Jim Black is getting $30,000 in state money to pay his legal bills. Money that is not instead going, say, to a broken criminal court system in Mecklenburg.
Black wanted — I believe — up to $200K. When that was turned down, Black set up his is legal defense fund.
Jim Black, private citizen, is perfectly welcome to a secret legal defense fund. Jim Black, powerful lawmaker, is not.
Congress and the executive branch report donors — the Senate down to a very low $25 threshold. And Lord knows we were all plenty embarassed by Yan Lin Trie, his sacks of cash, and the Clinton Legal Defense Trust.
