One Repuglican legislator makes an illegal deal with a gas pipeline company. And, he makes it on an internet broadcast. Was he that desperate to get out of Alaska? I guess so. He agreed to pass a tax cut and give the oil company a sweetheart deal on a pipeline contract in exchange for?
A job in the Barbado Islands!
Kott, the former House speaker, explicitly said during a teleconference with company officials that he would support the pipeline and the company's preferred version of the tax proposal if he was made warden of a prison the company was building in the Caribbean, according to the indictment.
"You'll get your gas line, the governor gets his bill, and I'll get my job in Barbados," he told company executives, the indictment states.
Details in the Gainesville Times
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