State investigators never found any evidence of wrongdoing by Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue.
In a comment on a Dome post yesterday, the campaign manager for Perdue's rival in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, state Treasurer Richard Moore, brought up two cases overseen by the State Bureau of Investigations.
"Richard Moore is not the candidate with a history of ethical problems," wrote Jay Reiff, adding that Perdue "has been under SBI investigation not once, but several times."
In both cases, however, prosecutors said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Perdue.
A Perdue spokesman said Reiff's comments were inaccurate.
"The latest attack is just more of the same from Moore — more negativity, more inaccuracy, more scorched earth," wrote deputy campaign manager David Kochman in an e-mail to Dome. "Richard Moore is trying to bully his way to the Governor's mansion, but all he's really doing is giving more evidence about why he's wrong for North Carolina."
Details of the two cases after the jump.
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In the first case, the State Bureau of Investigation looked into allegations that Perdue had two roads paved in exchange for a 1994 campaign donation. They concluded that a key piece of evidence — a check marked "donation/road paving" — had been altered after Perdue's campaign cashed it.
Afterward, Carteret County Prosecutor David McFayden Jr. said there was "no evidence" Perdue did anything inappropriate.
In 1996 and 1997, A. Stephen Pierce, then-owner of the state's largest nursing home chain, funneled campaign donations through relatives and employees to four top state politicians, including $19,000 to Perdue, then chairwoman of a Senate health committee.
Forsyth County District Attorney Tom Keith said he had "no evidence whatsoever" that Perdue or the other politicians knew the money was tainted.
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