Carolina Journal investigative reporter Don Carrington has located an attorney who served for roughly six months in 2008 as the compliance director for the Beverly Perdue campaign. From the story:
An attorney who was compliance director and custodian of books for the Bev Perdue Committee for roughly six months in 2008, during which more than 40 questionable campaign-related flights took place, told Carolina Journal she has yet to be questioned by investigators looking into the flights.
Priya T. Sarathy — who recently married and now goes by Priya Sarathy Jones — now works for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. As compliance director for the Perdue campaign, she would have been responsible for making sure that contributions to Perdue’s gubernatorial campaign followed state election laws.
The flights are at the heart of a State Board of Elections investigation that recently expanded to a criminal probe by the State Bureau of Investigation.
Reached by phone Oct. 7 at her Washington office, Jones told Carolina Journal she was not interested in speaking to reporters. She acknowledged she knew the SBI was investigating the Perdue Committee. “They have not contacted me. I am not interested in talking with reporters about this and I am not even living in North Carolina right now. I have no comment. I have no involvement with anything,” she said.
