N&O:

A company owned by the son of former House Speaker Jim Black won contracts to provide pest control at the state's newest three prisons, although competing bidders offered to do the work at less than half of Black's price...a former project manager at two of the prison construction sites said he was pressured to hire Black.

George Zaborowski, project manager for a Centex subcontractor, D.H. Griffin Concrete Services, said two Centex officials demanded that his company hire Black in 2004 to satisfy a state lawmaker whose vote proved crucial to Centex's getting the prison construction business.

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[Fred Gregory]

Appears though it's time for the federal grand jury to get cranked up again. I mean if it's ok with Marc Basnight.