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Title: Former state lawmaker testifies he was paid to oppose EPA [Alabama]
Post by: Suppressed on July 05, 2018, 05:28:29 pm

Former state lawmaker testifies he was paid to oppose EPA
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https://apnews.com/f7ade71c0fe54ad18a7cadae2debd5d0/Former-state-lawmaker-testifies-he-was-paid-to-oppose-EPA

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Former state Rep. Oliver Robinson testified Tuesday that he accepted money to oppose federal environmental cleanup efforts in north Birmingham, telling jurors that in doing so that he felt like he sold out the people who had elected him.

Robinson, a former basketball star and one-time rising star in the Alabama House of Representatives, took to the witness stand as a disgraced politician. He is a key witness for prosecutors trying to prove that two attorneys with a prominent Alabama law firm and a coal company executive paid bribes to Robinson, in the form of a consulting contract, in the hopes of avoiding clean-up costs at a Birmingham Superfund site.

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