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Re: Easley friends with Hendrick

Taxpayer2008 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:45:17 -0400

Let the Feds do it. Maybe Cooper got a car too.

Cooper has no resolve to do anything. He's part of the problem. He was too scared to go after the real criminals in the Duke LAX case when the truth finally came out.

Let the guilty go free should be his slogan.

Re: Easley friends with Hendrick

billybo — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:58:16 -0400

AG Roy Cooper needs tremendous pressure applied to him from this paper, before he will ever make a move against the Easleys.

Easley friends with Hendrick

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:05:04 -0400

Former Gov. Mike Easley was close friends with Rick Hendrick.

Easley crashed one of Hendrick's race cars, went to receptions at his races, and traveled on his racing team jet to his retreat in Florida.

Mary Easley has been driving a $30,000 Honda Accord that belongs to a Charlotte dealership owned by Hendrick. Mike Easley Jr. has been driving a 2000 GMC sport utility truck also owned by a dealer.

At the same time, Hendrick's racing businesses have received tax breaks for corporate jet fuel and other government help, sometimes with Easley's assistance.

In an e-mail, Easley wrote that he would not talk about his trip to Key West with Hendrick.

"I don't discuss personal business on personal vacation on personal time," he wrote. (N&O)