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A daily look at some of The News & Observer’s headlines on Sept. 22 in past years.
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On this day in 1996, North Carolina’s former lieutenant governor was planning to plead guilty to tax evasion. Jimmy Green, a Democrat who had also served as House speaker, was the subject of a wide-ranging federal investigation into tobacco fraud.
An attorney for the powerful politician told The N&O of Green’s plan to plead guilty, and said no sentencing deal had been made. Green’s lawyer said that he was accepting responsibility. He was later sentenced to house arrest.
It wasn’t the first time Green had a run-in with the law. In 1983, when he was lieutenant governor, he faced a charge of bribing an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted.
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Green died in 2000.
Tobacco prices were often front page news in 1926, as a major economic driver in North Carolina. On this day 100 years ago, several tobacco markets in what the newspaper called the Old Bright Belt opened, with “prices good.”
Most of the nine markets that opened sold more than 100,000 pounds of tobacco, totaling more than 1.1 million pounds in a day’s sales. Durham sold 175,000 pounds of tobacco.
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