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Basnight Construction Pays Up
RALEIGH — Elizabeth City plumbing contractor James Morris said he expects to be paid this week almost $50,000 owed to him by Basnight Construction for subcontracting work he completed in July 2002. Morris has said he thinks that the political influence of Marc Basnight, president pro tempore of the N.C. Senate and president of Basnight Construction, made it difficult for him to collect the money. “I am thankful it is about over. I have been hesitant to believe it would work out this way. It seemed everything was stacked against me winning this lawsuit,” he told Carolina Journal.