Apr 03 2008
Wright Denies Letter Used for Loan
Former Rep. Thomas Wright denied Thursday he committed fraud by persuading a state official to write a letter about a nonexistent state grant and insisted he didn’t use the letter to take out a $150,000 loan.Taking the stand in his own defense, Wright also said he had little to do with setting up the financing that led to the 2002 purchase of a building that he hoped would be used to house health care offices and a museum commemorating the 1898 Wilmington race riots.
The financing “had already been arranged by someone else working on this thing,” said Wright, making his first extended comments on the events that have caused him legal problems for more than a year.
