The AP reports,
Gov. Bev Perdue reportedly attended a campaign fundraiser hosted by an investor in Scientific Games, accompany [sic] which has sought North Carolina Lottery business in the past.
Three of the company’s employees were convicted of crimes related to the 2005 push to approve a lottery in North Carolina.
Marc Farinella, a Perdue spokesman, told the Raleigh News and Observer there was no problem with the governor attending a fundraiser in the New York business office of Ronald O. Perelman, a major investor in Scientific Games.
Farinella pointed out Perelman is a Greensboro native who has a lot of business interests in North Carolina, including being the chairman of cosmetics giant Revlon, which has a facility in Oxford abd [sic] that none of the companies in which he is involved with are seeking state business.
That’s right, none of Perelman’s companies are seeking state business or any favors from state officials. He is simply holding a $1,000/person funraiser because of his fondness for Governor Perdue.
