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February 12, 2009

Judge explains order to hire Diaz

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 With a standing-room-only crowd, Chancery Judge Larry Buffington on Wednesday explained to Simpson County supervisors his rationale for ordering them to hire former state Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. as a Youth Court public defender. “Oliver is a friend, but there was no quid pro quo,” Buffington said at the meeting…
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February 12, 2009

Scandal edges closer to Cochran, staff

The Sun Herald, 2/11/9 The food and drinks weren’t quite what the Senate aide expected when she arrived at the lobbyist’s luxury suite for the Orioles baseball game at Baltimore’s Camden Yards. “Ackkk. Only beer and no Hebrew National hot dogs,” Ann Copland complained in a June 2003 e-mail now on file in federal court.…