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Jim Norman faces ethics hearing over $500,000 gift, home purchase

St. Petersburg Times

By Kim Wilmath, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Friday, February 3, 2012

TALLLAHASSEE — Sen. Jim Norman's lawyer says he hopes a hearing today before the Florida Ethics Commission will be the "final nail in the coffin" in a controversy that has dogged Norman for more than a year — the gift of a half-million dollar house to Norman's wife by a prominent Hillsborough County businessman.

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