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| Hunter and Son |
A few weeks back our of our guest writers covered the angry mood at the legislator, anger over Attorney General Mike Hunter's short cutting the litigation in return for a rather large private donation from one of the largest opioid makers.
In that story the role of Glen Coffee came out, the former Senate Pro Tem got a healthy cut of the pie. The NonDoc story at this link covers the controversy in great depth including how little work Coffee was alleged to have done for the payout.
Another shoe dropped early last week. It turned out that Mike Hunter's boy had been hired at OSU to work at the organization that was set to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the settlement. Rather than write the story again we prefer to let NonDoc tell the story as they did an excellent job doing so. There is said to be a transcript of the meetings and settlements that explains everything, Glen Coffee's involvement, and there is one more shoe that hasn't dropped.
It turns out that this new organization is going to require as much as $35,000,000 per year in state appropriations to operate and that is just the part that the “donation” from the opioid maker doesn't cover. Most of this will be funneled through higher education with no doubt plenty of erosion along the path till the money reaches OSU.
