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August 2, 2009

SALTER – 2011 Gov. election still fairly open, but closing

SALTER – More said by non-speakers at Neshoba Gov. Haley Barbour spent the majority of his speech making the Republican case against the Obama health care reform package and against the Markey-Waxman cap and trade legislation. The two-term governor didn’t break any new ground. But in his sixth speech at Neshoba as governor and his…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 2, 2009

AUSA Bob Norman confirms P.L. Blake is under investigation for Scruggs 1

AUSA Bob Norman confirms P.L. Blake is under investigation Federal prosecutors in Oxford confirmed they’re still interested in Birmingham businessman P.L. Blake, a mysterious figure who earned $50 million from tobacco settlement expenses. Blake testified he earned the money by clipping newspapers and keeping his ear to the ground for Scruggs, who engineered the settlement.…