Geddings gave credit to Middleton
Friday, September 29th, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
J. Andrew Curliss and Dan Kane, Staff Writers
Former lottery commissioner Kevin L. Geddings thought his appointment to the lottery board was due to a friend who also was chief lobbyist for the lottery vendor Scientific Games, according to testimony Wednesday in federal court.
Scott Anderson, a former aide to Gov. Mike Easley who now works for the National Education Association, testified about a conversation he had with Geddings last year shortly after the appointment by House Speaker Jim Black was announced.
Anderson said he asked Geddings, "How did you pull that off?"
"He said that he thought that Alan Middleton had a role in it," Anderson told the jurors.
Middleton was a key executive for Scientific Games. Records indicate he had dinner with Black the night before the appointment was announced. Prosecutors have said that the speaker settled on the choice of Geddings at that time.
After Geddings’ appointment, a Scientific Games executive congratulated Middleton in an e-mail message introduced as evidence. "Not my doing," Middleton replied. (more…)
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