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More Lawson-Related Skullduggery

July 3, 2009 – 10:49 am

The Courier-Journal has a neat little story out today about the latest development in the Leonard Lawson bid-rigging scandal. In it, former Transportation Cabinet hack Jim Rummage has a couple of recorded conversations that Lawson’s defense attorney’s attest have no incriminating value yet nonetheless insist on blocking their inclusion into the legal proceedings against the [...]

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Lawson Phone Tapes Stir Controversy, Pedophile Metaphors

June 4, 2009 – 11:55 am

Like most allegedly corrupt individuals whom have had the unfortunate luck in having their conversations recorded, disgraced eastern Kentucky asphalt magnate Leonard Lawson is doing whatever he can to save as much of his ass as can be saved; from the C-J:
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Defense attorneys for road contractor Leonard Lawson argued during a closed [...]

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Citizen Lawson (or, Why More Roads Equals Less)

May 27, 2009 – 10:05 pm

When he was 18, Leonard Lawson worked on a highway project  — his first of many — as an entry-level maintenance worker. It was good, honest work for a boy hailing from Beverly, Kentucky, a hamlet located near the Commonwealth’s poverty-stricken Eastern coal fields; perched on the southwestern cusp of the Cumberland Plateau just east [...]

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