Beason to keep working
Published: Tue, Jul. 31, 2007 08:44PM
Modified Tue, Jul. 31, 2007 08:45PM
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closeA spokeswoman for Don Beason said he will continue working.
Joyce Fitzpatrick, a Raleigh communications consultant who sent out an earlier statement from Beason, said that he was in contact with nearly all of his clients today after the news broke that he had loaned Jim Black $500,000.
"He received a lot of support from them," she said.
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Beason's 16 clients listed on the N.C. Secretary of State Web site include BB&T, Carolina Ballet, Cingular Wireless and Dale Earnhardt Inc. Two clients, Progress Energy and the city of Hickory, have expressed doubts about continuing his services.
Fitzpatrick referred further questions to Beason's attorneys, Ed Henson of Charlotte and Wade Smith of Raleigh.
Smith was at Black's sentencing hearing today, but he had no comment.
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