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Corrupt Councilman Pressuring City Attorney to Bury Ethics Complaints As Other Officials Worry About Optics

Post author By Michael F. Roessler
Post date August 30, 2020
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City Council thinks it has a problem. Not, mind you, an ethics problem. But an image problem. A public relations problem. An optics problem. The recent flurry of ethics complaints against Charlotte’s elected officials looks bad, and that, perhaps unlike corruption, is intolerable. “I think what we need to do now is to stop the […]