N.C. House Speaker Jim Black says checks funneled from optometrists through him always had names on them.
“All the checks I remember seeing had names on them,” Black testified.
Black said the optometrists’ political action committee and other groups approached him to learn which candidates he would like to see supported. “They wanted to know who was on my team,” Black testfied.
Black said he usually gave those groups 12 to 14 names of people in toss-up districts who he wanted to support.
