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Report cites Steve Faris in legal fee deal arising from Arkansas Teacher Retirement suit

A report released Tuesday by a Massachusetts federal court again emphasizes the role former Arkansas Sen. Steve Faris played in helping a law firm land the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System as a client in a class action securities case that produced a $75 million attorney fee.
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The Malvern connection: Millions flow through it

How a couple of former senators from Malvern find themselves in a legal controversy over a $4 million finder's fee paid to a Texas lawyer.
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Teacher Retirement case reveals memo about favors done for Arkansas legal work

A court filings refers to favors done to get a law firm a lucrative piece of work representing the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System in a class action lawsuit against an investment firm.

The bubbling constitutional crisis — Lamoureux v. the Law

I keep hearing that it ain't over until it's over on Senate President Michael Lamoureux's breath-taking power grab in which he annexed the lieutenant governor's $265,000 staff and called it his own, with power to hire, fire and pay.
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Lamoureux names Julie Baldridge to the state Lottery Commission

Sen. Michael Lamoureux, president pro tem of the Senate, Tweets tgat he'll replace Steve Faris on the Arkansas Lottery Commission with Julie Baldridge.

Senate president names Health Marketplace board members

Senate President Pro Tem Michael Lamoureux has named his three appointees to the nine-member committee to the Board of the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace.
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Inside the lottery succession

John Brummett explains how a fight over the Lake Maumelle watershed might play a role in deciding who's the next director of the Arkansas Lottery.

Lottery commission hires tax help

Gerard Matthews will be back with more details later, but he reports that the Lottery Commission has voted to hire a tax attorney to try to straighten out its federal tax troubles — that big penalty for failing for the second year in a row to remit taxes owed on time.
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IRS issues lottery $99,673.29 penalty

A $99,637 fine was issued to the Arkansas Lottery due to late payments of taxes withheld from lottery winners

Lottery falls short of scholarship goal

Lottery director Ernie Passailaigue told commissioners that the $98 million the lottery will transfer to the academic scholarship fund will be short of his original goal.
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Commissioners halt decision on lottery data

The lottery held the meeting to request that DIS turn over historical data on retailer contracts to be housed on the lottery’s own system, run by Intralot, the Greece-based company that holds the lottery’s online gaming contact. Engstrom and Faris raised concerns that removing that data from a state-run system would result in a lack of accountability and ultimately stopped the lottery from moving forward.

Lottery commissioners plan visit

Arkansas Lottery Commission spokeswoman Julie Baldridge sent notice to press last night that two members of the commission — Steve Faris and Bruce Engstrom — would be at commission offices around the same time today and, in an abundance of caution about the FOI, she wanted the press to know.
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