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Ray Sansom Gets Day in Court

February 26th, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda

Former House Speaker Ray Sansom of Destin spent the day in a Tallahassee courtroom. He and his lawyer are arguing they deserve more than 817 thousand dollars in legal fees stemming from criminal charges later dropped that alleged Samson misrepresented a six million dollar item in the state budget when he was appropriations chairman. The money was to go to an emergency operations center, which turned out to be a hanger for a political contributor of Sansom’s. The criminal charges were dropped after a procedural ruling. Under state law. Someone accused of a crime while acting in their official capacity can recover legal fees if they are not convicted. The trial is expected to continue tomorrow.

 

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