Ken Cuccinelli Defends our states from the same Company suing our state for 700,000 dollars that he took from 13,000 - 18,000 or more dollars from undisclosed? Conflict of interest?
"Three of them were from Jonnie Williams, the CEO of troubled nutritional supplement maker Star Scientific and a political contributor to Cuccinelli. They included a $3,000 vacation stay and $1,500 Thanksgiving retreat and dinner at Williams' Smith Mountain Lake vacation home.
Cuccinelli also made a nominal revision to his 2011 filing to show that $6,711 worth of nutritional supplements he received that year came from Star Scientific, not from Williams as he had previously reported.
The annual reports listing their business interests, assets, honoraria and gifts are required of elected officials each January under Virginia law. A deliberate violation is a misdemeanor, but an unintended error or omission is not an offense.
Friday's disclosures boost the value of Cuccinelli's reported gifts from either Williams or his company over the past four years from $13,000 to more than $18,000. In addition to the gifts, Star Scientific was the only company in which Cuccinelli held stock before he sold some of his shares in 2012, and the rest earlier this month.
McEachin and Toscano were incredulous about Cuccinelli's come-clean moment done at an hour of the week tailored to minimize its exposure through traditional news outlets.
"He just happened to forget thousands (of dollars) in gifts from the CEO who sued the state over unpaid taxes and in whose company he held stock," said Toscano of Charlottesville, the House minority leader.
"How many of your friends and neighbors would forget a big company funding a big trip for you and your family or paying for a vacation for you or paying for an air flight to New York City," Toscano said.
Cuccinelli came under fire late last month for allowing his office to defend the Virginia Department of Taxation in Star Scientific's lawsuit over $700,000 in disputed state taxes. But he relented this month and allowed two lawyers in private practice to take over the case.
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