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Contractor at center of Senate ethics probe pushes back against allegations

by TOM LUTEY Montana Free Press
| January 31, 2025 12:00 AM

A private contractor at the center of a Montana Senate ethics probe is pushing back against allegations of waste and abuse directed at the chamber’s former president, Republican Jason Ellsworth.

Stevensville resident Bryce Eggleston, in a deposition obtained by Montana Free Press, testified that it wasn’t Ellsworth’s call to divide into two contracts a $170,100 work agreement awarded to Eggleston.

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