Baker bribery case update: More legislative influence-peddling recounted by former UCA president Tom Courtway
Debra Hale-Shelton will be writing a fuller account later of events today in the
bribery trial of former Republican Party chair and senator Gilbert Baker, but she provided a summary of afternoon events that adds more to the morning account of special interest influence at the Arkansas legislature.
TOM COURTWAY: Fired Gilbert Baker as a lobbyist despite support from a current and former senator.
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Tom Courtway, former president of the
University of Central Arkansas, in a rambling, almost story-telling account of his hiring of Baker as a lobbyist for UCA and his ultimate firing. What Courtway related was told outside the hearing of the jury as Judge Price Marshall decided whether the Courtway testimony the government wanted to present was admissible. The judge decided that it was admissible, though he admonished the government to adduce testimony in a Q&A fo
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Illness of prosecutor rattles bribery trial
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Former state Sen. Gilbert Baker is shown speaking to reporters in this file photo.
The bribery trial of former state Sen. Gilbert Baker was nearly upended Thursday for a second time related to a covid-19 scare after Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Harris was reported to have taken ill with a fever and other symptoms after leaving court Wednesday.
Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. announced that Assistant U.S. Attorney John Ray White had stepped in to help Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Peters in Harris absence. Marshall also announced that court will be recessed today to give White time to get caught up on the case.
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Centennial of ex-astronaut, US Senator John Glenn marked
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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 1961 file photo, then Marine Lt. Col. John Glenn reaches for controls inside a Mercury capsule procedures trainer as he shows how the first U.S. astronaut will ride through space during a demonstration at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research Center in Langley Field, Va. Glenn s birthplace and childhood hometown in Ohio are celebrating what would have been the history-making astronaut and U.S. senator s 100th birthday with a three-day festival from July 16 through July 18, 2021. (AP Photo/File)
NEW CONCORD, Ohio – John Glenn has been honored over the weekend with a three-day festival in Ohio marking what would have been the history-making astronaut and U.S. senator’s 100th birthday.