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Holly LaBerge: 'My reputation is destroyed. I am toxic.'
The AJC's Aaron Gould Sheinin broke the news first, but Dale Russell of WAGA snagged the only interview with Holly LaBerge, who last night went public with her accusations that, in 2012, she was threatened and cajoled by top aides to Gov. Nathan Deal to reduce or dismiss ethics complaints arising from Deal's 2010 campaign for governor.
LaBerge said her public production of a memo recounting the contact at the time was a matter of self-protection. "My reputation has been destroyed," she said. "I am toxic." Watch below:
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
