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Contractor subpoenaed after declining ethics committee's call to testify in Ellsworth case

The consultant on the other end of a state-funded contract that sparked splintering investigations into Sen. Jason Ellsworth declined a legislative ethics committee's request for his testimony on Friday, prompting lawmakers to issue a subpoena to the Ravalli County Sheriff's Office. Bryce Eggleston, the owner

Before controversial contract, Sen. Ellsworth pushed state job for business associate

Before Sen. Jason Ellsworth quietly tried shepherding a $170,000 state-funded contract for his longtime business associate, he sought to clear the way for Stevensville’s Bryce Eggleston to land a job in state government. The Montana State News Bureau on Monday obtained Eggleston’s resume for a communications

Ethics panel on Ellsworth's contract investigating potential criminal violation

A legislative ethics committee is investigating the idea that a Hamilton senator's state-funded business contract may have violated criminal statute, according to a letter adopted at the second of two committee meetings Monday. The Montana Senate voted last week to convene an ethics committee after news of

Legislative audit: Sen. Ellsworth's contracts 'illegal,' 'waste of state resources'

A Hamilton senator's recent attempt to skirt oversight in the bidding process constituted abuse of his government position as Senate President, and he wasted state resources in trying to resolve the matter, legislative auditors have determined. Republican Sen. Jason Ellsworth quietly signed a $170,100 contract with a

Emails: Legislative staff blocked senator's initial request for controversial contract

A week before state Sen. Jason Ellsworth inked a contract with a longtime business associate now under question by Republican leadership, he sought to get the state to sign off on two contracts that would keep the business deal out of view. Emails between Ellsworth, businessman Bryce Eggleston, the Legislative

GOP Senate probing $170K state contract legislator quietly awarded to business associate

A Republican senator from Hamilton recently signed a six-figure contract with a longtime business associate without legislative leadership’s knowledge, skipping the public bidding process, the Montana State News Bureau has learned. Using leftover funds from a legislative committee he formed last year, Sen. Jason Ellsworth signed a $170,

Documents regarding Patricia Anderson’s fight for equality shared with MSU

Documents regarding Patricia Anderson’s fight for equality shared with MSU

The MSU Library Archives received an oral history of Patricia Anderson’s experience filing a discrimination lawsuit against MSU at the end of August this year. Anderson won the lawsuit and changed the workplace experience at MSU for future generations of women. In 1990, Anderson filed a suit with the