Former Gov. Mike Easley's lawyer stunned the Board of Elections by asking the case to be referred to a criminal prosecutor.
Easley's campaign quietly paid for five flights, acknowleding they were campaign-related and should have been reported.
In 1972, then-Gov. Bob Scott took a much more aggressive approach to defendng questions about his campaign finance reports, columnist Rob Christensen notes.
Photographer Shawn Rocco has compiled a photo gallery of images from Thursday and photographer Travis Long has posted a video clip of testimony by Scott Falmlen, former executive director of the N.C. Democratic Party.
