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Indictment charges former Sen. Jon Woods, college president and pal in kickback scheme

A new indictment names former Sen. Jon Woods, Oren Paris III, the president of Ecclesia College in Springdale and Randell Shelton, a personal friend of Woods and Paris in a kickback scheme using state money.
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Pork barrel included more than $40,000 for ozone therapy shipped from NWA to Benton

Blogger Russ Racop uncovers another curious bit of spending of the pork barrel money known as the General Improvement Fund: Shipment of more than $40,000 from Northwest Arkansas legislators' allotment to a little-known outfit in Saline County that promotes an alternative medicine known as ozone therapy. Familiar legislative names were involved.
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Subpoenas identify names of federal interest in kickback probe

The Northwest Arkansas Economic Development District today provided me with the subpoena it received from federal investigators in a probe that led to former Republican Rep. Micah Neal's guilty plea to taking kickbacks from money he guided to a nonprofit agency and a private college in Springdale, apparently Ecclesia College.
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