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Monday, August 17, 2009

Grand jury to investigate Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom, Miami Herald

January 27, 2009
By Alex Leary

-- A grand jury decided Monday to launch a formal investigation into Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and whether his six-figure job at a Panhandle college was payback for helping the school get millions of dollars in construction money over the past two years.

The 21-member panel concluded that Sansom's relationship with the school warranted a criminal probe after reviewing the facts outlined in a series of articles by the Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau.

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