finances of Rep. Thomas Wright, an elections official said Tuesday, marking a new phase of the probe into donations Wright has received.
The public meeting, which could last up to three days, will come five months after a former Democratic consultant lodged a formal complaint against Wright, D-New Hanover, alleging he broke elections law by delaying disclosure of $41,000 in campaign donations.
Gary Bartlett, the state elections director, declined to discuss what evidence had been uncovered but said the hearing was called for by board chairman Larry Leake. In March, Bartlett said board investigators believed there was a "possibility of criminal violations" of the campaign reporting law.
Word has it that Rep. Mary McAlliste, D-Cumberland, will also come before the board during those hearings.
- Meanwhile, Dome reports that former Speaker Jim Black will be sentenced on May 18.
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