LaRoque held in contempt
Submitted by James on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:48pm
NC Policy Watch has the story.
N.C. Rep. Stephen LaRoque’s non-profit failed to turn over documents detailing the inner workings of the federally-funded organization in an ongoing defamation lawsuit, a Superior Court judge ruled this week. The East Carolina Development Company, a non-profit that LaRoque has been executive director of since 1997, will have to pay $250 a day in fines until it turns over the documents requested by lawyers for Van Braxton, the former Democratic legislator that LaRoque beat in last year’s elections.
The fine seems a little thin, given LaRoque's history of scamming. The judge should have added a zero to the figure, with a bit of jail time to boot. And the focus should be on LaRoque's contempt, not his corporation. Corporations are not people.
Good
I've held him in contempt since the day he threatened me with a lawsuit for something I wrote here. Maybe this Van Braxton suit will cure him of his litigious nature, or at least make him realize that threatening is only part of the formula, and a small part at that.