Jay Reiff, who managed former Gov. Mike Easley’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, and the unsuccessful 2008 gubernatorial campaign of former state Treasurer Richard Moore, showed up about 8:45 this morning at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, where a grand jury is hearing testimony in the Easley probe. Reiff was accompanied by Wake County attorney Michael Weisel, who was seen in attendance at the State Board of Election hearings investigating Easley.
CJ Executive Editor Don Carrington photographed the men outside the courthouse. Weisel’s on the left, Reiff on the right.
Reiff’s testimony may fill in some crucial gaps in Easley’s fundraising anomalies. The election board suggested that Reiff was the author of a fundraising plan for Easley that would have allowed donors who had given the maximum allowable contributions to Easley to provide additional donations to the North Carolina Democratic Party and then have that money channeled back to Easley. The board subpoenaed Reiff to testify but could not compel him to appear because he was in Virginia and outside the board’s jurisdiction.
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