The State Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe into trips sponsored by a nonprofit with ties to a former powerful lawmaker that took state legislators and lobbyists on distillery tours in Kentucky in 2022 and 2024.
The investigation will specifically look for violations of the State Ethics Act and State Lobbying Act, “but we will go wherever the evidence leads us,” Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman told The News & Observer.
“The primary focus is Greater Carolina and the bourbon trip to the Louisville area,” Freeman said in an interview…