New Questions About Crucial Burris Testimony
by Ben Protess, ProPublica –
Roland Burris has blamed state lawmakers for his shifting accounts of how he became a senator. The lawmakers, he said, failed to elicit the full story when they questioned him in early January at an Illinois House committee hearing.
But a close review of the hearing’s transcript (PDF) shows that Burris’ testimony — which he has since repeatedly revised — came in response to direct questions about both his contact with allies of former Governor Rod Blagojevich and an $800,000 loan he received in 2002 from his biggest donor.
