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Team 4 Investigates High-Flying Lawmakers, Ghost Voting

POSTED: 11:24 am EST November 30, 2005
UPDATED: 1:18 pm EST November 30, 2005

A Team 4 investigation by Jim Parsons finds that Pennsylvania taxpayers have spent more than $2 million since 2002 on the use of two state passenger planes.

You knew state lawmakers gave themselves a pay raise. But Team 4 has learned some of them are flying around in the official state plane -- sometimes to go to resorts, and sometimes to fly home for the weekend.

Parsons: "Why do you fly on the state planes?"

House Minority Leader Bill DeWeese: "I think, notwithstanding the fact that you're a perfect gentleman, the question borders on vacuity."

They may not want to talk about it, but Team 4 does.

Parsons: "Why are you going to Nemacolin? Why are you going to Greenbrier?"

Keith New: "It's easy to ask those questions and it's easy to spin things a certain way."

Parsons: "Well, give me an answer."

Watch the Team 4 investigation, "High Flying Legislators," tonight on WTAE Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m.

(The report will be available on this page late Thursday morning.)


Then, tonight at 6 p.m.: "Ghost Voting"

How did a local state lawmaker manage to cast votes in Harrisburg while Team 4 observed him at home in West Mifflin?

Watch Paul Van Osdol's Team 4 report tonight on WTAE Channel 4 Action News at 6 p.m.
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