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Election 2012
6:17 pm
Fri October 12, 2012

Mo. Bar Cancels Atty. Gen. Debate; Martin Files Ethics Complaint Against Koster

The Missouri Bar has canceled its planned debate for the state Attorney General’s race.

The debate had been planned for Friday, October 19th, in St. Louis at the Missouri Bar’s annual meeting.  Spokeswoman Farrah Fite says they canceled the debate because Republican nominee Ed Martin did not RSVP by Thursday’s deadline.  She added that incumbent Democrat Chris Koster and Libertarian nominee Dave Browning had accepted the invitation.

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Cupples 9 tax credits
4:58 pm
Fri September 7, 2012

Koster sues to recover tax credits awarded to Cupples 9 project

Credit (photo courtesy of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis)
The Cupples 9 building as it looked in 1989. Chris Koster has sued a more recent owner to recover tax credits that were allegedly fraudulently obtained.

Attorney General Chris Koster has sued a well-known St. Louis developer and his former business partner in an effort to recover tax credits that Koster says were fraudulently obtained.

In the suit filed today in Cole County, Koster alleges that in 2010 and 2011, the state Department of Economic Development awarded developers Kevin McGowan and Nathaniel Walsh nearly $2.4 million in brownfield credits to clean up lead paint at the Cupples 9 building in downtown St. Louis.

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