"Last October, when District Attorney Tony Rackauckas cleared former State Senator Dick Ackerman of any illegal lobbying on the proposed sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds, his report stated that Ackerman didn't violate a state ban on lobbying former colleagues because 'his contact was not with state legislators.'
Yet detailed legal billings, submitted by Ackerman's law firm to the Orange County Fair Board and obtained by Voice of OC, show that the former legislator contacted several members of Orange County's delegation to the state Legislature before and after key votes in July 2009 that authorized the sale of the fairgrounds."
Records Call Into Question District Attorney Probe of Fairgrounds Sale
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